I haven’t looked at any of the videos from this terrorist attack, but can someone tell me how large the explosion radius was, approximately? It’s like 20 grams of explosive from what I recall.
If you held the pager in your hand you’d lose the hand and burn your body.
If you had it on your waist your pelvis is getting blown out.
Small but powerful explosion. Think of it like holding a powerful firework vs that firework going off 1 meter from you. You’ll be fine (but stunned and bruised) by the nearby explosion vs you will be seriously harmed if it’s touching you. That’s the difference. People wearing these things were put in critical condition in the hospital or outright killed, others were luckier.
On a flight you could use it to break into the cockpit. It would easily blow the lock on a door if you taped it to the door. Or you could blow the door or window of the plane and crash it. With more than one you could take over a plane, I’m not convinced that passengers these days would sit nicely for anyone doing so though after the use of planes as suicide attacks. People would choose to fight.
Radius is hard to say, they were like a tenth of a frag grenade (complete with the frag of batteries and pager bits.) Enough to blow a hole in a plane for sure.
I haven’t looked at any of the videos from this terrorist attack, but can someone tell me how large the explosion radius was, approximately? It’s like 20 grams of explosive from what I recall.
If you held the pager in your hand you’d lose the hand and burn your body.
If you had it on your waist your pelvis is getting blown out.
Small but powerful explosion. Think of it like holding a powerful firework vs that firework going off 1 meter from you. You’ll be fine (but stunned and bruised) by the nearby explosion vs you will be seriously harmed if it’s touching you. That’s the difference. People wearing these things were put in critical condition in the hospital or outright killed, others were luckier.
On a flight you could use it to break into the cockpit. It would easily blow the lock on a door if you taped it to the door. Or you could blow the door or window of the plane and crash it. With more than one you could take over a plane, I’m not convinced that passengers these days would sit nicely for anyone doing so though after the use of planes as suicide attacks. People would choose to fight.
Radius is hard to say, they were like a tenth of a frag grenade (complete with the frag of batteries and pager bits.) Enough to blow a hole in a plane for sure.