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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 28 points 1 day ago

"Frog in the hole!"

"Don't you mean fire in the hole?"

Crazy Frog starts playing from device

"No."

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago

On the newest episode of the podcast Call Me Back with Dan Senor you can hear Nadav Eyal say that the shipment was intercepted and explosives were installed.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

My dad had an on call pager back in the day that ran on AA batteries.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/528326/israel-planted-explosives-in-hezbollah-s-taiwan-made-pagers-sources-say

This has some more details about how it was supposedly done.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

If you watch the videos it's definitely an explosive

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

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?

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The more clandestine version of selling burner phones pre bugged like the wire. Reality is surprising all the time

[–] wick@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idk if I like the idea of grenades with DMX ringtones

[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

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.