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An Air Force laboratory spent $15 million to build THOR in cooperation with engineering firm Verus Research as well as BAE Systems and Leidos.

Other types of sonic assault. russia is considered the main communication base. i'm joined by nbc's ken delaney. >> russia was always a leading suspect because russia operates in force on the island of cuba as does china. the cubans were suspect as well, but now it looks like there's some evidence pointing to russia including these communications, interce intercept, and the u.s. has determined that some type of microwave weapon may have been used in a way that made people think they were hearing sounds. that's why initially this was described as a sonic event but there's science that shows tha...

They sent signals that they will not be absent not only from cuba, but venezuela and the region. this is coming at a time when russia is much more aggressive and acting without impunity around the world. you have the nerve agent acts in london and the cyber attacks on our election systems in eastern europe, and the provocative military exercises happening now, and the largest in recent modern memory, and eastern russia, and so, this is another demonstration. if it proves to be right, and if josh's reporting is correct that the russians have taken another step to use asymmetric attacks to effec...

Really, there was only three suspects. russia, china and the cubans. the russian and chinese intelligence services operate in force in cuba. it's still believed it's possible some element of the cuban intelligence services cooperated with this. the other interesting thing we're reporting here is one of the technologies used to injure these american spies and diplomats was some kind of microwave weapon that is so sophistica sophisticated, the americans don't fully understand it. they've been testing some kinds of aspects -- >> kind of reverse engineering? >> absolutely. you know, the military h...

What technologies were used here, they think they understand more about that. a sophisticated microwave technology was used. russia has always been a likely suspect. russia, china, cuba. and now they're moving closer to saying it was russia, they're not ready to definitively pronounce that russia did did. that's why some of these calls for sanctions may be a little premature. >> go we have? and is it the same group of people that are investigating what it is? it's a sonic attack of some sort? >> it's not a sonic attack. the victims thought they heard sounds. that's why initially it was describ...