MUMBAI: With piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali reaching alarming proportions, the Indian Navy, which has been in action against the brigands for the last three years, has begun installing a device on its warships that literally scares the hell out of hostile elements.
The Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), as it is called, shouts, threatens and warns in a variety of languages.
Sources told India Strategic defence magazine that the system is being installed on most of the naval ships as it can automatically translate warnings into several languages, depending upon the choice of the captain and the region his vessel is sailing in
The device has been seen on the destroyer INS Mysore and on INS Satpura, the Navy's second indegenously built stealth frigate that was commissioned recently.
