From a tactical perspective this is absolutely wrong.
These attacks are wildly more precise than any weapon in our arsenal, or any theoretical weapon in our arsenal, because the targets are self-selecting.
This isn't "random explosions". These are effectively exploding a person's wallet.
The closest weapon we have to this is a specially designed inert missile that, rather than exploding, has spinning blades push from the casing. It is designed to take out single vehicles. It still kills everyone inside the car. I've now personally watched two videos of innocent civilians being completely unharmed from exploding peripherals that are not even 5 feet away. A sniper's bullet is more dangerous than this, because of just how far a .300 WinMag can over-penetrate.
More than random explosions, this is closer to deploying a platoon of ninja assassins.
Except since the cyber-warfare attack is utilizing the batteries, rather than a proper explosive, almost no one seems to have been killed in these attacks, only maiming.
Your last sentence is incorrect. If the pagers were spontaneously combusting then using a battery as a pyrotechnic device would be more credible, but if you've watched any of the videos it's clear that they're using some kind of high explosive.
I'm not going to completely dismiss the high explosives argument, but the level of masterful infiltration it would take to get into a communication device manufacturing process, to insert high explosives secretly, have none be discovered FOR YEARS, even by accident, and have it only sent to members of Hezbollah is so amazing it's fucking preposterous that anyone could pull it off.
It would be one of the greatest military supply chain attacks in human history, and frankly, I just don't think that the Israelis could possibly be that good. Frankly, it would mean that the Mossad has full knowledge of the entire logistical and personelle structure of Mossad. Which is absurd for an organization that has been fighting the Mossad and the CIA for decades.
It's on the same level of "The world trade center was detonated by thermite that was secretly installed on every pillar, of every floor, of both WTC 1 & 2 by the entirety of the NYPD and NYFD over the course of 10 years". It's so fucking difficult to keep that secret you'd be better of doing literally anything else and spending 1/1000th the money.
I find it far more likely that the cyber-warfare specialists figured out a way to force the lithium batteries to over-heat and explode by transmitting specific signals to these pagers and walkie-talkies. Hezbollah probably thought that these devices were so low tech, that it couldn't happen to them, but even low-tech stuff can be hacked (like how payphones used to be hacked by whistling).
Considering how often, or not often, these devices would be changed out or maintained, I would expect that if this were a bombing campaign, we'd be looking at thousands of exploding pagers in the local Lebanese dump. And then an entire radio shack blowing up in a violent explosion for the walkie-talkies. The pagers would be swapped out relatively quickly, but then the walkie-talkies wouldn't be.
Hell, that hypothesis would be closer to the spiked ammunition sabotage programs that most militaries try to use, but they typically can't even accomplish that at the weapon's factories. They have to plant pre-spiked ammunition onto battlefields and hope that enemy pick-ups scavenge it. Most militaries have no capacity to infiltrate an enemy supply chain to the extent the bombing hypothesis would require. It seems like way to difficult of a feat.
Oh look, Gizortnik arrives to defend the bad behavior of Jewish people once again. What a surprise. Who could have possibly predicted this unexpected turn in the discourse?
The Israeli military and "the jewish people" are not the same thing.
Cry about the fact that this is a good tactic to minimize collateral damage. Then recognize that it will be further used in future wars, and adapt to it.
Spreading bombs over a wide area and letting them intermingle among civilians is not a good tactic to minimize collateral damage, unless you want to compare it to the carpet bombing of evacuees Israel did a few months back.
Hezbollah blows up civilian areas and are terrorists.
The size and precision of the bomb matters, as I pointed out. A dumb bomb dropped from 30,000 feet onto Saint Lo could hit anyone. From what we've physically seen from security footage, the exploding devices are hitting their operators, and not even the people next to them. Most of the time, they are not even killing the operators.
I'm sorry that you are upset that you don't know how to do it to your unfortunate neighbors; but I see nothing here that counts as a terrorist attack, as the targets are a paramilitary target so far, and the collateral damage has been minimal if any.
From a tactical perspective this is absolutely wrong.
