Re: More ripe BS for us to swallow!

May 19, 2004 3 Replies


ATLANTA - A military rocket launcher was found Tuesday near a rail-transit


>station, but the FBI said it looks to be a less-powerful model commonly used
>to train soldiers and would be unable to bring down an aircraft or destroy a >train.

What I saw was a launcher that looked in pretty bad shape. May have been taken from a traiing sight by a soldier looking for a memento. Training rounds for the most part are inert or may only contain a small marker charge if any. The point being you train someone how to safely use them before you give them the real thing. In this case if all they found was just the launcher without a load, ie a rocket in it, then yep you couldn't hurt a fly with it unless you smacked it with the launcher. Speculation here but it sounds to me from where it was found that somebody either stashed it intending to come back for his prize later or got scared because it's jail time if your caught with one and ditched it. I hope thats all this is.

...and that has exactly what to do with scale models?

It was an LS 1:1 scale????

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Funny, I never saw it in their catalogue. ;)

Actually, I think the header to this thread says it all.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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