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Florida airport is evacuated after live French S-530 air-to-air MISSILE is found in a shipping container - and Air Force bomb squad are called to remove it
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | Aug 18 2020 | James Gordon

Posted on 08/19/2020 8:33:17 AM PDT by grey_whiskers

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To: grey_whiskers

This must have a serial number or the like, I’m sure the folks down at MacDill know where it came from. I bet the phone lines to METRA (Mécanique Aviation Traction) were pretty hot this afternoon.

BTW there were rumours that some of Sadam’s missiles turned up eventually in containers at Rotterdam port. Often these shipping containers only get opened when someone doesn’t pay their storage dues.


81 posted on 08/19/2020 1:22:01 PM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: grey_whiskers
It's not known how the missile arrived at the airport which is mainly used for private jets and no longer for any kind of military use.

Not known how it got there? No tracking, no idea where it was being sent or from whom, no paperwork or markings, sounds like the US Postal Service.

82 posted on 08/19/2020 1:25:03 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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Florida airport is evacuated after live French S-530 air-to-air MISSILE is found in a shipping container - and Air Force bomb squad EOD are called to remove it
83 posted on 08/19/2020 1:42:48 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: crz
""Being an ex ordnance guy, with an A&P ticket, just not possible."

Been doing this for over 40 years - "jury-rigging" the mechanical and electrical part probably do-able, a software geek with the manufacturer's manual also probable.

I'm not saying it would be pretty, but it could be functional. "

And it only has to work ONCE.

All the safeties are there to prevent accidents. Not malice.

84 posted on 08/19/2020 6:24:58 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: crz

One more point: It was impossible for the RBMK type reactor at Chernobyl to explode. The operators had to work at it, but they managed.


85 posted on 08/19/2020 6:56:23 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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Look. It would take a launch rail to get it off the ground. OR, they’d have to get a rather big plane and do it.

Planes get tracked by radar, do you realize that the USAF planes would do to a plane that even got within miles of AF1 without acknowledging who they would be? Besides that, if they manged to launch it, the USAF planes would become the target.

Aint gonna happen.


86 posted on 08/19/2020 8:59:26 PM PDT by crz
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To: grey_whiskers

WHY HASN’T THE PRESS PICKED UP ON THIS? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Because they want to take dow Air Force !.


87 posted on 08/20/2020 4:28:09 AM PDT by Candor7 (The song Akatonbo( Red Dragonfly):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLblM3mW7vk)
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To: Fred Nerks

Corporate plot against President Trump foiled Ping.
Perhaps a research worthy topic.All the Best Fred!


88 posted on 08/20/2020 4:34:21 AM PDT by Candor7 (The song Akatonbo( Red Dragonfly):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLblM3mW7vk)
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To: Rad_J

Unfortunately the missile will have to wait much longer for it’s 80 virgins.


89 posted on 08/20/2020 8:06:07 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Release the Draken...


90 posted on 12/29/2020 7:31:00 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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