Trump reveals the secret weapon that made Maduro's defense impossible in Venezuela. How the “discombobulator” worked
US President Donald Trump said in an interview that a secret weapon was essential to the success of the January 3 operation in which US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Trump said this mysterious technology disabled enemy equipment, allowing the raid to take place without American casualties.
Trump confirms the role of a “secret weapon” in the raid in Venezuela PHOTO: EPA EFE
In an interview with the tabloid New York Post, Trump explained that a weapon he calls a “discombobulator” was used during the covert operation in the Venezuelan capital. “The Discombobulator. I'm not allowed to talk about it“, he said in the Oval Office, according to News.ro. “I would like itTrump added, before confirming the use of this technology in the mission.
The US president reported that Venezuelan forces failed to use the defense: “They failed to launch the missiles. They had Russian and Chinese missiles, but they failed to launch any of them. We came, they pushed the buttons and nothing worked. They were ready to meet us“.
Trump spoke of the “discombobulator” in response to a question about another type of pulsed energy weapon said to have been acquired by the Biden administration that may be similar to the technology associated with “the Havana syndrome”. Concrete details about the weapon, however, remain classified.
Accounts from the field: downed systems and intense physical effects
Testimony related to the operation suggests that the effects of this weapon were dramatic for Maduro's defenders. A member of the guard team recounted that “suddenly all radar systems shut down without any explanation”. “The next thing we saw were drones, lots of drones, flying over our positions. We didn't know how to react“, he said, adding that US helicopters with about 20 soldiers later appeared.
According to the same witness, the “discombobulator” was aimed directly at the defenders. “At one point, they launched something; I don't know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sonic wave. All of a sudden, I felt like my head was exploding from the inside.”he reported. “We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even get up after that sonic weapon—or whatever it was“.
the word “discombobulator” comes from the English “to discombobulate”, a colloquial term meaning “to bewilder, confuse, or completely disorient”.
The context of the operation
The Jan. 3 raid in Caracas surprised the world in its scale and outcome: U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as part of federal drug and gun-trafficking charges, according to initial reports. Details of exactly how the capture was possible and the technologies used continue to raise questions internationally.
