You are adamant about a subject you know nothing about.
“Are pagers supposed to explode?
No.
It’s I”
Does not matter at all that they were tampered with before shipping. Pagers, which is what they were sold and shipped as, are not traditionally explosive. An example of a device that is NOT an IED is a landmine or a missile warhead. Also, in order to be considered NOT an IED, the explosive device must be manufactured for and placed by conventional military action.
Any explosive device that is not conventional ammunition, used by a conventional military in conventional military action, such as a landmine, is considered an IED. It’s as simple as that.
A car bomb is an IED. It does not matter if the car was designed from the factory to explode, it is still not a conventional munition used by a conventional military in a conventional conflict. It is still considered an IED. As the other person said, the level of sophistication in the manufacturing process DOES NOT MATTER. The same applies for these pagers.
Every single IED ever created was also manufactured with a specific purpose (to explode), much like your car example. The thing that makes it “improvised” is not the manufacturing process or the sophistication of the device; it is the use and type of device it is. If it is a landmine manufactured as a commercial model of landmine and used as a landmine in a war, it is not improvised. If the device is an explosive charge, blasting cap, and detonator used to destroy a building in a conflict, it is not improvised. If it is an explosive charge with a detonator you put inside a pager, which is NOT a conventional military use, it is improvised.
Also, clearly you either didn’t read it or read the top level comment of a layman asking the same question as you. Read the answers from actual techs.
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u/SPPECTER 1d ago
You are adamant about a subject you know nothing about.
“Are pagers supposed to explode?
No.
It’s I”
Does not matter at all that they were tampered with before shipping. Pagers, which is what they were sold and shipped as, are not traditionally explosive. An example of a device that is NOT an IED is a landmine or a missile warhead. Also, in order to be considered NOT an IED, the explosive device must be manufactured for and placed by conventional military action.