Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding

I don't know if this is true or not. Karoline Leavitt retweeted this story telling people:
"Stop what you're doing and read this!"

Does that mean it's true? No!

Because I spent the weekend watching videos about the Maduro capture, and I discovered that we are all currently living in a Tom Clancy novel.

Do you remember first reading Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising and wondering, Could this bullshit be true? Are we living in a sci-fi world that is being kept secret from us?

And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.

Is Leavitt confirming we really have a directed energy weapon that Delta Force uses to incapacitate people at a distance? Or is she just pushing this story because she wants Iran to think we have it?

So first, the directed energy weapon which may or may not exist, and which Karoline Leavitt may or may not be lying about to sow confusion about what we actually did do in Caracas:

The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood, during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.

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Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared -- "barely eight," by his count -- deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.

But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.

"They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."

What ensued, he said, was not a battle but a slaughter.

"We were hundreds, but we had no chance," he said. "They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute."

Well they are among the best-trained shooters in history. And they carry some really good guns. I have a video linked below about that.

Then came the weapon that still haunts him.

"At one point, they launched something; I don't know how to describe it," he said. "It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside."

The effects were immediate and horrific.

"We all started bleeding from the nose," he said. "Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon -- or whatever it was."

The White House did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether Karoline Leavitt's sharing of the post -- captioned, "Stop what you are doing and read this..." -- indicated the administration was verifying the veracity of the eyewitness account.

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The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.

"Those 20 men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us," he claimed. "We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it."

The military has had directed energy weapons -- which neutralize targets using focused energy such as microwaves or laser beams -- for years, but this could be the first time it's been used in combat by the US, an ex-US intelligence source told The Post. China reportedly used a microwave weapon in 2020 against Indian soldiers during a border dispute in Ladakh.

This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.

Now here are some of the things I saw claimed in various videos about the capture.

Some of this is confirmed by General Caine, in his post-action briefing. Some of it is speculative. I think people are asking AI to summarize what happened or what probably happened, and AI is offering possible scenarios, which are being claimed as fact.

But a lot of this at least seems likely to me. I'm sharing it because it's neat. I don't know if it's the truth. But it's a neat story.

1. General Caine said that CIA spooks were infiltrated into the country weeks before the invasion. He claims they were able to gather information and turn some spies to get a good picture of Maduro's "daily habits," including "what he ate."

One assumes they already had the layout of his presidential hidey-hole, because Trump revealed they went in with powerful blowtorches to cut through the steel doors of the panic room they knew he would run to. (They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room.) The Deltas practiced on a replica presidential building for months before the op.

2. This is one of the most jawdropping things -- the entire drug-boat interdiction operation was cover for the real mission of nabbing Maduro. The US needed to park an aircraft carrier (our newest super carrier currently in operation, the Gerald R. Ford) off the coast and flood the skies with surveillance planes and drones, to map out all of Venezuela's communications and their SAM missile arrays. They needed a plausible excuse for all of this US hardware in the region, and decided that the cover story would be hunting down speedboats carrying drugs.

So all of the drug-boat stuff was just window dressing for the real operation.

3. The drug-boat operation stuff also had another purpose, apart from cover and sigint collection and actually stopping the drug boats. The US wanted Venezuela's military and their radar operators to accept that there would be dozens and dozens of US planes in their airspace at all times. They wanted to get them to treat this as Situation Normal, No Big Deal. So the operation went on for 48 days, with Venezuela no longer on high alert just because there were 100 US planes in their skies. So on the night of the operation, they would have no idea that something big was in the air, until it was already all over.

4. The Nightstalkers (the US elite helicopter squadron) used modified Chinooks and Blackhawks with some stealth capability. Like, the helicopters have radar-absorbing skin. But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet. I think they crank out 100 decibels when moving. Because they would be flying nap-of-the-earth, anyone on the ground would hear them.

So this is pretty neat: The military couldn't make the helicopters any quieter, so instead, they made everything else noisier. They sent F-35 Lightning 2s screaming over Venezeula, diving down to the ground and then zooming back up in steep climbs, just to flood the countryside with jetwash and engine noise. Someone observed that the F-35s, which do have a good stealth ability, had all of their stealth sliders turned down so that they'd be all anyone could hear.

Some F-35s did use stealth, when they were actually attacking targets like the radar installations and Russian SAM trucks, but the US put 150 planes into the sky just to create an "acoustic shield" that would effectively create a dome of stealth for the helicopters.

In addition, all of those planes in the sky meant that Venezuelan radarmen had their screens packed with contacts and could not notice six or eight helicopters flying towards the military base at Fuerte Tiuna.

5. Ultimately US planes began attacking positions in the Fuerte Tiuna military base, mostly not for any direct tactical advantage, but just create chaos and confusion and noise.

While the operation killed at least 100 Venezuelan guards and Cuban mercenaries, it was pretty merciful, otherwise. When Venezuelan pilots scrambled to challenge the invading planes, they were told over the radios, in Spanish, "return to the ground or you will be destroyed." Most did. Some Venezuelan planes attempted to follow the helicopters as they flew back into international waters, but US pilots locked their missiles on them, and the missile-lock warning was enough to convince the pilots to turn around and return to their bases.

And this is just speculation on my part, but I think we were trying to convince Venezuela that if we took action against them, it would be a conventional amphibious invasion kind of thing. I think Trump warned that there would be land-based attacks on Venezuela just to prime them to expect that kind of attack. And I bet someone in the administration leaked it to Qatar agent Tucker Carlson that Trump intended an "invasion" of Venezuela, again, so that they were expecting a conventional land invasion rather than a smash-and-grab at the presidential headquarters.

Just amazing stuff, even if you don't believe the US now has some kind of weapon that can stun and incapacitate dozens of men at a distance.

Some videos: The military's use of a "sonic shield."

A video of how the operation might have happened.

A video about the helicopters, guns, and "spider-eyes" nightvision goggles that Delta Force used.

Our newest supercarrier, the Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in the operation. It cost over $11 billion but it seems to be worth it. A second aircraft carrier in the new Gerald R. Ford class, the USS John F. Kennedy, will be commissioned early in 2026. The Ford had a tough roll-out because it apparently employs 23 new technologies and some of them were buggy, but the John F. Kennedy is built with the lessons learned from the Ford and will hopefully be ready for action more quickly.

A big new innovation in both ships is that the catapults that launch the planes are driven by electromagnets, not steam as in the Nimitz-class carriers, and can launch planes more than twice as quickly as the older flattops.

posted by Ace at 05:26 PM

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