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Microwave weapons?
djacobow:
New York Times says the unexplained US embassy sicknesses in China and Cuba could have been microwave weapons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html
What is the EEvblog consensus on this? I have to say that though I know such weapons probably exist, I'm very surprised that the embassies were not equipped to detect such weapons. I mean, it's not like wideband antennas and SA's don't exist. And unless those beams are really focused to human head size (seems hard to do from a van parked outside) then there would be ample signal to detect, right?
If the beams really are tight, I guess you could issue staff personal radios to alert when microwave energy over a certain power level is present. This could even be done pretty cheaply, I'd think.
coppercone2:
this might have been a botched espionage attempt to overcome tempest protections, not a intentional weapon to cause a stir
they probobly would have bombed the fucking thing if they wanted to cause a stir, cuban goverment is nuts
Or more reaslistically some kind of odd infection, virus, allergen that people there were exposed to by chance.
amyk:
kreosan on YouTube has made a "microwave weapon" before and shown what it does. The symptoms of the people in the embassies don't match up. If it was a microwave I'd expect intense heat and burns too.
coppercone2:
The number one thing is motive. Why would you use a secret weapon on a embassy? Russia is sparse with using weird weapons, maybe to assassinate dangerous spy-leakers and stuff.. but to terrorize a building?
0xdeadbeef:
Maybe they are mixing up microwaves with (ultra-)sonic waves. For most people a wave is a wave ;)
Still, this whole story doesn't make a lot of sense anyway. It's like a thousand times more likely that they got some kind of infection in their hotel/apartment house or it's a psychosomatic thing.
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