[swores]

Hard to guess if that means the reporting is based on propaganda to make Russia look bad vs. US agencies not wanting to admit to the world that Russia has a weapon they can't yet protect against. Both seem equally plausible to me.

[ein0p]

For this to be “equally plausible” you’d first have to offer a plausible hypothesis of how such a weapon could operate. Last time this came up nothing even remotely plausible was offered.

[swores]

I'm no expert on weaponry but isn't there a long history of countries inventing weapons that other countries assumed weren't possible until they saw their use?