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A sailor in the US Navy uses a long-range acoustic device on board a boat

Sneaky US Navy feedback device could stop people being able to speak

24 August 2021

A non-lethal device developed by the US Navy aims to surreptitiously render people unable to speak by beaming their own voice back at them with a tiny delay

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