Sorry to hear that, I almost bought one but couldn’t justify the flagship price… Glad I didn’t :/
Sorry to hear that, I almost bought one but couldn’t justify the flagship price… Glad I didn’t :/
Since this targets explicitly combatants
Hezbollah is, also, a political party. It’s military wing was formed to fight the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
So would you say it’s using violence to instill terror and achieve political goals?
My point is that the lithium battery angle is a diversion and isn’t even relevant.
Turkey literally said they were willing to intervene if the conflict further escalates.
And if Israel bombed Lebanon, it wouldn’t matter whether Hezbollah is state sponsored or not. They would be attacking Lebanon’s sovereignty.
Israel could have leveled a block in Lebanon like they do in Gaza, but they didn’t.
They absolutely cannot, not without expecting a similar, if not bigger, retaliation from Lebanon, Iran, Insarhallah, and probably Turkey.
Lithium batteries can ignite, but they don’t just explode like that.
These pagers don’t use lithium battery.
The front usually doesn’t fall off.
They are still very common in hospital settings. Those things are reliable as fuck.
Pagers are very common in hospital settings, they are reliable as all hell, cheap, and don’t produce EMI.
Yeah or even more in-depth than weighing them xraying devices is pretty trivial, specially a small device like a pager that fits on a dental x-ray machine.
Well yeah, specially since the Apollo Gold pagers don’t use lithium batteries.
Gold Apollo lists AA, FWIW
Power from a single AA alkaline battery (plus lithium backup battery).
EDIT: The AP-900 uses AAA.
And yeah they absolutely are legit and are used all over the industries that still use pagers (hospitals are big big one in part because of their reliability and lack of EMI).
Another interesting point about them is that they are:
UL-certified for use in hazardous locations
Confirmed by Reuters as well: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-we-know-so-far-about-deadly-pager-blasts-lebanon-2024-09-17/
Images of destroyed pagers analysed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo, a Taiwan-based pager manufacturer.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DABU2Aisg_V/ (the account, SpyCraft101, is ran by Justin Black, an author and historian of espionage)
Graphic Warning: the link also contains cctv footage of some of the devices exploding and injuring/killing people.
You don’t. If you’ve seen the videos this are clearly high explosives. These devices were interdicted by Mossad long ago and triggered remotely.
I know some people who swear by their tablets… I’d imagine for them having only one device is pretty enticing