🇱🇧 Hundreds of pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday
🇱🇧 Hundreds of pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday in an apparent coordinated attack targeting Hezbollah members, killing at least 9 and injuring over 2,700.
Thousands injured in Lebanon as pagers used by Hezbollah explode
Thousands of people were injured across Lebanon on Tuesday when electronic pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah simultaneously exploded around 3:30 p.m., the group and Lebanese officials said, in what experts said may have been an unprecedented attack by Israel that possibly involved sabotaging the devices before they were delivered.
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The biggest Li battery that plausibly fit in a pager is a #16340. Those store 0.5-1 amp hour fully charged. A 1AH battery stores 5kJ when fully charged, about 1 watt-hour. Not all of that would be released and it's not a shaped charge so energy would dissipate into something other than the target.
— Alex Merz (@merz.bsky.social) September 18, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Seems like a miracle that none of the pagers were on an airplane.
— Jonathan M. Katz (@katzonearth.bsky.social) September 18, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Warfare in the 21C: Israel hacked pagers used by Hezbollah operatives and blew them up. Reports say thousands have been injured.
— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) September 18, 2024 at 12:05 AM