Donald Trump has revealed his secret weapon behind the operation to capture Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro.
A risky mission on January 3 saw American special forces swoop in on the president’s fortified compound in Caracas.
Despite heavy crossfire between the Venezuelan air defence and the US aircraft, the mission was successful, with Maduro and his wife transported to New York.
Now Trump has claimed that the mysterious weapon he calls ‘The Discombobulator’ disabled Venezuela’s rockets.
The US president said the new weapon ‘made [enemy] equipment not work.’
Speaking to the New York Post at the White House, he said: ‘The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it.
‘I would love to.
‘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 has previously admitted that his troops used a ‘secret sonic’ weapon, and he boasted that ‘nobody else’ has it.
Details about the supposed weapon are scant, but rumours of its nature have swirled since the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, claimed that Maduro’s guards were brought to their knees bleeding through the nose and vomiting blood.
One eyewitness said all of their radar systems ‘shut down without any explanation.’
Trump was asked earlier this week whether Joe Biden’s administration bought a so-called pulsed energy weapon similar to what has long been suspected of causing the ‘Havana syndrome.’
While not a pulsed-energy device, the US Navy uses directed energy weapons (DEWs), which can radiated chemical or electrical energy onto a target.
This causes physical damage that degrades, neutralises or defeats the enemy’s capability.
The Navy’s directed energy weapon arsenal includes high-energy lasers and high-power microwaves releasing radiofrequency waves, according to the Office of Naval Research.
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