The Ministry of the interior announced a tender for the supply of non-lethal acoustic effects, which are mostly used to disperse the demonstrators. The announcement of the competition published on the website of public procurement, the attention it drew, the lawyer of Fund of fight against corruption Love Sable.
It comes to the supply device, the starting contract price – 5.1 million rubles. In the terms of reference, which published a Sable, is the purpose of the device.
“The system of non-lethal acoustic impact on the trailer is designed to create certain behavioural responses in the lawbreakers by remote formation internetcacheentry fluctuations that affect the Central nervous system,” the document says.
The product at a distance of 60 meters affects the organs, “using their non-linear properties, by the formation of distant internetcacheentry fluctuations that affect the nervous system.”
Judging by the description, we are talking about long range acoustic device (Long Range Acoustic Device, LRAD). Such devices are used openly in the U.S. at least since 2009, in particular, they were used to disperse the demonstrators in Ferguson. As reported by “Russian planet”, the device “emits a loud directional sound, which is almost impossible to tolerate”. It was emphasized that such devices are used for peaceful purposes, for example, to keep the birds away from planes.
At the end of 2015, it became known that in 2016 superstructure in five times increased the volume of rocket-propelled grenades to disperse mass demonstrations. In addition, the Center on counteraction to extremism of the interior Ministry will get high-tech systems for tracking.
