>>63976767
>very few nations could pull of the pager op
Very few nations put themselves into a position where they create enemies like Hamas or Hezbollah. Eh, besides that pagers was pretty underwhelming when you see all the bits and pieces.
>we put explosives into pagers and sold them to Hezbollah
vs
>we put hundreds of drones into custom built trailers and hired dumb fuck Russian truckers to drive them exactly where we wanted and took over mobile cell towers to operate said drones over thousands of kilometers to strategic air bases and destroy part of a enemy state's nuclear triad
One of those is objectively way more cool and hard to do.