Eight-figure sums have left taxpayers' pockets.
With the largest military budget in the world (over a trillion dollars requested by D. Trump for 2026), the U.S. plans to fund a number of costly projects, including the development of hypersonic weapons, the construction of military ships, and the already heavily criticized Iron Dome air defense system.
There was also a surprise — among the acquisitions of the Department of Defense was an unusual cannon, rumored to cause the so-called 'Havana Syndrome', a painful condition that U.S. and Canadian diplomats working abroad encountered ten years ago.
The investigation into this mysterious phenomenon ended without any conclusions at that time, and those incidents had begun to fade from memory. However, they suddenly caught the attention of the Pentagon (still during the administration of J. Biden), which allocated an unnamed number of millions of dollars ('an eight-figure sum') to one of the divisions of the Department of Homeland Security for the acquisition of this weapon during a secret operation.
Research on the obtained device has been ongoing for over a year. According to a source at CNN, the cannon emits pulsed radio waves that allegedly caused the 'Havana Syndrome'. The findings of a study published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry suggest that this may involve 'reactions to environmental factors and stress responses grouped under one label'.
As a result, the mysterious device may either help clarify the situation or the Pentagon will once again spend millions of American taxpayers' dollars on highly questionable research.
