"Hmmm....our pagers keep exploding.....

Monello

Monello

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This incident reminds me of this anecdote from a book I read decades ago.

Richard Marcinko also describes a December 1982 deployment of a dozen Team 6 operators to the Lebanese capital with a mission to analyze threats to the embassy and the Marines and recommend security improvements. In Marcinko’s version of the story, he told a senior embassy official that the embassy was vulnerable to a car bomb, but the diplomat dismissed the SEAL officer’s concerns and refused to take his advice, which was to station a “black box” device on the embassy roof that could detonate radio-triggered car bombs at a safe distance. The SEALs left Beirut the next day, about three months before the car bomb attack that destroyed the embassy, but not before they had tested their device by driving around Beirut until a house in a residential neighborhood “erupted” as they approached it. Marcinko implies the device he was holding caused the explosion.
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Kyle

Kyle

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blacklabman

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I remember years ago reading an article that defective Viet Cong and NVA rifle and mortar ammo had been inserted into their supply line. When used it would blow up the equipment and kill the user.
 
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DaSDGuy

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When our local antifa are getting off the bus for their peaceful protest they should all be provided with a pager. For comms, right?
 
GURPS

GURPS

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blacklabman said:
I remember years ago reading an article that defective Viet Cong and NVA rifle and mortar ammo had been inserted into their supply line. When used it would blow up the equipment and kill the user.
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Time Framed late 70's

family member was involved with a guy who had been involved in EOD at Indian Head and other sites in MD during the 50's and 60's

I guess he was trying to explain how tough the AK 47's were ... he was aware of a CIA program to sabotage NVA Ammo

Stocks of ammo were captured, shipped stateside, bullets were removed and the gun powder replaced with a higher explosive, everything was buttoned back up like factory new, shipped back to Nam and left where the ammo could be found .

There never were any reports of any exploding AK's ... the weapons kept firing, the shooters never noticed anything different

all these yrs later I have to wonder did the CIA do any testing 1st and the case volume on 7.62x39 is pretty day small
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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Just read a post on a solar forum, apparently solar panels were exploding in a subsequent attack.

Take out your coms, take out ability to produce power, leave a fear to turn on anything electronic.
I hope the US is taking detailed notes....
 
Kinnakeet

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Sneakers said:
Just read a post on a solar forum, apparently solar panels were exploding in a subsequent attack.

Take out your coms, take out ability to produce power, leave a fear to turn on anything electronic.
I hope the US is taking detailed notes....
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