• Police find Sidewinder Missile in a guys house, among other things
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This really made the news? It's inert/deactivated with prob. no chance of making it to fire again, let alone finding an aircraft to use it with. That's like complaining that someone owns a handle to a knife with no knife.
[QUOTE=Trooper0315;37478543]This really made the news? It's inert/deactivated with prob. no chance of making it to fire again, let alone finding an aircraft to use it with. That's like complaining that someone owns a handle to a knife with no knife.[/QUOTE] no aschually they found it amongst other weapons and australia uis really dumb with their guns laws lol so u like go to jail for having any unless u spend like a year of ur life doing paper work to own a rifle. and it said his guns r unregistered but lol fuinding a missile in some1 house thats pretty funny and in the day of interent news its all about clicks, u put weird stuff that attracts views, hearing sum guy had a missile in his house attracted me attention, ya dig?
[QUOTE=Apache249;37478232]A quick Wikipedia leads me to believe they used both still.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but the F/A designation is the Super Hornet. There is the F-18 Hornet, and then the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Heh just bought a grenade time to make my sister shit her pants thanks for the site. Deactivated of course.
[QUOTE=SKEEA;37478592]Yeah, but the F/A designation is the Super Hornet. There is the F-18 Hornet, and then the F/A-18 Super Hornet.[/QUOTE] No, there's the F/A-18A/B/C/D Hornet and the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
[QUOTE=lejf;37478574]no aschually they found it amongst other weapons and australia uis really dumb with their guns laws lol so u like go to jail for having any unless u spend like a year of ur life doing paper work to own a rifle. and it said his guns r unregistered but lol fuinding a missile in some1 house thats pretty funny and in the day of interent news its all about clicks, u put weird stuff that attracts views, hearing sum guy had a missile in his house attracted me attention, ya dig?[/QUOTE] my GOD that was painful to read.
Unless it still had the explosives in it, I don't see the problem. (Not completely sure what counts as "disarmed") Not sure how it counts as a firearm either.
As long as he didn't have an F/A-18 to launch it, the thing is harmless. Worse he could do would be whacking someone's face with it.
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;37478860]As long as he didn't have an F/A-18 to launch it, the thing is harmless. Worse he could do would be whacking someone's face with it.[/QUOTE] Or if there is any explosives in the missile he could use it to make some form of IED. v:v:v
[QUOTE=Trooper0315;37478543]This really made the news? It's inert/deactivated with prob. no chance of making it to fire again, let alone finding an aircraft to use it with. That's like complaining that someone owns a handle to a knife with no knife.[/QUOTE] Well, the various news outlets could not pass up the title "MILITARY SIDEWINDER MISSILE FOUND IN HOME([sub][sub][/sub][sub][sub][sub][/sub]Oh, and it was deactivated anyway[/sub][/sub][/sub])
[QUOTE=SKEEA;37478173]I wonder how he could have gotten one. Also, it is F/A-18 Super Hornet.[/QUOTE] Was it a Super Hornet? I thought they used Hornets too.
This is close to me aswell
What an interesting piece, I wonder how much he payed.
[QUOTE=Ghost656;37479086]Was it a Super Hornet? I thought they used Hornets too.[/QUOTE] Doesn't really make a difference in this context, considering sidewinders are used by both Super Hornets and their downtrodden non-super cousins. Also I like how australians can complain about a civilian stashing a sidewinder missile. If that happened in NZ, he'd have already outgunned all of the Air force, all of the riflemen of the army and half the navy. :v:
I load these all the time onto F-15s. The missile was prob an inert which means nothing works on it. Lives and training missiles aren't available for anyone and the accountability on them is insane. They're heavy also meaning around 150 pounds. And I hate them because they have stupid fins in the back. AIM-9X is superior sidewinder. And if it was a live the worst he could do is blow himself up or activate the rocket motor. You can't just detonate a missile. The missile detonates you.
[QUOTE=SKEEA;37478173]I wonder how he could have gotten one. Also, it is F/A-18 Super Hornet.[/QUOTE] There are two different kinds of F-18's you know, Hornet and Super Hornet. [editline]31st August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=SKEEA;37478592]Yeah, but the F/A designation is the Super Hornet. There is the F-18 Hornet, and then the F/A-18 Super Hornet.[/QUOTE] F/A stands for Fighter-Attack, not Super Hornet.
[QUOTE=ruarai;37480845]pew pew jet - 18 is a better name anyway[/QUOTE] More like AK-47.
[QUOTE=Garik;37480580]There are two different kinds of F-18's you know, Hornet and Super Hornet. [/QUOTE] don't forget there is a third [B]SUPER DUPER HORNET[/B]
Army surplus store near me sells deactivated ground to air missiles :v:
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;37481095]don't forget there is a third [B]SUPER DUPER HORNET[/B][/QUOTE] Oh shit, are we fucked?
[QUOTE=SKEEA;37478173]I wonder how he could have gotten one. Also, it is F/A-18 Super Hornet.[/QUOTE] F/A-18A/B/C/D = Hornet F/A-18E/F = Super Hornet
Don't forget about CF-18 Maple Hornets and F/A-18G/H Super Duper Hornets.
F/A-18 The F/A stands for Fighter/Aussie. I learned this from Chernarus.
I would buy a deactivated missile as an ornament, if it was legal, just take all the stuff inside out, run a cable up the inside, lightbulb and a lampshade on the top, you now have a rad as fuck floor lamp.
[QUOTE=Rents;37481943]I would buy a deactivated missile as an ornament, if it was legal, just take all the stuff inside out, run a cable up the inside, lightbulb and a lampshade on the top, you now have a rad as fuck floor lamp.[/QUOTE] Why does this remind me of Toy Story?
[QUOTE=jeimizu;37478384]You could probably get a replica from a prop company like this [URL]http://www.inertproducts.com/movie__film____tv_props[/URL][/QUOTE] [t]http://pl.b5z.net/i/u/6070324/i/160MM_CHINESE_MORTAR_REPLICA.JPG[/t] You can buy a knockoff of a Chinese mortar built in America, neat.
That shit's expensive. The title says the missile was found among other things. I wonder what else they found.
[QUOTE=Apache249;37482798]That shit's expensive. The title says the missile was found among other things. I wonder what else they found.[/QUOTE] Everytime they only mention something specific that was found amongst other things usually means that the guy has enought weapons and ammunition to supply Belgium.
Well shit, right after the Olympic shenanigans the military was all over the damn place, dismantling A-A sentries and whatnot. this guy probably just stumbled across this huge missile and had to have it, like the one guy said
Guys can we get off the fact that it was for an F-18? Goddamn sidewinders can be launched from ANY NATO aircraft. It could have been from an A-10 for all we know.
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