"“I can guarantee you they were not our products,” the AP quoted Ray Novak, a senior sales manager for Icom America’s amateur radio division, as saying during an interview Wednesday at a trade show in Providence, R.I.

Novak said Icom introduced the V82 two-way radio model more than two decades ago and it has long since been discontinued. It was favored by amateur radio operators and for use in social or emergency communications, including by people tracking tornadoes or hurricanes, he said."

"Icom, a Japanese manufacturer of radio equipment, said in a statement on its website Thursday morning that it produced the IC-V82 handheld radio from 2004 to October 2014 and shipped it to overseas markets, including in the Middle East, during that period. But there had been no shipments since the model was discontinued about 10 years ago and the production of batteries to operate the unit had also been discontinued, the company said."

WaPo: Japanese walkie-talkie maker investigating Lebanon explosion reports

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/18/icom-investigates-lebanon-explosion-radios/

Oh boy... Icom handhelds blowing up in Lebanon. Curious exactly what the supply chain attack here is. Remote triggered batteries packed with explosives alongside the battery cells?