I feel like this should unironically be a war crime. The potential for collateral is ridiculously high.
Edit: I’m amazed at how successfully this is being spun as a highly-targeted, high-precision attack with no collateral when it’s pretty much the opposite. You can’t control what they do with the pagers after they get them. Ffs there were kids killed.
I feel like this should unironically be a war crime. The potential for collateral is ridiculously high.
Edit: I’m amazed at how successfully this is being spun as a highly-targeted, high-precision attack with no collateral when it’s pretty much the opposite. You can’t control what they do with the pagers after they get them. Ffs there were kids killed.
I saw a post earlier on my mastodon mentioning this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Mines,_Booby-Traps_and_Other_Devices I do see “portable objects” mentioned, but given that the section is otherwise about stuff associated with children, I’m not sure if pagers would qualify or not.
Imagine if one of those pagers had been on a plane…
An ounce of high explosive won’t take down a plane. Even at cruising altitude.
It may not take it down but it would likely not end well. Also an ounce of certain explosives is a lot more destructive than others.
If the pilots each had one and they were sitting on the flight console when boom boom
I dunno, did you see the picture of what happened to the pager that was on the table? I could see that going through a few mm of aluminium.
Why would someone be holding their pager against the wall of a plane?
If you’re sitting in a window seat your pocket is pretty much against the hull.
That’s a horrifying thought. You are a gonner at that point