A Japanese handheld radio manufacturer has distanced itself from walkie-talkies bearing its logo that exploded in Lebanon, saying it discontinued production of the devices a decade ago.
At least 20 people were killed and 450 injured after hundreds of walkie-talkies, some reportedly used by the armed group Hezbollah, exploded across Lebanon on Wednesday.
The devices, according to photos and video of the aftermath of the attack, appear to be IC-V82 transceivers made by Icom, an Osaka-based telecommunications manufacturer.
But Icom says it hasn't produced or exported IC-V82s, nor the batteries needed to operate them, for 10 years.
It is the second Asian company to be embroiled in bombing incidents in Lebanon this week, after thousands of exploding pagers seemingly linked to Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo killed at least 12 people and injured more than 2,000.
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 64 pts · 1y
I bet Lebanon got "a sweet deal" on some "old stock" of pagers and radios they couldn't pass up.
girlfreddy@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 1y
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 1y
Credit where it is due. Those genocidal motherfuckers are scary as hell.
EDIT: I understand the downvotes. Nobody, including myself, wants to say anything positive about the current Israeli regime or their industrial complex of death. Fuck those guys. That said, this op and the discipline it must have taken to keep it under wraps until just the right moment is impressive and VERY scary.
girlfreddy@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
All true. The Mossad have been considered one of the most effective and efficient agencies in the world ... and terrifying in their single-mindedness to eradicate every Muslim on the planet.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Has Israel/Mossad ever actually called for the eradication of all Muslims? I know Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Egypt, etc. have all called for and actively tried to eradicate Israel (and many of them have/do call for the eradication Jews in general), but I'm not aware of Israel doing the same.
girlfreddy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
No, but some/many Israelis have been calling for the killing of Arabs (and Christians) for years.
leftytighty@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Threeme2189@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Lemmings gonna lemm...
tal@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1y
I recently commented on NCD with a twelve-year-old, humorous-given-present-context review I found of that radio on eham, when apparently counterfeit IC-V82 radios were a serious problem:
https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=5046
Words of wisdom there, eham.net.
https://jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820808
buttfarts@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 1y
I wonder if the Mossad deliberately bought old decade+ out-of-production stock to insulate the manufacturer from blowback? Like if they chose a walkie-talkie currently sold by Motorola then it would basically kill that production line and hurt the company by association. People would avoid all Motorola devices in case there were Mossad explosives inside.
Also maybe they had these devices built and ready to go years ago and had this James Bond shit sitting on the shelf waiting to be put into circulation? This is a one-time attack vector. They won't be able to do this again so they wanted to make it count.
zik@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Most likely it was counterfeit radios. The batteries in decade old Icom radios would probably be dead by now.
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