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To: mandingo republican

The big one looks like a surface to surface missile on a transporter. It does not look like the transporter would be capable of erecting the missile for launch.

The smaller missile appears to be a surface to air missile, based on the generally smaller size and the canard fins. You would expect to see air defense missiles around a surface to surface missile installation.

I will google around to see if I can find a good match for the big fella.


5 posted on 04/07/2005 12:26:12 PM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: gridlock
I will google around...

At least until you need glasses

11 posted on 04/07/2005 12:28:08 PM PDT by Lekker 1 ("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
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To: gridlock
You would expect to see air defense missiles around a surface to surface missile installation.

Yeah, but probably not that close, if ready to launch. The SAM missile would risk damaging the SSM.

15 posted on 04/07/2005 12:29:58 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: gridlock

Both appear to be 60's vintage (Cuban Missile Crisis) to Vietnam-era weapons.

The smaller white one is the classic SA-2 (NATO name: GUIDELINE) Soviet medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile. This type of missile shot down Gary Powers in his U2 and was used with some success by the North Vietnamese. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/v-75.htm

The larger OD green one looks like some sort of SCUD variant. Neither one looks like it's actually functional.


32 posted on 04/07/2005 12:48:47 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: gridlock
You would expect to see air defense missiles around a surface to surface missile installation.

This is way too close. Launching one would damage the other. I'll go with museum display.

39 posted on 04/07/2005 1:00:42 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: gridlock
You would expect to see air defense missiles around a surface to surface missile installation.

Yes, but probably not in such close proximity. That makes this either a museum, like another poster suggested, or a maintenance depot. I'm inclined to think the former...

42 posted on 04/07/2005 1:18:17 PM PDT by Tallguy
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