Belgrade, Serbia: sonic wave attack during protest (March 15th, 2025)
Belgrade, Serbia: sonic wave attack during protest (March 15th, 2025)
Belgrade authorities have used sound weapons on the crowd of protesters. The video description has some educational links.
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Honestly, we avoided a massive tragedy at that moment. People described that it sounded like a car or airplane was coming at them at full speed, so they instinctively ran away from the roads. People further away didn't see or hear anything, they just saw a crowd running in panic and so they ran as well. I was maybe 50-100m away from where it happened, and all we heard was noise, yells, and then people running, so the people around me also started running, but we all stopped after maybe 5s.
A lot of people think that our overlord wanted to cause a stampede which would lead to thousands of injuries and just chaos in order to discredit the protests. Or maybe they wanted to launch the cannon after the 15 mins of silence were over, which would cause mass confusion since nobody would have any idea what was going on, but triggered it early. In any case, the psychopath used an illegal weapon to attack people literally standing still and being quiet.
Pne of the most sliky, pathetic strategies.
- use the sound cannon
- stampede
- many people injured
- protest are now illegal bc safety
Hoch die internationale Solidarität from Germany! (Raise high international solidarity/Cheers to international solidarity.)
How would you fight that tech?
If by "fight" you mean "defend" … You can build a shield to reflect it: https://www.vice.com/en/article/audio-engineers-built-a-shield-to-deflect-police-sound-cannons/ Details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rnaSvs_WMYmlymEBa2R8fFxBu4apEjH4uX9lRcib1ZM
Btw, this is about microwave weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg_aUOSLuRo
I bet guns would work
"Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination."
- Lucy Parsons
Surely it's not as simple as ear plugs.
It’s why I’m asking. People should know how to combat this.
My understanding of this is that it is caused partly by bone conduction. It might be possible that closing your ears by pressing frimly on your "tragus" or on the "mastoid process" could reduce the associated effects. The mastoid process is where the jaw meets the ear.
Fortunately once people are aware of such tricks, they won't be effective anymore
@europe would earplugs work for this?
Here's an educational video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKTBQBugIA
Sound is moving air and carries energy. With the right frequency and intensity it could definitely physically fuck you up even if your ears are covered.
Wikipedia:
Studies have found that exposure to high intensity ultrasound at frequencies from 700 kHz to 3.6 MHz can cause lung and intestinal damage in mice
Nope. It's a sonic weapon, not loud speaker.
LRADs are loudspeakers. Loudspeakers which can output in the order of 160db at 1m. Anything can be a weapon when you make it powerful enough.
Technically, yes. A bullet is just a fast moving object.
I was refering to sheer power of the thing. Guy asked if earplugs would help. LARD gets a tree swinging. It's not "just a speaker" at that point.
@europe might have to read more about this but I thought sonic weapons were also able to destroy your eardrums right