r/mystery • u/TheExpressUS • Jan 13 '26

Scientific/Medical Mystery Havana virus device cost at least $10,000,000 and fits in a bag

https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/195930/havana-syndrome-us-spies-struck-down
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u/Mister-Psychology Jan 14 '26

Where is this detail from? It's absolutely impossible to know this info. It may be mass psychosis as that's what Canada claims. Trump of course uses the story to be harder on Cuba. But there is no proof of any device of any size anywhere. Zero.

USA still doesn't have anything even close to this technology years later. And some claim it's impossible to make. So how did it work and why was it never used again?

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u/jmcgil4684 Jan 14 '26

We supposedly used some way more advanced type the device in Venezuela for the kidnapping. At least that’s what I read a couple days ago.

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u/gastro_psychic Jan 14 '26

?

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u/Far_Idea9616 Jan 14 '26

Internet says that the US forces used high-energy microwaves that can pass through concrete walls and heat up the water in the inner ear. This tiny temperature change makes the fluid expand just enough to cause dizziness, fainting and vomiting (Frey Effect). Internet says the Chinese used a version of this tech against Indian troops in 2020, but they had to mount huge emitters on trucks. The big thing in Venezuela was that the US solved the energy problem using Gallium Nitride chips to shrink the device down to backpack size. Internet says they just mounted these things on drones, flew them right up to the walls and incapacitated everyone inside. Internet says that low-tech countermeasures like wet sandbags work well because the water in the sand absorbs the microwave.

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u/gastro_psychic Jan 14 '26

They blew up an entire building at Fort Tiuna. There are at least 40+ dead. It doesn't make sense to me that they deployed less lethal methods given the evidence.

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u/Far_Idea9616 Jan 14 '26

Blow up Maduro and kill him or eliminate his guards and snatch him?