The directed high-power microwaves damage equipment, particularly electronics, without killing nearby people. Directed energy microwave weapons convert energy from a power source – a wall plug in a lab or the engine on a military vehicle – into radiated electromagnetic energy and focus it on a target. But as the Havana syndrome reports show, these pulses of energy can harm people, as well.Īs an electrical and computer engineer who designs and builds sources of high-power microwaves, I have spent decades studying the physics of these sources, including work with the U.S.
High-power microwave weapons are generally designed to disable electronic equipment. But the technology behind the suspected weapons is well understood and dates back to the Cold War arms race between the U.S. The report doesn’t clear up who targeted the embassies or why they were targeted. A committee of 19 experts in medicine and other fields concluded that directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy is the “most plausible mechanism” to explain the illness, dubbed Havana syndrome. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power microwaves, according to a report released by the National Academies. The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. Air Force microwave weapon is designed to knock down drones by frying their electronics.
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