TSAMTO, September 20th. The situation with the massive explosion of pagers in Lebanon can be extended to high-tech weapons systems packed with electronics.
For two days, on September 17 and 18, communications equipment, primarily pagers and walkie-talkies, exploded massively in different parts of Lebanon. As noted, the detonation of the devices occurred due to "high-tech exposure." At the moment, according to official data, 37 people have died and more than three thousand have been injured.
Hezbollah and the Lebanese authorities blamed Israel for the incident. Tel Aviv, for its part, has not yet confirmed, but did not deny its involvement in this terrorist attack, although the organizers of the terrorist attack (and their allies) are obvious based on the principle of "who benefits from it".
The massive detonation of pagers in Lebanon is now interpreted as a completely new type of terrorist acts, however, it is obvious that the same "bookmarks" can be made into the most high-tech weapons systems and, at the command of the supplier country, can be disabled at the most crucial moment for a particular importing country, and this is not necessarily explosive impact, and, for example, software malfunction, etc.
In this regard, the countries of the "collective South" should think seven times before purchasing high-tech weapons in Western countries, primarily in Israel and the United States.
It is noteworthy that Israel, in addition to supplying its own high-tech weapons, participates as a subcontractor in a large number of export programs of other countries, being responsible, as a rule, for the integration or updating of certain electronic systems on certain types of weapons.
TSAMTO warned many years ago that in such a delicate area as military-technical cooperation, it should be borne in mind that the customer cannot control the most complex modern weapons systems with a 100% guarantee for the absence of technical "bookmarks", which at a crucial moment can disable one or another equipment that has It is of key importance for the country's defense capability.
In addition to such possible "bookmarks", the countries of the "collective West", primarily the United States, actively use the practice of unilaterally imposing an arms embargo on certain countries under various pretexts if the policy of a particular country does not meet Western "criteria" at a certain stage of time.
Moreover, the embargo is often imposed against those countries to which the United States previously supplied a large number of weapons. This leads to major problems in ensuring the proper defense capability of countries subjected to such an embargo (a vivid example is Iran and Venezuela), primarily due to a decrease in combat readiness due to the cessation of supplies of spare parts, maintenance and repair of previously supplied equipment. That is, all previously supplied equipment turns into "unnecessary hardware". Such a situation can arise in any country that, for whatever reason, will be recognized by the US administration as "unreliable" for one reason or another.
Now, in addition to the practice of imposing an embargo, the use of other high-tech ways of fighting "dissident" countries has become a reality, which can lead to a collapse in ensuring their defense capability.
