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Florida airport is evacuated after live French S-530 air-to-air MISSILE is found in a shipping container - and Air Force bomb squad are called to remove it
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | Aug 18 2020 | James Gordon

Posted on 08/19/2020 8:33:17 AM PDT by grey_whiskers

A contractor who was working at a Florida airport opened up a container to find a live missile.

The shocking find happened on Friday afternoon at Lakeland Linder International Airport east of Tampa.

It's not known how the missile arrived at the airport which is mainly used for private jets and no longer for any kind of military use.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Mopp4
"How did he know it was live?"

The crate said "Acme Live Bomb."
41 posted on 08/19/2020 9:15:12 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Robert A Cook PE
"ANY helicopter or light plane than can “carry” it externally could, with time and some care and an “adapter kit” carry it aloft and...shoot the thing."

A couple good A&P mechanics and a decent Engineer should be able to jury-rig it.

(I spent years doing non-standard retrofits and repairs to aircraft - not that I could do it, but know the people who can).

42 posted on 08/19/2020 9:20:15 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area")
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To: crz
I could see it used for a suicide mission, if there was a method to arm it and use a small aircraft as a delivery vehicle.

To launch it would require a great deal of sophistication. Possibility would be a privately owned former military aircraft available, but even that would require a lot of wiring and the addition of a pylon. All doable but the only way a terror group would go the Air to Air route is if they could not obtain one of the multitude of shoulder launched systems still missing. It could also be a dumb$hit terror wannabe who thought they had a plan.

AF1 never flies unescorted. A small plane or outdated military aircraft would be a beautiful target for any modern aircraft. I can assure you they would not get within locking range of AF1. The minute they pinged AF1 they would be attacked. There are other options of course, maybe it was enroute to a private militaria collector. Somebody failed to check to make sure the warhead was inert. Similar stories abound so it has probably happened before. I have seen collectors with entire aircraft sitting in their back yard. They are not and never will be flyable again they just look cool.

It is also possible terrorists wanted the warhead. If so why ship the whole missile and take a chance?

43 posted on 08/19/2020 9:21:10 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angles will sing for me)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The potential of that is chilling. ANTIFA firing it at Air Force One comes to mind.

ANTIFA? No way. They're not smart enough. Our own government maybe.

44 posted on 08/19/2020 9:24:14 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Mopp4

tic toc sound


45 posted on 08/19/2020 9:27:27 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: grey_whiskers
I'm always misplacing my car keys and my surface to air missiles. Happens all the time.

IMHO this was a deep state placement and discovery. Crossfire Chaos Hurricane, 2020, #237. It will not stop.

46 posted on 08/19/2020 9:27:55 AM PDT by blackdog (If you must cut a tree, plant two. It's just decency)
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To: grey_whiskers

The markings showed, “Benghazi Weapons Clearance Depot” (All Sales Final)


47 posted on 08/19/2020 9:30:14 AM PDT by blackdog (If you must cut a tree, plant two. It's just decency)
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To: grey_whiskers

“Trump recently canceled an event in Florida.”

He is also going to his residence in New Jersey at the golf course. He may have some intelligence about some going on’s in Florida and has changed his place of operation.


48 posted on 08/19/2020 9:33:58 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: crz
An air to air?

I believe the CIA has aircraft of its own. The CIA are the enemy, just like the MSM are the enemy.

49 posted on 08/19/2020 9:36:32 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Psalm 73

Yuppers. Not impossible, but much more work than a lanyard, a wire, and a couple of C-clamps and bungee cords.


50 posted on 08/19/2020 9:38:49 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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To: crz

Yeah, that’s big enough and fast enough that I doubt the anti-MANPADS laser defense system on AF1 could take it out.


51 posted on 08/19/2020 9:42:23 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: All

Highly unusual. Not really funny.

I’m sure there would be a way to use it. Probably those who accidently delivered it would know best.

You’re enemies include plenty of infiltrators throughout what’s left of USGov and our military. Plenty of infiltration.


52 posted on 08/19/2020 9:44:15 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: grey_whiskers
Yikes.


53 posted on 08/19/2020 9:44:37 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Mopp4
How did he know it was live ?

"Live" is an irrelevant term here. "Armed" is more to the point. And it isn't armed until the fighter aircraft hauling it around arms it.

54 posted on 08/19/2020 9:47:23 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: grey_whiskers

Because they want the public to not know. The cogent points are of course from whence this came, and to whom is it addressed....


55 posted on 08/19/2020 9:48:53 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the Thanks.virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I heard all about this on the news /S


56 posted on 08/19/2020 9:50:35 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Steve_Seattle

You left out:

ATTN: Wile E Coyote


57 posted on 08/19/2020 9:54:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: OldGoatCPO
AF1 never flies unescorted. A small plane or outdated military aircraft would be a beautiful target for any modern aircraft. I can assure you they would not get within locking range of AF1. The minute they pinged AF1 they would be attacked...It is also possible terrorists wanted the warhead. If so why ship the whole missile and take a chance?

Interesting...

58 posted on 08/19/2020 9:57:08 AM PDT by GOPJ (Want to live in a 3rd world hellhole? MOVE to one. DO NOT ELECT DEMOCRATS TO CREATE ONE HERE)
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To: crz

According to the article, the Air Force guys are currently disarming it.

If you meant Air Force guys here at FR, I dunno anything bout French missiles except A/A missiles like Sparrows and Sidewinders look small on fighters but are actually big compared to a human being.


59 posted on 08/19/2020 9:58:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: grey_whiskers

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/08/17/macdill-eods-remove-french-air-to-air-missile-from-florida-airport/


60 posted on 08/19/2020 10:00:31 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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