Exploding pagers

Mountain said:
garandman said:
No dog in the fight: UU claims to have the highest percentage of military veterans of any religion. That may be because Christian religions are so splintered. Military surveys identify anywhere from 12 to 220 religious groupings.
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I'm poking fun a bit at the UU church, basic NES BSing. I do like the concept of an open minded faith based organization. IMHO wars over religion seems silly, though it's really about control of territory and resources. All war is. What I don't like about the UU church is that it's a magnet for moonbats.
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When my uncle joined up, the Sergeant all but forced him to select something for his religious affiliation, so he went with UU as the option least offensive to his sensibilities (He was informed that choosing None/Undecided/Atheist would be a CLM).

There were just a few dozen choices when he went in, today there are 221! Of these the single most popular option is "no religious beliefs", at 23% of current service members (As garandman mentioned, despite being nearly 3/4 of the total headcount, Christians are divided amongst dozens of sects).
 
Kevin_NH said:
When my uncle joined up, the Sergeant all but forced him to select something for his religious affiliation, so he went with UU as the option least offensive to his sensibilities (He was informed that choosing None/Undecided/Atheist would be a CLM).

There were just a few dozen choices when he went in, today there are 221! Of these the single most popular option is "no religious beliefs", at 23% of current service members (As garandman mentioned, despite being nearly 3/4 of the total headcount, Christians are divided amongst dozens of sects).
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Ditto for me. They didn’t want you to leave it as Commies were Atheists….
 
Kevin_NH said:
When my uncle joined up, the Sergeant all but forced him to select something for his religious affiliation, so he went with UU as the option least offensive to his sensibilities (He was informed that choosing None/Undecided/Atheist would be a CLM).

There were just a few dozen choices when he went in, today there are 221! Of these the single most popular option is "no religious beliefs", at 23% of current service members (As garandman mentioned, despite being nearly 3/4 of the total headcount, Christians are divided amongst dozens of sects).
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Clm?
 
Zappa said:
Nice! [thumbsup]

nypost.com

How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah — and even X-ray machines

The batteries inside the weaponized pagers that arrived in Lebanon at the start of the year, part of an Israeli plot to decimate Hezbollah, had powerfully deceptive features and an Achilles’ …
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A thin, square sheet with six grams of white pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive was squeezed between two rectangular battery cells, according to the Lebanese source and photos.

The remaining space between the battery cells could not be seen in the photos but was occupied by a strip of highly flammable material that acted as the detonator, the source said.
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This three-layer sandwich was inserted in a black plastic sleeve, and encapsulated in a metal casing roughly the size of a match box, the photos showed.

The assembly was unusual because it did not rely on a standard miniaturized detonator, typically a metallic cylinder, the source and two bomb experts said.
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Since explosives and wrapping took about a third of the volume, the battery pack carried a fraction of the power consistent with its 35 gram weight, two battery experts said.

“There is a significant amount of unaccounted for mass,” said Paul Christensen, an expert in lithium batteries at Britain’s Newcastle University.

At some point, Hezbollah noticed the battery was draining faster than expected, the Lebanese source said.

However, the issue did not appear to raise major security concerns – the group was still handing its members the pagers hours before the attack.
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And yet, the battery, labelled LI-BT783, had a problem: Like the pager, it did not exist on the market.

So Israel’s agents created a backstory from scratch.
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approached about three years ago by a former employee, Teresa Wu, and her “big boss, called Tom” to discuss a license agreement.

Hsu said he had scant information about Wu’s superior, but he granted them the right to design their own products and market them under the widely distributed Gold Apollo brand.
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The chairman said he was not impressed by the AR-924 when he saw it, but still added photos and a description of the product to his company’s website, helping give it both visibility and credibility.


There was no way to directly buy the AR-924 from his website.
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And in two online forums devoted to batteries, participants discussed the power source, despite its lack of commercial availability: “I know this product,” a user with the handle Mikevog wrote in April 2023.

“It’s got a great datasheet and a great performance.”

Reuters could not establish the identity of Mikevog.
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The effectiveness of the pagers and radios can't be understated. For an intelligence organization to kill 30 and make 3000 ineffective is unheard of. Even a full military operation with those kind of results is a victory of epic proportions.
 
namedpipes said:
How so?
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You think the solution to deal with your political disdain is to systematically assassinate members of the left? Are you a ten year old? I ask this earnestly: has your brain fully developed?
I’m Israeli and what Mossad did was absolutely brilliant and amazing. But the suggestion to use the same practice on our own members of government is some of the most asinine and churlish dogshit.
 
Rivers556 said:
You think the solution to deal with your political disdain is to systematically assassinate members of the left? Are you a ten year old? I ask this earnestly: has your brain fully developed?
I’m Israeli and what Mossad did was absolutely brilliant and amazing. But the suggestion to use the same practice on our own members of government is some of the most asinine and churlish dogshit.
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I wasn't aware that Israelis have absolutely NO SENSE of humor !! Too bad you don't have any interest in the USA and it's survival after 4 years of the IDIOT president !!!

To close: MEH !!!!
 
Rivers556 said:
You think the solution to deal with your political disdain is to systematically assassinate members of the left? Are you a ten year old? I ask this earnestly: has your brain fully developed?
I’m Israeli and what Mossad did was absolutely brilliant and amazing. But the suggestion to use the same practice on our own members of government is some of the most asinine and churlish dogshit.
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The person you were chiding was making a joke, not advocating assassination. My comment was, figuratively speaking, a dope slap to you. Jesus. Pull your head out of the dark place.
 
rewster said:
I wasn't aware that Israelis have absolutely NO SENSE of humor !! Too bad you don't have any interest in the USA and it's survival after 4 years of the IDIOT president !!!

To close: MEH !!!!
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did you watch the 60 min piece, when asked about selling the pagers the Mossad guys said "They got a fair price" [rofl][rofl][rofl][rofl]
 
Rivers556 said:
You think the solution to deal with your political disdain is to systematically assassinate members of the left? Are you a ten year old? I ask this earnestly: has your brain fully developed?
I’m Israeli and what Mossad did was absolutely brilliant and amazing. But the suggestion to use the same practice on our own members of government is some of the most asinine and churlish dogshit.
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Um… I’m not against it.
 

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