The reports findings are similar to those of anotherreport released by the National Academiesin 2020.
Neither report is definitive, and their authors dont address who targeted the embassies or why they were targeted.
High-power microwave weapons are generally designed to disable electronic equipment.
But as the Havana syndrome reports show, these pulses of energy can harm people, as well.
The directed high-power microwaves damage equipment, particularly electronics, without killing nearby people.
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A news report about the U.S. Air Force’s high-power microwave anti-drone weapon THOR.
They were enabled by the development ofpulsed powerin the 1960s.
The development of this technology led to a subset of the U.S.-Soviet arms race a microwave power derby.
Dozens of countries now have active high-power microwave research programs.
The human head acts as a receiving antenna for microwaves in the low gigahertz frequency range.
This would be consistent with a high-power microwave weapon located at some distance from the targets.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on December 10, 2020.
