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Protestor-proof: Sound cannon, trenches in place
The Morning Standard
|February 15, 2024
EVEN as the farmers struggled to breach the barricades at the Shambhu border in Haryana’s Ambala for the second straight day on Wednesday, 190 km away at the Singhu border, the Delhi Police continued to man the borders by digging big trenches alongside the road and deploying Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) to disperse the ryots in case they make it to the national capital.
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A long-range acoustic device, commonly known as sound cannon, is a specialised loudspeaker that produces a high pitch-unbearable sound. The device weighs between 6.8 kg and 150 kg and can emit sounds of up to 152 decibels.
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