US President Donald Trump says that the US military used a mysterious new weapons system dubbed the “Discombobulator” during the operation to capture then-Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro in Caracas earlier this month, Trump tells the New York Post.

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump says.

According to Trump, the weapon “made [Venezuela’s] equipment not work,” suggesting that the system was used to disrupt the Venezuelan air defense and radar systems, allowing US forces to carry out the raid with near-impunity.

“They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us,” Trump tells the US news outlet.

The US president’s comments came after being asked by the press about recent reports that the Biden administration purchased a pulsed energy weapon that is suspected to have been used in Caracas.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      My guess:
      The kidnapping was arranged with some insiders in Venezuela. Why else would the US accept the vice president backed by the same powers that backed the president?
      Trump wasn’t told this, instead they made up something stupid to explain why it worked so smoothly. Trump is incredible uninformed, remember when a reporter showed him the video of the first ice killing and he hadn’t seen it before despite arguing about it?

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      10 hours ago

      Could also be a sonic weapon (LRAD). Effects of messing up equilibrium last longer than the (usual) microwave weapon