This is what happens when a know-nothing reporter consults know-nothing guests to provide bogus information.

The Eric fellow is completely mistaken to refer to directed energy weapons as "Tesla Technology." Tesla was not working on this technology at all. The "Havana Syndrome" suspected weapon could be directed microwave, which would essentially be a small, portable radar system. Old technology, never worked on by Tesla. The air vehicle destroying weapon was an infrared laser, whose technology has been developed from the 1970s onward, in the open. Tesla was vehemently opposed to the quantum physics utilized in the development of lasers, which was first invented in 1960, 17 years after Tesla died.

They are conflating two very different weapon concepts in their discussion. It is perfectly reasonable for the DoW to say they weren't sure what the Havana Syndrome was, since they probably didn't know. The technology for the "discombobulator" is still unidentified. It is very likely to be an acoustic weapon, not a radiation weapon. To say that the U.S. government has "rogue agents" running around with such devices is sheer fantasy.

None of this has anything to do with UFOs.

Hegseth is spot on about getting more mobile tactical lasers available. They are to drones as a bug zapper is to bugs. Fizzle and sizzle.

It is a pity that they haven't developed a variant of the Manned Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) Stinger missile with a blast warhead instead of a fragmentation warhead. Less expensive than a Patriot missile by about two orders of magnitude. Fragments might miss a small target, but a high-overpressure blast and a small miss distance would slap it out of the sky. Ultimately, they will need to develop a portable microwave weapon to fry the drone avionics, in order to defend against them in foggy or smoky weather. (Basic limitation of a laser weapon: if you can't see the target, you don't know how to shoot at it, and the beam intensity would be cut down by water or particles in the air.)

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth this week observed demonstrations of directed energy weapons, or DEWs, and said the Pentagon will be scaling up. Former U.S. Navy pilot Matthew “Whiz” Buckley tells “Katie Pavlich Tonight” the technology represents a cheaper alternative for the U.S. military to eliminate threats such as drones: “Your enemy can bankrupt you, so we have to deploy these lasers.”

steel beams melting in the 9/11 video - dissolving into thin air. those were DEW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

YAL-1 first official flight was in 2002.

I worked for a company that built and stored a cooling system for that aircraft.