Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160711184711/@comment-25936766-20160903012253

MiniDaggers wrote:

@Someone: Isn't a flashbang a different thing that uses sound (hence bang) in addition to light to disorient opponents? Not sure what just light on it's as a weapon to dazzle people is called but eh. I'm no expert, so take this with salt, but I understand that a flashbang is a grenade or similar that causes a strong flash when exploding. The bang is the explosion. It's noisy, but it's not designed to be used with the purpose of sound-based disorientation.

It's like with guns: They can be pretty noisy, old guns especially so, with bangs so loud some modern experts have compared the bang when firing some of them, like the original muskets, to a plane taking off. But in the end, even those old, noisy guns were not designed with the intention of deafening anyone.