• Circra [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Absolute horseshit. If the US is good at anything it is building new ways to mutilate and murder. If acoustic weapons were feasable we'd have some press conference explaining why boiling Cubans/Iranians/Venezualans brains in their skulls with the navy's shiny new freedom ray is actually a good thing.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      The US already has sonic weapons. The way they work also doesn't fit at all either for this story, or Havana syndrome. The idea that the Chinese navy could drive a sonic weapon close enough to an American aircraft carrier to crash a plane is patently ridiculous.

      • techpun [any]
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        3 years ago

        Chinese noise laser causes F35 pilot to crash because they were vibing too hard to the beat

    • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Not that this would stop the US but aren't weapons designed to permanently make someone deaf or blind a war crime?

      Which is why there are funny rules about lasers or something

      • Circra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They'd probably state the intended purpose is something else, it just coincidentally causes blindness or deafness. Bit like with white phosperous.

        • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          This is why shooting lasers at cops is perfectly fine. The intent is not to blind them, it's actually to burn them alive