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Serbian officials are denying that the country’s security forces illegally used a military-grade sonic weapon to disperse and scare protesters at a huge anti-government rally in the capital a day earlier.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protest-sonic-weapon-8502587e5849997175a5ea02f98d2e19


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[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 18 points 12 hours ago

Yah lolz so those thousands of people who heard and felt a freight train coming at them/a jet plane falling on them which was all caught on video from like 100 different angles were just having a mass hallucination

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago

They got hit with something, sonic based or not, and they admittedly have one in the arsenal so...

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 10 points 14 hours ago

Illegal Sonic Weapon Attack is my favorite drum and bass DJ.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago

Must've been moses.

Serbian government....probably

[–] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago

Was it a microwave weapon then?

[–] itspatato@lemm.ee -5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Only a state actor would have this type: Russian or Belarus

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

BS. Dozens of countries have them and the US has used them in the past on protests already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon