Sooner or later, we will find out how they did this. There has to have been an explosive planted in the device, no way did the battery alone do this.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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Some research earlier today suggested that some specific model may even have alkaline batteries, which are less thermal runaway-ey than lithium ions.
I'm just seriously impressed that someone could get enough explosive into the package and still have a functional pager that didn't set off alarms.
My dad had an on call pager back in the day that ran on AA batteries.
This has some more details about how it was supposedly done.
If you watch the videos it's definitely an explosive
The fact they all went off around the same time makes me think explosives too. If it was just a fucked up battery, I think they would have more random with when they all exploded.
Apparently they were modified to at the production level with explosives. Crazy stuff.
The more clandestine version of selling burner phones pre bugged like the wire. Reality is surprising all the time
Wouldn't it be easier to divert a shipping container on a truck out of the factory, make the changes, seal everything back up and have it delivered? The hardest part would be making sure that the driver is your guy?
"Frog in the hole!"
"Don't you mean fire in the hole?"
Crazy Frog starts playing from device
"No."
Idk if I like the idea of grenades with DMX ringtones
That characteristic sound you hear associated with falling bombs in movies and such was originally a noisemaker on World War II German dive bombers and bombs intended to intimidate soldiers on the receiving end.
https://www.slashgear.com/1370552/stuka-siren-ju-87-noise-explained/
As well as saving the Stuka from early retirement, it is thought that Ernst Udet also suggested its most famous feature — the siren (some sources say that this was an intervention by Hitler himself). The sirens were fitted to the legs of the plane's fixed undercarriage. They were driven by propellers that spun in the airflow, and could be activated and deactivated from the cockpit.
The psychological effect of the siren was best explained French general Edouard Ruby, who reportedly said that on hearing the terrifying wail, his infantrymen "cowered in the trenches, dazed by the crash of bombs and the shriek of the dive bombers." But many Stuka pilots also didn't like them. The sound was just as audible in the cockpit of the Stuka as it was to forces on the ground, and the bulky sirens added weight and reduced the speed of the already slow bomber. Reportedly, some squadrons fitted simple air whistles to the Stuka's bombs instead, creating the famous "falling bomb whistle" that Hollywood still insists that all ordnance makes as it plummets to earth.
Both the Stuka's terrifying wail and the falling bomb whistle became so famous that they have since become standard stock sound effects in movies, used whenever any airplane dives at high speed or any bomb is dropped. But, unless you're old enough to have been on the battlefields of Europe in the very earliest days of WWII, these are sounds that you'll only ever hear in movies now.
Stuka dive sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzv-8pJSqY
Falling bomb whistle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlsHYKkmHoI
Maybe one could do the same thing with grenades.
Drop a bluetooth speaker blasting baby shark.
Or a loud ringing it's the same thing as a flashbang right?
Hezbollah had crotch rockets, but they were cheap Chinese made dirt bikes. What a day this has been.