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? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/March.

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The contents of the War tuba page were merged into Acoustic location on February 11, 2017 and it now redirects there. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see its history.

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

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

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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