Pentagon's Plans for Directed Energy Weapons

Well, Secretary of War Hegseth just got a live

demonstration of directed

energy weapons. He says the Pentagon intends to buy tens

to hundreds of

these in the coming years. It's the first known viewing of a directed

energy weapon

demonstration by a sitting war secretary.

So what are they? Directed energy weapons fire concentrated

energy at the

speed of light, and for years, intelligence officials working abroad have

reported

brain injuries known as Havana Syndrome.

The condition could be linked to directed energy weapons.

And earlier this week, we spoke to Emmy Award-winning

investigative journalist

Catherine Herridge, and she says the domestic threat is

very real. Take a look.

But I think this idea that there aren't domestic attacks

and that they haven't

targeted civilians is, is just not correct.

It's not borne out by the evidence.

And again, the trend that I'm seeing is that the cadence of attacks

inside the United States, I think, has escalated.

My information is only anecdotal, but I do believe

that the four years under the Biden administration where we said,

"There's nothing

to see here. There's no novel weapon.

There's no foreign adversary," I think this was a tremendous disservice and

emboldened those who are behind it.

Joining us now, former Top Gun Navy fighter pilot Matthew

"Wiz" Buckley and South

Pole whistleblower Eric J. Hecker. Great to see you both.

So Eric,

you know, Catherine told us also that she has heard, uh,

potentially there are

these attacks that have happened outside the executive office building in

Washington, DC, which is right next to the White House.

So for many people who don't understand what these weapons do,

and they're freaked out by them, how do they work?

I guess you would say it's an extension of Tesla technology, the ability to move

energy from, uh, point A to point B, uh, without the

conventional means of, you know, warheads and things like that.

Uh, a standard weapon delivers an explosion,

but through a conventional means.

Um, it's a payload. So instead of having the conventional

method of delivery,

directed energy weapons just deliver that explosive force sometimes,

uh, from point A to point B wirelessly.

That's one, one method. Directed energy weapons

is a very large umbrella term.

Mm-hmm.

So make no mistake, it's a, it's a varied arsenal.

And you can't see it, so it's... it feels like it's almost impossible to

defend

against it. We'll get to that in a second.

So Wiz-

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