23 minutes ago, sportsfan41 said:

I guess when you said mass produce I took it as Mass distribution as well, selling them to everyone and then hoping they get into the right people's hands. As old as pagers are, I'd bet this has been done in the past but not on this level. 

Yeah, I'm sure these were well targeted. 

They may have even decided which ones to blow up based on the traffic on them. 

I just watched a video of one of them going off in a supermarket.  Ouch.

1 hour ago, theguru said:

I just watched a video of one of them going off in a supermarket.  Ouch.

Yeah, lots of good stuff on Twitter/X.

Now handheld radios, used by the same group, blew up today.

6 minutes ago, Jumper_Dad said:

Now handheld radios, used by the same group, blew up today.

Wow.

What does this mean for the future, are we humans safe carrying/owning any electronic device.

5 minutes ago, theguru said:

Wow.

What does this mean for the future, are we humans safe carrying/owning any electronic device.

This is where my mind went too. 

1 minute ago, theguru said:

Wow.

What does this mean for the future, are we humans safe carrying/owning any electronic device.

It's always been a possibility. I doubt Hezbollah is very stringent about their screening of imported electronics they plan to utilize for terrorism. I bet that changes now though. Also, it's gotta make Hezbollah really question what else has been compromised, vehicles, computers, electronics etc.

Israel has long been respected and feared for their calculated craftiness and unwavering fortitude to see things through. I think people are being reminded of that now. 

3 hours ago, theguru said:

Wow.

What does this mean for the future, are we humans safe carrying/owning any electronic device.

I'm guessing these all had a small explosive put in them. Short of that, malware may overheat your device someway but, it's not going to explode.

1 minute ago, Jumper_Dad said:

I'm guessing these all had a small explosive put in them. Short of that, malware may overheat your device someway but, it's not going to explode.

I mostly agree with you on our devices but as technology improves I assume the ability to do harm will improve. 

With Beepers and now the Radios blowing up, this sounds like something Q would have cooked up for  Bond movie.

Article I read this morning said they were rigged with PETN. Who knows how or whether that had been confirmed. 

US announces more troops being sent to the region.

An unknown number of unknown military assets from an unknown branch of the US military is being sent to an unknown area for unknown reasons.

I'm hoping it Naval and not ground forces. 

I listened to a report where America is taking some F18's off of carriers and putting them on land bases.  Additionally, we are sending more F22's to the area.

We are definitely getting ready just in case. 

Iran preparing to attack Israel with ballistic missiles soon. US has said they will help defend Israel from the attacks. 

I think we have two carrier battle groups nearby plus at least a partial Air Force Air Wing in the area.

It is probably a little early to say this but at some point I could see Israel nuking Iran.