Talk:War tuba

A fact from War tuba appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the name Japanese War Tuba was a name applied to the acoustic locators used by Japan during World War II?

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Sonic Weapon?

Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The paragraph on sonic weapons seems misplaced here. The Japanese War Tuba was a sensor for detecting the presence of aircraft. It had no application as a weapon, nor was it designed to produce sound. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 132.79.14.16 (talk • contribs) 18:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Agree entirely. That material belongs in the (existing) article Sonic weaponry, which the author may not have been aware of. I added a {{mergeto}} tag, with the corresponding tag on the other article. MCB 21:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Change article name?

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This topic seems to be a little narrow for an article. The Japanese "war tuba" was only one of many acoustic locators that were used by numerous nations between World War 1 and 2 to detect incoming enemy aircraft by sound. Pictures of others can be seen at Commons Category:Sound locators. The British used concrete sound mirror dishes; pictures can be seen at Commons Category:Denge acoustic mirrors. I suggest expanding this article to cover all these interesting devices and renaming it something like Acoustic aircraft detection. It could also be merged into Sound location, but that is a pretty broad article and covers sonar, bat echolocation, and seismic surveys as well. --Chetvorno^TALK 10:20, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

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