Sound Cannon

Besides the Vortex Gun and Wind Cannon, invisible and powerful air waves were used in another devise designed by scientists at Lofer, in the form of the so-called "sound cannon." Designed by Dr. Richard Wallauschek, the cannon consisted of large parabaloid reflectors, the final version of which had a diameter over 3m. The "dishes" were connected to a chamber composed of several sub-units firing tubes.


The function of these tubes was to allow an admixture of methane and oxygen into the combustion chamber, where the two gases were ignited in a cyclical, continuous explosion. The length of the firing chamber itself was exactly a quarter of the wavelength of the sound waves produced by the on-going explosions. Each explosion initiated the next by producing a reflected, high-intensity shockwave, and so creating a very high amplitude sound beam. This high and strong note of unbearable intensity was emitted at pressures in excess of 1,000 milibars about 50m away. This level of pressure is above the limits that man can endure. At such a range, half a minute of exposure would be enough to be lethal. At longer ranges (about 229m), the effect would be excruciating and a soldier would be incapacitated for some considerable time afterwards. No operational or physiological tests were ever carried out. It was suggested, however, that laboratory animals were used to prove the basic soundness of the concept. The cannon was never deployed for its intended purpose.
Toward the end of World War II, the Germans were reported to have made a type of acoustic device. It looked like a large cannon and sent out a sonic boomlike shock wave that in theory could have felled a B-17 bomber. In the mid-1940s, the U.S. Navy created a program called Project Squid to study the German vortex technology. The results are unknown. But Guy Obolensky, an American inventor, says he replicated the Nazi device in his laboratory in 1949. Against hard objects the effect was astounding, he says: It could snap a board like a twig. Against soft targets like people, it had a different effect. "I felt like I had been hit by a thick rubber blanket," says Obolensky, who once stood in its path.

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[plokko1]

the images you are showing from the WW2 were rudimental radars (before the actual radar was invented),they were used to ear the planes before they can actually see them:

yeah pretty rudimental and stupid concept but worked.

The only "sound cannon" that works is the "vortex cannon",inutilizable for combact but great for youtube videos.

[S1mPLyAngEL]

it's a big juke box LOL

[trgrz123]

@operationaurora no that is the active denial thing

[skifhnt]

если в россии такое и появится, первым делом его автоманьяки вместо сабов поставят

[operationaurora]

um 0:28m is a sattelite on a us hummer

[lonestarskywatcher]

awesome sub woofers...need dat for my 4X4.....just laughing to replace the horror of the new technology that will someday be the fense around this prison planet....we should laugh for now and enjoy every minute of freedom while they chip away at it...LOVE, COURAGE...

[Triple88a]

1k milibars is 1 atmosphere so thats 14.7 psi on top of the standard atmosphere. In other words the pressure on your body from this device with the information given in the description would be the same as the pressure you'll feel if you're 33 feet underwater without a suit.

[discopoe]

@Triple88a Yeah, some kind of strange, isn't it? O_o

*lol*

[5ky5tr1d3r]

@iamjacobnz Not quite...You won't hear any sound when it works,and it works at frequency where probably nothing in world can't hear it.... So i won't consider that a sound device :)

[iamjacobnz]

@5ky5tr1d3r You mean it is a sound gun, emiting in an inqudible frequency, which people have given a fany name???