The banshee riot-control grenade?

Leela25 · Global Moderator

The banshee riot-control grenade?

-airfoil- · Veteran Member - Level 3

Hmm, and its called a "banche"? Strange, I don't recall anything with this particular name, but there are a few devices that can create unbearably high frequencies.

TMK-2 · Veteran Member - Level 1

Hi Leela, its called the "banshee". The grenade itself is still in the design stage and has not been made yet. If I remember correctly the outer shell is made of rubber and it creates a loud pulsing sound to scare away mobs and protesters.

Stingray · Administrator

Fixed spelling error.

I actually remember reading this in a magazine too, and it was Popular Science!

Here is an article on it I found online:

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-03/does-gadget-guru

The Banshee is a 3-ounce rubberized acoustic grenade inspired by the notorious 1993 riots in Mogadishu. It disperses unruly crowds with an ear-piercing 130-decibel squeal, and is just one of countless ideas percolating inside the brain of Fariborz Bzorgi, a senior staff engineer at the�Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.