1928 newspaper wth illustrated essay PREDICTING a DIRECTED ENERGY GUN in WARFARE

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1928 newspaper magazine with an illustrated essay PREDICTING invention and use of a Directed energy gun (here called a "RADIO WAVE GUN")  in WARFARE - in essence this is a very early "directed energy" weapon (kind of like a laser weapon, circa 1928 !!)
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inv # 7T-212
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL Sunday NEWSPAPER magazine section from the
Sioux City Journal
(SD) dated June 24, 1928.
This newspaper magazine contains a back page
headline, illustrations and prediction of RADIO WAVES used as a WEAPON OF WAR in the aftermath of WW I
. Is this a prediction of today's
"HAVANA SYNDROME" ?
This was in essence an early "directed energy" weapon (kind of like a laser weapon, circa 1928 !!)
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves and particle beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices.
In the United States, the Pentagon, DARPA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, and the Naval Research Laboratory are researching directed-energy weapons and railguns to counter ballistic missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicles. These systems of missile defense are expected to come online no sooner than the mid to late-2020s.
In 1935, the British Air Ministry asked Robert Watson-Watt of the Radio Research Station whether a "death ray" was possible. He and colleague Arnold Wilkins quickly concluded that it was not feasible, but as a consequence suggested using radio for the detection of aircraft and this started the development of radar in Britain.
Havana syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms reported by United States and Canadian embassy staff in Cuba dating back to late 2016 as well as subsequently in some other countries, including the United States.
In 2017, Donald Trump accused Cuba of perpetrating unspecified attacks causing these symptoms. The U.S. reduced staff at their embassy to a minimum in response. In 2018, U.S. diplomats in China reported problems similar to those reported in Cuba, as did undercover CIA agents working in other countries with partner agencies to counter Russian covert operations.
Subsequent studies of the affected diplomats in Cuba, published in the journal JAMA in 2018, found evidence that the diplomats experienced some form of brain injury, but did not determine the cause of the injuries. While there is no expert consensus on the cause of the symptoms, a co-author of the JAMA study considered microwave weapons to be "a main suspect" for the phenomenon. U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine expert committee concluded in December 2020 that microwave energy (specifically, directed pulsed RF energy) "appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases among those that the committee considered" but that "each possible cause remains speculative." The U.S. intelligence services have not reached a consensus or formal determination on the cause of the Havana syndrome, but unnamed sources in intelligence and two presidential administrations have expressed suspicions to the press that Russian military intelligence is responsible.
Interestingly, the front cover of this magazine contains a large color poster-like display of a woman fighting an alligator in a jungle swamp. This scene appears to be very similar to a famous scene from KATY PERRY's music video of her hit song, "ROAR".
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