Posted on 07/20/2007 4:03:18 PM PDT by Hi Heels
Old missile launcher found near NYC Fri Jul 20, 3:11 PM ET
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - An old anti-tank missile launcher was found Friday on a lawn in Jersey City, just across the river from lower Manhattan.
The launcher was inoperable and posed no hazard, police said. They turned it over to Army officials at Fort Monmouth.
Army personnel identified the yard-long tube as an AT-4 anti-tank missile launcher, said fort spokesman Timothy Rider. Such launchers can only be used once to fire a missile, and soldiers determined that this launcher had been fired, he said.
"It can never be reloaded, but it still has the mechanism that can be useful for training," Rider said, explaining that soldiers can learn to carry it on their shoulder and take aim.
Police and Army officials are investigating how the device ended up on the lawn. Officials said it appeared to be about 20 years old.
BS.
You can really pinch a finger when you collapse the launcher back into its carry configuration.
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That’s a piece of history. If you have one, I’d hold on to it.
Why do I hear Irwin Mainway saying that?
I find it curious that when they find an inert tube it is a huge story, yet when a pilot and copilot leaving LAX describe to an air traffic controller a missile flying past their plane....it is buried.
Yikes! I clearly remember that now! ;-D
As if they let pancake cookers even touch such things, Jihad-lover!
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