I heard this update on NPR this morning. One thing that confused me was that my understanding of the "sounds" in the original reports is that they weren't actually audible. The theory was that...
I heard this update on NPR this morning. One thing that confused me was that my understanding of the "sounds" in the original reports is that they weren't actually audible. The theory was that these were microwave attacks which happened to generate the experience of a high pitched sound in the victim (along with other effects).
At the bottom of the article, they link to the one from 2018 that I'm remembering.
The US military also researched weapons applications of microwaves, with the air force winning a patent on an invention shown to beam comprehensible speech into an adversary's head, according to the Times.
Navy researchers explored the use of the Frey effect to induce sounds powerful enough to cause painful discomfort, and even immobilize the subject, it said.
The Times said it is not known if Washington deploys such weapons.
I heard this update on NPR this morning. One thing that confused me was that my understanding of the "sounds" in the original reports is that they weren't actually audible. The theory was that these were microwave attacks which happened to generate the experience of a high pitched sound in the victim (along with other effects).
At the bottom of the article, they link to the one from 2018 that I'm remembering.