Posted on 12/02/2005 12:55:46 PM PST by Alex Marko
TORONTO - The army is looking into a bizarre incident in which a tractor-trailer loaded with anti-aircraft missile launchers was seen rolling down a major Ontario highway.
Several police cruisers were needed to pull over the vehicle as it travelled westbound on Highway 407 near Toronto.
The trailer was carrying two armoured personnel carriers bearing Department of National Defence licence plates and loaded with anti-aircraft missile launchers.
Police say the carriers, formerly registered to the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, were supposed to be delivered to Montreal on Thursday.
Police took the driver into custody at the scene, and the armoured carriers have been taken to a storage depot.
A spokeswoman for the Department of National Defence says the army is investigating.
"At this point, I don't have any confirmation on anything," said Lieut. Morgan Bailey.
I agree, what in the folking hail is going on here?
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.
LOLLOLLOLOLOL!!!!!
"Follow the only road, ..."
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.
He lives in Canadistan...of course he's lost.
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.
The punch line in the classic Maine joke is "25,000 miles, and some of it's damn bad wheelin'."
Was this a stolen truck they didn't want the media finding out about?
WTF?!? Why were several police cars needed to stop this guy?
Now, now, don't rush to any conclusions. LOL
Exactly the kind of guy I'd want hauling this type of load.
lol
(wouldn't be surprised to see that "update" however)
I believe so, and IIRC, they received more recognition of that fact in the U.S. than they did here.
Probably adats.
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.
fyi ping
"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.
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