• P00ptart@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    This reminds me of the British SOE putting explosives in rats to be placed in coal, thinking the rat would get thrown into boilers with the coal. The Germans intercepted the first shipment, and then wasted time and energy on inspecting basically everything.

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    4 hours ago

    If I was a soldier I think I would now want to inspect and dissasemble everything I was asked to use as far as I could while being confident I could get it back together.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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      8 minutes ago

      I believe those boobytrapped pagers that Israel used against Hamas were so well designed that X-rays of them didn’t show anything unusual. I think the explosives & detonator were incorporated into the rechargeable battery. A visual inspection likely wouldn’t have caught it either.

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        3 hours ago

        I mean if you don’t they are going to require you to use it later. I mean I get it we would not be there and desert asap or what not.

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    8 hours ago

    I guess they’ll just have to deeply inspect every single piece of equipment now.

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    8 hours ago

    Have they tried to use them? I am sure once they try them out, they have nothing to complain about…

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    8 hours ago

    Translated from Ukrainian:

    The Russians complain that they received explosive pagers and FPV goggles from their “volunteers”. They say they found a plastid inside.

    It’s a shame they took them apart. It will be more interesting in the next installments😉