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November 4th, 2005 @ 5:27 pm

Sound Bombs

Taipei Times - archives

The removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip opened the way for the military to use air force jets to create dozens of sonic booms by breaking the sound barrier at low altitude, sending shockwaves across the territory, often at night.

Palestinians liken the sound to an earthquake or huge bomb. They describe the effect as being hit by a wall of air that is painful on the ears, sometimes causing nosebleeds and “leaving you shaking inside.”

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now, i have to admit
that i have always wanted to experience a sonic boom
not from inside a concord or jet, but up close and personal low flying plane breaking the sound barrier and body shaking wall of air and sound that it entails
but thats just me

By justin in crazy-in-tar-webs | TB

3 Responses to “Sound Bombs”

  • having served in the IDF for 3 years, let me tell you that a so called “rubber bullet”, is NOT something you’ll want to get hit by. it is actually a potentially lethal armament. to make it less deadly it is fired as a cluster of 3 pallets, so the energy is dispersed between them (but also making it impossible to actually aim them). a head injury by one of these can very much kill you.
    that’s why they are only used as a last resort, when the soldiers are in a life threatening situation. (and if you’ve ever seen one of those crowds up close - thousands of people hurling rocks at you, having to cower behind the armred Hummer doors, knowing that you are the last line between that angry mob and a peaceful bordering israeli town - well… it sucks.)

    the whole point of getting all the people out of the Gaza strip was to stop them killing our civilians and troops.
    the problem is that this made the impression that the terrorist groups (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, etc) have wond and drove us out of there, thereby empowering them and giving them a strong sense of security.

    and about those sonic booms?
    i don’t see any news about the israeli towns being constantly bombarded by rockets and mortar shells almost every day.
    i would imagine them having slightly worse problems than scared children.

    By Oren Hadas November 5th, 2005 at 12:16 pm

  • it almost seems as though the above comment was from a robot seeing as how i didnt even say anything about rubber bullets, i dont wanna get shot with one of those, if you are not a robot, leave another comment?

    By justin November 5th, 2005 at 12:20 pm

  • ahem, that’s what happens when you write such a long comment that you decide to copy & paste to another blog…

    and btw, distant sonic booms is something so common in Israel, that everykid knows them. it’s the very close ones that scare you. actually, it sounds exactly like a close lightning strike (a wall of air hitting the building and rattling the windows).

    By Oren Hadas November 8th, 2005 at 7:32 am