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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by mdasen on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:03PM (#41569899)
It looks like 1-way pagers sold in the US are powered by AA or AAA batteries: https://pagersdirect.net/collections/1-way-pagers.

That's not to say that they couldn't have put a lithium AA or AAA battery into the pagers or inserted a modified AA/AAA battery that was a combination of lithium (with greater power density) and explosive.

It's also possible that they have fancier 1-way pagers than I'm aware of.

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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by mrtksn on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:09PM (#41569987)
According to this post, the pagers that exploded had rechargeable batteries. They even used USB-C, so Hezbollah must be using somewhat fancy pagers: https://x.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/1836082246538629490
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by cdchn on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:49PM (#41570524)
I remember reading once that Apollo is pretty much the only name in the game any more for pagers.
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by londons_explore on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:41PM (#41570419)
Surprising nobody has yet posted the make/model.

Really shows that the HN community and the victims have very little overlap.

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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by chasil on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:15PM (#41570859)
Elsewhere here listed as: Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR924

https://www.google.com/search?q=About+https://www.gapollo.co...

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