Trump claims that a secret weapon was used to help capture Maduro.
President Donald Trump stated that the United States utilized a weapon he referred to as a discombobulator to capture the then-president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, this month, but a senior U.S. official said he is likely confusing different tools used by the U.S. military.
The discombobulator, I am not allowed to talk about that, Trump told the New York Post in an interview published on Saturday, although he added that it caused the [enemy] equipment to stop functioning during the capture.
The president might be combining various capabilities into a single weapon that does not exist, a senior U.S. official told CNN. U.S. forces did use cyber tools to disable early warning systems and other Venezuelan defenses during the operation, and also employed existing acoustic systems to disorient ground personnel.
The U.S. Armed Forces have also had a heat ray weapon for years, called the Active Denial System (ADS), which uses directed and pulsed energy. It is unknown if this was also used.
CNN previously reported that the ADS, according to the U.S. military, is a non-lethal weapon that fires an invisible beam of electromagnetic waves that can reach just over half a kilometer. It penetrates human skin and creates a sensation of heat that causes people to move away from the beam.
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