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.
I heard from another source they used graphite bombs “A graphite bomb, often called a “blackout bomb” or “soft bomb,” is a non-lethal, conventional weapon designed to disable electrical power grids without destroying the infrastructure or causing high casualties. It works by releasing a dense cloud of fine, chemically treated carbon filaments over electrical installations like transformers and power lines.”