Impossibly mangled
Try it. Put an engine block into a bonfire. It will never do this; it will never self-mangle and distort this way, insta-rust like this. Not enough energy is input. The open-air fire can not get hot enough. This kind of damage requires a different kind of energy from a different kind of weapon, a focused energy beam weapon.
Impossibly crumpled
Thin-walled metal, not heavy-load bearing, not visibly exposed to fire or collision, somehow crumpled as if imploded.
Strange “melt-thrus”
Not collision damage. No visible fire damage. It’s as if the metal was weakened, withered, melted.
Impossibly self-untwisted
Steel cable tends to rust-together its strands; it does not tend to self-untwist. The partial and incredible untwisting of all steel cable at this and other DEW Attack sites is its own unique hallmark. One explanation is that material boundaries (each strand in this case) allow self-repulsive, molecularly-dissociative forces to self-disintegrate the material (down to nano-dust as in the case of the WTC in NYC on 911).
Impact cracking
Fractured, cracked edges are damage due to kinetic energy from impact. The molten, crumpled, wrinkled, imploded damage is not due to impact. Lack of soot — anywhere — indicates no massive fireball. Metal takes a long time to melt in a any fire, even a blast furnace.
Wiring uniformly damaged throughout
This may be related to the self-untwisted steel cables, but the tension vs the RF impedance of the copper wiring is such that it burns, vaporizes before untwisting. Internally-vanished copper wiring (leaving the “snakeskin” sheath/jacketing is very common in DEW Attacks).
No soot from fire; paint not even burned away
Weakened fragment field
The many small pieces and chunks makes the debris look more like the plane was weakened (by metal jellification due to intense microwave exposure), already coming apart in mid-air, and then smashed, and with the fragments then rehardening.
Always the flaps
The flaps are uniformly melted away in DEW crashes. No soot, no fire. No reason to “burn” or melt other than fringe material exposed to microwave energy.
