Texas Man Finds Missile Launcher in the Woods

[Zaksav91]

LOL could you imagine if he had a missle to and he went hunting for deer?

"Alright Paul theres a deer about 500 meters, see it?"
"Yea i got it shhhhhhew!!!"
ASPLODING SOUND
o_o

 

[similar.squirrel]

Shame the ammunition is probably something like $500 a pop and extremely hard to procure.

 

[SultanP]

ok....

A. cool shit.
B. What a fucking idiot. News flash moron, Explosive weaponry is fucking dangerous. You see something like this, you step back and call the cops. You do NOT pick it up, You do NOT put it in a moving vehicle, You do NOT take it fucking home. I swear to god, the fact that someone this stupid manages to live to maturity is miraculous.

Joke's on you. A tube for launching missiles does not explode. Missiles do.

Edit: Also, I doubt the military would actually use them if moving them caused them to explode, that would just be really stupid. But military personnel would probably get a higher wage.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Hell I wish I had some woods around me to go start looking for weapons on the ground. Still cool find, makes me wonder how one can possibly lose something like that.

 

[wax88]

probably a spent casing with no missile in it. probably due to a previous military ex in the area and the soldier decided to discard it. quite common in areas used for military ex. so in short-it's just the tube with no missile.

 

[FluffyNeurosis]

Life is too short not to pick up the launcher and take pictures. This is probably why life is too short.

 

[wax88]

Texas, you confuse me.

^ Lol

For the record thats an 84 mm rocket launcher designed in Sweden its designation is AT4

clever swedes

sorry that's not an AT4- it really is from a dragon ATGM.

 

[scrambledeggs]

I em envious of this master of the search ability.

 

[JWAN]

Texas, you confuse me.

^ Lol

For the record thats an 84 mm rocket launcher designed in Sweden its designation is AT4

clever swedes

sorry that's not an AT4- it really is from a dragon ATGM.

pretty similar except the ATGM has a stand built into it and it looks like it has one. I went with AT4 because i couldn't see the massive sights or the stand that are perma mounted on the side/bottom of the launcher.

your probably right, but that would mean that launcher sat out in his woods since the mid 90's and when I read the article it said it was built in 96 and I know for a fact it was taken out of service in 95 (my neighbor was a major in the Army then).

 

[Ekibiogami]

I love My State!

 

[wax88]

Texas, you confuse me.

^ Lol

For the record thats an 84 mm rocket launcher designed in Sweden its designation is AT4

clever swedes

sorry that's not an AT4- it really is from a dragon ATGM.

pretty similar except the ATGM has a stand built into it and it looks like it has one. I went with AT4 because i couldn't see the massive sights or the stand that are perma mounted on the side/bottom of the launcher.

your probably right, but that would mean that launcher sat out in his woods since the mid 90's and when I read the article it said it was built in 96 and I know for a fact it was taken out of service in 95 (my neighbor was a major in the Army then).

well, to be honest, i was able to be so certain becos i used to be in the armed forces of my own country, serving as reconnaisance, and part of the course had us identifying many weapon systems in the world-and yes, the dragon ATGM was one of them...

anyways, you'd be surprised how easy it is to lose one of these things. there was once during an exercise, someone lost a dummy LAW tube during fire-movement at night, and he didn't notice it until the end of the simulated firefght. then everyone around was like:" you lost WHAT?!!"

had to spend the next half an hr combing the jungle just to look for his LAW tube.

 

[JWAN]

Texas, you confuse me.

^ Lol

For the record thats an 84 mm rocket launcher designed in Sweden its designation is AT4

clever swedes

sorry that's not an AT4- it really is from a dragon ATGM.

pretty similar except the ATGM has a stand built into it and it looks like it has one. I went with AT4 because i couldn't see the massive sights or the stand that are perma mounted on the side/bottom of the launcher.

your probably right, but that would mean that launcher sat out in his woods since the mid 90's and when I read the article it said it was built in 96 and I know for a fact it was taken out of service in 95 (my neighbor was a major in the Army then).

well, to be honest, i was able to be so certain becos i used to be in the armed forces of my own country, serving as reconnaisance, and part of the course had us identifying many weapon systems in the world-and yes, the dragon ATGM was one of them...

anyways, you'd be surprised how easy it is to lose one of these things. there was once during an exercise, someone lost a dummy LAW tube during fire-movement at night, and he didn't notice it until the end of the simulated firefght. then everyone around was like:" you lost WHAT?!!"

had to spend the next half an hr combing the jungle just to look for his LAW tube.

yea probably not the easiest thing to find
it probably fell off of his pack when he was crawling around. Did you lose it at night?

 

[JWAN]

I gotta give the guy credit, he could have kept it as a souvenir, but he instead did the cool thing in trying to give it back to the military. I still find it rather frustrating that it took the military almost an entire day before they sent someone to confirm his find. The bureaucracy in America is just so terrible.

its an empty, antiquated, broken, tube

its a shiny club

 

[Johnnyallstar]

finders keepers....

man I wish.

 

[KazNecro]

I gotta give the guy credit, he could have kept it as a souvenir, but he instead did the cool thing in trying to give it back to the military. I still find it rather frustrating that it took the military almost an entire day before they sent someone to confirm his find. The bureaucracy in America is just so terrible.

its an empty, antiquated, broken, tube

its a shiny club

You referring to the missile launcher, or America?

 

[JWAN]

I gotta give the guy credit, he could have kept it as a souvenir, but he instead did the cool thing in trying to give it back to the military. I still find it rather frustrating that it took the military almost an entire day before they sent someone to confirm his find. The bureaucracy in America is just so terrible.

its an empty, antiquated, broken, tube

its a shiny club

You referring to the missile launcher, or America?

dont turn this into a flame war

 

[Raregolddragon]

That is nothing the old couple next door found a old abandoned missal silo a few years ago.
They lived there for 50 years and never seen it before. Bare in mind they have 500 acres of farm land in Texas.

 

[GrinningManiac]

SO THAT'S WHERE I LEFT IT

I've been looking for Ol' "Lucky Ducky" since '02! I better make some calls to this guy...I really need that thing back