Okay, this is wild.
It kind of LOOKS like the Israelis set up a dummy company in Hungary which licensed a trademark from a company in Taiwan in order to produce exploding electronic devices to sell to Hezbollah.
Yikes.
My question is still.
If they used nitrite based explosives, even in very small quantity, did none of those ever fly on a commercial airplane? Now I know many airports don't have robust explosive screening. But most do, and if you fly out of a country with bad detection, ya still got to fly home.
So reports of inserting explosives don't make sense..
Maybe some low grade non nitrite explosives ???
Who knows? Could've been a different compound, could've been hermetically sealed or something, I suppose. Clearly, no red lights lit up in any airports.
@mcfate @corlin Maybe sealed into the battery? It would make assembly very simple. Make a fairly simple modification to the pager's logic: A preset sequence tells the pager to short out the battery; the battery heats up, detonates the charge.
Airport security people must be petrified. Li-ion batteries were already trouble enough. IDF isn't the only organization that could engineer something like this.
@ImagineThat @corlin
I'm skeptical that there are many organizations that could engineer the production of bogus pagers and walkie-talkies using multiple shell companies spread across multiple countries.