OFF: Re: HW Sonic Attack -Reply

[J Strobridge]

> On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Rob Stuckey wrote:
>
> >     If I remember correctly, there was research done by Germany
> >    in WW1 or WW2 into a weapon which could use Ultrasonics to
> >    disable enemy troops.
>
>         Dear Rob,
>                   affirmative: don't know what they did in Germany, but
> similar work was being done in Japan. There was a lot of Allied worries
> about a Japanese `deathray', but by the surrender it could still only
> kill a rabbit at 300 yards after half an hour... I assume this was
> ultrasonics, but I could be wrong. Thought you might be interested anyway,
>                                     JAZZA

hmmmm - now that reminds me of reports I've heard that the big
transmitters on the high windswept moors of northern England someplace
have been known to gather a collection of dead pigeons or other birds
in the vicinity all knocked out by the microwaves......

Mebbe?

jill

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