'Bullet-looking missile thing' turns heads along highway south of Boulder

dailycamera.com ^ | Joe Rubino

[BenLurkin]

It's fair to assume that question was on the minds of many people who traveled along Colo. 128 south of Boulder this week if they happened to catch a glimpse of what appeared to be a large, silver projectile perched alongside the highway and pointed north toward town.

[az_gila]

No, it’s some sort of sensor.

Probably a ground radar for sighting vehicles and they are using traffic to practice

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I would guess it's simply a precision guided shell, similar to the existing Excalibur program -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

Could it be testing automatic target recognition using the passing cars?

[bunkerhill7]

“Watch Smart Bullet Change Direction in Mid-Air”

[Hot Tabasco]

Looks like RAP(rocket assisted projectile).

Could be but I'm going with the BST...(bullet shaped thing)

[GreenHornet]

Nothing to worry about. It’s just ACME Corporation making another delivery to one of their best customers, Wile E. Coyote.

[DannyTN]

Was the truck being driven by Trashcan man from The Stand?

[grumpygresh]

Feds are probably training ISIS and other terrorists to attack targets in the US (airlines) and blame the attack on the TP.

[BenLurkin]

Excellent!

[Jewbacca]

Maybe. I’d have to see what else it out there -— e.g., an active radar or microwave source.

I’d also want to know which way was “front” — nose or side.

It just looks an awful lot like things I’ve seen on ground vehicles used to target tanks and the like.

[dalereed]

Who are they?

[Slyfox]

[dalereed]

Never heard of it/them.

Could be since I haven’t been to a movie n almost 60 years.

[Slyfox]

It's the number one comedy on TV in both America and Britain.

They would actually drive something like that down the highway on the show.