Possible to trigger at battery explosions in pagers ?

[Andy Chee]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/dozens-of-hezbollah-members-wounded-after-pagers-explode-in-lebanon

https://www.timesofisrael.com/several-killed-thousands-hurt-as-wave-of-pager-explosions-strikes-hezbollah/

[globoy]

The NYT (also probably paywalled) is reporting they were Gold Apollo AP924 (among other) pagers and Israel added explosives and a trigger next to the battery.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-pagers-explosives.html

For me anyway, the Gold Apollo website is unresponsive but I think it looks something like the following image.

[coppercone2]

I think its safe to say that you can't pin this one on a lithium ion battery, so there is no need to throw away you iphones

[shabaz]

Unfortunately this article is behind a paywall.

What usually works for FT, is to google the article title with 'ft twitter' appended to it, then click on the twitter/X result, and then it opens that FT page article without their paywall.

For instance, googling for that article, leads to this twitter URL: https://twitter.com/ftworldnews/status/1836109408788517296
and by clicking on the link in there, will open the article (at least it does for me).

[Bud]

So what does the Taiwanese manufacturer say?

[coppercone2]

So what does the Taiwanese manufacturer say?

there was a small defect in one of the subassemblies

realistically they have nothing to do with it. I doubt they just sold it to that group. It probobly went through a complex resale chain. They have nothing to do with it. I have a feeling everything that ends up there is super laundered.