These attacks are wildly more precise than any weapon in our arsenal, or any theoretical weapon in our arsenal, because the targets are self-selecting.
This isn't "random explosions". These are effectively exploding a person's wallet.
The closest weapon we have to this is a specially designed inert missile that, rather than exploding, has spinning blades push from the casing. It is designed to take out single vehicles. It still kills everyone inside the car. I've now personally watched two videos of innocent civilians being completely unharmed from exploding peripherals that are not even 5 feet away. A sniper's bullet is more dangerous than this, because of just how far a .300 WinMag can over-penetrate.
More than random explosions, this is closer to deploying a platoon of ninja assassins.
Except since the cyber-warfare attack is utilizing the batteries, rather than a proper explosive, almost no one seems to have been killed in these attacks, only maiming.
Your last sentence is incorrect. If the pagers were spontaneously combusting then using a battery as a pyrotechnic device would be more credible, but if you've watched any of the videos it's clear that they're using some kind of high explosive.
I'm not going to completely dismiss the high explosives argument, but the level of masterful infiltration it would take to get into a communication device manufacturing process, to insert high explosives secretly, have none be discovered FOR YEARS, even by accident, and have it only sent to members of Hezbollah is so amazing it's fucking preposterous that anyone could pull it off.
It would be one of the greatest military supply chain attacks in human history, and frankly, I just don't think that the Israelis could possibly be that good. Frankly, it would mean that the Mossad has full knowledge of the entire logistical and personelle structure of Mossad. Which is absurd for an organization that has been fighting the Mossad and the CIA for decades.
It's on the same level of "The world trade center was detonated by thermite that was secretly installed on every pillar, of every floor, of both WTC 1 & 2 by the entirety of the NYPD and NYFD over the course of 10 years". It's so fucking difficult to keep that secret you'd be better of doing literally anything else and spending 1/1000th the money.
I find it far more likely that the cyber-warfare specialists figured out a way to force the lithium batteries to over-heat and explode by transmitting specific signals to these pagers and walkie-talkies. Hezbollah probably thought that these devices were so low tech, that it couldn't happen to them, but even low-tech stuff can be hacked (like how payphones used to be hacked by whistling).
Considering how often, or not often, these devices would be changed out or maintained, I would expect that if this were a bombing campaign, we'd be looking at thousands of exploding pagers in the local Lebanese dump. And then an entire radio shack blowing up in a violent explosion for the walkie-talkies. The pagers would be swapped out relatively quickly, but then the walkie-talkies wouldn't be.
Hell, that hypothesis would be closer to the spiked ammunition sabotage programs that most militaries try to use, but they typically can't even accomplish that at the weapon's factories. They have to plant pre-spiked ammunition onto battlefields and hope that enemy pick-ups scavenge it. Most militaries have no capacity to infiltrate an enemy supply chain to the extent the bombing hypothesis would require. It seems like way to difficult of a feat.
Oh look, Gizortnik arrives to defend the bad behavior of Jewish people once again. What a surprise. Who could have possibly predicted this unexpected turn in the discourse?
The Israeli military and "the jewish people" are not the same thing.
Cry about the fact that this is a good tactic to minimize collateral damage. Then recognize that it will be further used in future wars, and adapt to it.
Oh hey, how's those tunnels in New York City?
Spreading bombs over a wide area and letting them intermingle among civilians is not a good tactic to minimize collateral damage, unless you want to compare it to the carpet bombing of evacuees Israel did a few months back.
Hezbollah blows up civilian areas and are terrorists.
Israel blows up civilian areas and are _____.
Jewish and therefor immune to criticism you filthy anti-semite.
The size and precision of the bomb matters, as I pointed out. A dumb bomb dropped from 30,000 feet onto Saint Lo could hit anyone. From what we've physically seen from security footage, the exploding devices are hitting their operators, and not even the people next to them. Most of the time, they are not even killing the operators.
I'm sorry that you are upset that you don't know how to do it to your unfortunate neighbors; but I see nothing here that counts as a terrorist attack, as the targets are a paramilitary target so far, and the collateral damage has been minimal if any.