‘Splodey Walkie-Talkies?
It just gets more fun.
The brand of allegedly exploding Hezbollah walkie-talkies is Icom, model IV-V82. Icom is a Japanese company, still active in the handheld radio market. Only one small detail: They stopped making that model of walkie-talkies ten YEARS ago. Also stopped making replacement batteries.
Icom exported its IC-V82 two-way radio to regions including the Middle East until October 2014, when it stopped making and selling the devices, the Osaka-based company said in a statement Thursday. It has also discontinued production of the batteries needed to operate the main unit, it said. The company earlier had warned customers that almost all IC-V82s on the market are counterfeit.
Oops… that’s gonna make backtracing them difficult.
From a supply chain viewpoint, someone has a very slick operation going on if they are making them – they would have to reverse engineer the circuit boards, modify the battery units where the explosive was allegedly secreted, probably even have to acquire injection molds for the housings. More likely is that someone acquired a bunch of counterfeit units and modified them.
Among the many outstanding questions is how explosive materials were planted in the devices. If the Icom walkie-talkies are genuine and manufactured a decade ago, it’s likely they were modified well after sale to their original customers. The company can’t determine if the walkie-talkies are its own, but said the exploded devices appear to lack the hologram labels attached to its products.
Supposedly hundreds exploded. Make that a very, very slick operation. No holograms? Almost certainly no one in Icom had anything to do with it.
Icom won a contract in the 1990s to supply the U.S. Department of Defense with transceivers.
Okay, that may be a bit less than comforting. But unless they were acquired from a third party, they are probably OK. I’d still think inspections are in order, hmmm?
The company’s shares rose 2.6% amid a broad rally in Japanese stocks. Time
Category: Israel, Middle East
Killing off senior leadership and discouraging basic methods of communication is gonna leave a mark.
You know some people got fuss and bitch and cry and moan. FUCK EM!!
Is that a message from / about the Harris campaign???
The company’s shares rose 2.6%.
LOL! BRAVO!
Not only would one have to reverse engineer the circuit (as best as possible) for the basic and some of the advanced features (wouldn’t expect to be able to duplicate them all), but some of the ICs would most likely be proprietary and not COTS. So, BRAVO to the shop behind the copy cats.
It may be proprietary but when you’re dealing with the Mossad, anything is possible.
Mossad usually speak softly, but they do have a booming voice.
They should have rebranded them as Sploderolas
“This tape will self {cause} destruct in 5 seconds…”
They found a secondary battery manufacturer who makes batteries packed with energy. They only last a second but your transmission can be heard all the way to Hell.
When Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics sold them the radios, he explicitly asked them if they wanted the rust proof/non-exploding option, and they declined. He assured them that these radios were “da bomb”.
Hezbollah investigators traced the explosions to users not ending their transmissions with “Over”, over.
I think “Out” would be more approprate.
Station Mike Oscar Wun leaving the net, and earth, at this time, out.
I’m thinking Hezy IT is going to hold the feet to the fire on next year’s cyber security training. Like literally.
Don’t plug just any USB drive into your laptop that you think has some first rate goat porn on it until you run a scan disc on it.
That’s a locker pin-up for the Hezi-slamofascists.
Deep Goat
Over, Oveur…and don’t call me Shirley.
Are you going into Airplane Mode on us?
New cellphones on the market to replace “throw aways”.
They’re called “blow aways”.
Gives new meaning to “burner’ phone
Got to be like 40 years or so, our Dept. wanted to go the cheap way on handelds so they bought Ritron handhelds and they were so bad, we called them shitrons. We get a 2 story taxpayer job in the corner building and after the K/D, one of the Dep. Chiefs pops up at the window on the # 4 side and starts to talk into the shitron and the chief on the street can’t hear shit so he yells up to the chief on the second floor to talk louder and the chief screams into the mike so all of us below can hear him. That was the end of the shitrons and after that, the dept went to Motorolas and has been using them since. Shitrons and water didn’t mix to well either…
RIM SHOT
Dat’s a good one.
I understand the call that did it was, “breaker 1 9, this is detonator. How copy over?”
Loud and clear.
Since it appears that Mossad didn’t infiltrate the beeper supply chain because they WERE the supply chain, the same may apply to the ‘splodey w/t’s…
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/09/in-re-op-grim-beeper.php
I appreciate AOCs efforts to try to use US intelligence to support Hezbollah. However Congress doesn’t need an accounting of the attack since no US assets were involved and the SEC State and SECDEF have both said unequivocally they didn’t know a thing. Not only that but US Intel community sold away any credibility they had for short term political gain between the phony Russian Dossier and the Biden laptop letter years ago
AOC is a maroon…bugs said so😎
Bugs for President!
My eyes aren’t what they used to be… looking at that picture of the radio while on my phone and without zooming in, I would swear it says “boom” on top.
It says ICOM. The “I” is stylized with a small circle attached to the top of the I.
RGR… yeah, thanks. I got that once I zoomed in.
Magnification works wonders.
It was done the same way helicopters are able to fly…MAGIC.
PFM… IYKYK
I heard long ago the true secret… Helicopters don’t fly. They’re so ugly, the Earth repels them.
They beat the air into submission.
They are easy to modify. I configured mine with a MARS mod and they work perfectly. Aviation VHF are absolutely the best, fantastic backup radio.
I have used an A6 for Black box searches and it works incredibly well. The terrorist got a superb radio with great reception. Really great reception.
Mossad: ” Can you hear us now, oy vey…”
Pretty soon they’ll be forced to use Baofeng hand held radios. At least if you lose it or it craps out on you (or explodes), you’re only out a few bucks.
I think the baofeng has a bigger battery too. Something to keep in mind. And Chinese stuff is so fucked up and unreliable. Who would know if you swapped a couple parts out to make them go bang.
Imma just leave this here…
Gender Afirming communication received
Shootie-bangs!
Breaking news from Al Jazeera….
That’s some stuff that would have made James Bond himself jealous!
Don’t let your dingle-dangle mingle with the dirt!
Mop up your dingle-dangle. Now you wear a skirt.
The report I read said there were about 1900 crotch injuries from the pagers with about 900 causing permanent genital damage. So, there are some Heziboleans that won’t be reproducing. Good, Good. I guess it pays to keep your pager in your back pocket, instead of next to Deez Nuts.
If only they were Acme brand
https://youtu.be/OPwPo-IAQ-E?si=93LYfDUOEJbS4wNp
Some asshole named Hack from Bethesda was just on The Chris Plante Show (WMAL Washington DC) talking about the exploding comm gear. Someone needs to take him out with blowtorches and pliers.