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60 Minutes: We've Had the Havana Syndrome Weapon for More Than a Year
Hot Air ^ | 13 Mar, 2026 | John Sexton

Posted on 03/14/2026 7:45:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 03/14/2026 7:45:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I wonder if a tin foil hat would shield your noggin?


2 posted on 03/14/2026 7:45:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Foil blocks microwaves, so yes. But you’d have to cover your entire head and that’s if it works on the brain and not the peripheral nervous system.


3 posted on 03/14/2026 7:52:39 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no prrobkem)
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To: MtnClimber
A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain.

The first thing I wondered on reading the above sentence was how the backpack guy shields himself from the effects of the weapon. Maybe he does wear a tinfoil hat.

4 posted on 03/14/2026 8:18:20 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MtnClimber

Havana was a mass hysteria. Wives hated the place. They and diplomats were malingering and putting in for fake disability. Very lucrative.


5 posted on 03/14/2026 8:25:22 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: MtnClimber

The Gru is Russia’s military intelligence, the competent intelligence agency, compared to the KGB/NKVD/FSB:


6 posted on 03/14/2026 8:26:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain.”

How did it only affect those people at one table? And why do that in public? Story makes no sense.


7 posted on 03/14/2026 8:26:26 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

The first thing I wondered on reading the above sentence was how the backpack guy shields himself from the effects of the weapon. Maybe he does wear a tinfoil hat...........

The electromagnetic waves/ppulses/beams are highly directional. In the late 1980s, DARPA gave a briefing at Ft. Knox discussing such a device that could be assembled from off the shelf components, powered by a motorcycle battery and packed in a large briefcase or small suitcase. It could reduce electronic equipment to junk and un-alive anyone in its path.


8 posted on 03/14/2026 8:30:12 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan ( )
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Maybe. I’d still want a good sturdy double-thickness tinfoil hat if I were the guy with the backpack.


9 posted on 03/14/2026 8:39:53 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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anybody can make a redneck version of one of these by laying a microwave oven on its back in with the door open and the safety switch defeated and the on/off button bypassed ... better stand way back though when plugging it in, and it’s likely to piss off the neighbors and draw quick attention from the FCC and the like ...


10 posted on 03/14/2026 8:41:31 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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There is probably some shielding in the backpack itself to prevent the energy affecting the operaror. Plus, since they say its working distance can be up to 300 feet, its directional, so its not just bathing every direction with the same amount of energy.


11 posted on 03/14/2026 8:56:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Some may have put in fake reasons to leave Havana. But this article proves the ones injured were attacked, with evidence of an acquired physical weapon and Russian videos of American targets in different worldwide locations having the weapon used on them.


12 posted on 03/14/2026 9:01:10 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I know the current consensus seems to be microwaves, but I think some of the symptoms are closer to the effects of high-power ultrasound.


13 posted on 03/14/2026 9:05:46 AM PDT by StevenWH
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I’d go infrasound not ultrasound. But yeah. A lot less power required


14 posted on 03/14/2026 9:18:52 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/microwave-power-transmission


15 posted on 03/14/2026 9:31:11 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“In JPL 30 kW power was transmitted for 1.54 km with reception conversion array having an efficiency of 80%.”

“Experimental results on animals exposed to microwave radiation indicated that irreversible tissue damage occurred at power densities of about 100 mW/cm2.”


16 posted on 03/14/2026 9:34:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“Foil blocks microwaves, so yes. But you’d have to cover your entire head and that’s if it works on the brain and not the peripheral nervous system.”

I use a cellphone hotspot.

It still works if I put the cellphone into a covered Farberware pot.


17 posted on 03/14/2026 9:38:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Nope... it was a giant scam that spread through the State Department... then the “monkey see, monkey do” thing kicked in and suddenly it was everywhere. It started in 2017 at the height of the Russia Russia Russia hysteria. And their “disability” was handsomely rewarded financially.

Mass psychogenic illness. Like Salem, or the Dancing Disease in Medieval times. Total bull scat.

They even offered Iphone recordings of the ultrasonic sounds they could “hear”. LOL... it was crickets.


18 posted on 03/14/2026 9:54:29 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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Wait... what’s that noise? I’m putting on a claim... call Art Bell!


19 posted on 03/14/2026 9:55:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: from occupied ga
Foil blocks microwaves, so yes. But you’d have to cover your entire head and that’s if it works on the brain and not the peripheral nervous system.

What happens in vagus stays in vagus.

20 posted on 03/14/2026 9:58:04 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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