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Police stop truck carrying missile launchers on Toronto-area highway
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Posted on 12/02/2005 12:55:46 PM PST by Alex Marko

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To: Alex Marko

I agree, what in the folking hail is going on here?


41 posted on 12/02/2005 1:48:03 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: Alex Marko

You can have all the launchers you want, but without the actual missiles, they won'd be much more useful than any other piece of steel rail.


42 posted on 12/02/2005 1:51:18 PM PST by LouD
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To: Brilliant

LOLLOLLOLOLOL!!!!!


43 posted on 12/02/2005 1:52:03 PM PST by wildcatf4f3 (admittedly too unstable for public office)
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To: Izzy Dunne

"Follow the only road, ..."


44 posted on 12/02/2005 1:54:23 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Klatuu
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farquhar was instrumental in assisting Hamilton Gault in founding the regiment.
Colonel Farquhar, Military Secretary to Canada's Governor General, the Duke of Connaught, asked the Duke of Connaught for permission to name the regiment after his daughter, Princess Patricia of Connaught.
She was pleased to accept this honor and thus the Princess Pat’s were established.
45 posted on 12/02/2005 1:54:40 PM PST by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: Belasarius

Main thing is the warheads are pretty darn small.


http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20030813a.asp

I've notice people sort of blindly assume that any airliner hit by a MANPADS will crash which is assuredly not the case. Not that it's something to be ignored but at times it's overhyped.


46 posted on 12/02/2005 1:55:16 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: mitchbert
Was under heavy stress due to family issues at home and screwed up delivery date and was basically driving around "lost" in more ways than one.

He lives in Canadistan...of course he's lost.

47 posted on 12/02/2005 1:55:55 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: highlander_UW

Yikes! Let's hope this was just a mix up and someone who shouldn't have them didn't get their hands on these things.


48 posted on 12/02/2005 2:15:02 PM PST by Pop Fly
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To: Izzy Dunne
You can't get from Toronto to Montreal by going west.

The punch line in the classic Maine joke is "25,000 miles, and some of it's damn bad wheelin'."

49 posted on 12/02/2005 2:45:33 PM PST by Grut
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To: Peach

Was this a stolen truck they didn't want the media finding out about?


50 posted on 12/02/2005 2:57:23 PM PST by Mo1 (Message to Democrats .... We do not surrender and run from a fight !!)
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To: Sally Golightly
"Several police cruisers were needed to pull over the vehicle as it travelled westbound on Highway 407 near Toronto."

WTF?!? Why were several police cars needed to stop this guy?

51 posted on 12/02/2005 2:59:29 PM PST by GBA (I believe Congressman Weldon! MSM do your job.)
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To: Gator101
I am shocked! ...Canada actually has armored vehicles and missiles?

Now, now, don't rush to any conclusions. LOL

52 posted on 12/02/2005 3:00:35 PM PST by Fruitbat
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To: mitchbert
"Was under heavy stress due to family issues at home"

Exactly the kind of guy I'd want hauling this type of load.

53 posted on 12/02/2005 3:02:41 PM PST by GBA (I believe Congressman Weldon! MSM do your job.)
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To: EternalVigilance

lol

(wouldn't be surprised to see that "update" however)


54 posted on 12/02/2005 3:07:22 PM PST by Sweetjustusnow (Oust the Communists)
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To: kms61
it was the parent outfit of the Canadian snipers who served with distinction in Afghanistan

I believe so, and IIRC, they received more recognition of that fact in the U.S. than they did here.

55 posted on 12/02/2005 3:10:14 PM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Captain Rhino

Probably adats.


56 posted on 12/02/2005 3:32:54 PM PST by mark_interrupted
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To: Belasarius

What theya re assuming is that the engine is hit and tears large areas of the wing' or wing root (or tail) is hit, and the plane loses the stability.

THIS SIZE missile would (most likely) not be armed into a carrier on a commercial truck - BUT, it could be.

Many "truck/tank-body/APC-carried" missiles are "stowed" in the launcher as ready rounds.


57 posted on 12/02/2005 4:03:09 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: tertiary01; Borax Queen

fyi ping


58 posted on 12/02/2005 4:05:36 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Izzy Dunne
You can't get from Toronto to Montreal by going west.

Tell that to Christopher Columbus ;-)
59 posted on 12/02/2005 4:17:01 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: Belasarius

"I've always wondered about that. A 747, for instance, is a damn big airplane and, even if a Stinger managed to take out one engine, so what?"

Hit one of those big turbofans with a missle and the engine will likely come apart with explosive energy. If you are lucky it will rip itself off the nacelle before doing this. A damaged turbfan, as it tears itself apart might take part of the wing with it. As it comes apart or blows up, pieces flying off of it can severly damage control surfaces or penetrate cabin, etc.

Lots can go wrong. Depending on where and how the missle actually hits the damage can be surviveable on an aircraft that big, or catastrophic.


60 posted on 12/02/2005 4:32:31 PM PST by PsyOp (Men easily believe what they want to. – Caesar, De Bello Gallico, III, 18.)
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