Sonic and ultrasonic weapons are directed-energy weapons of various types that use sound to injure or incapacitate an opponent. Some sonic weapons make a focused beam of sound or of ultrasound; others
A long-range acoustic device (LRAD) in use on the USS Blue Ridge
An NYPD officer stands ready with the LRAD 500X at an Occupy Wall Street protest on November 17, 2011 near the city hall.
A directed-energy weapon is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential appl
Sonic weapon
…Sonic and ultrasonic weapons (USW) are directed-energy weapons of various types that use sound to injure or incapacitate an opponent. Some sonic weapons make a focused beam of sound or of ultrasound; others produce…
Police car equipped with an LRAD-500X sonic weapon (Warsaw, Poland, 2011)
A Viettel V-EMP/S land-based microwave weapon, being marketed as a high-powered drone countermeasure.
A Pischal-Pro anti-drone rifle, featured at the Dubai Airshow, 2019
Members of the Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems Program Office of the US Navy, fire a laser through a beam director on a Kineto Tracking Mount, controlled by a MK-15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System