Army Helicopter Accidentally Drops Hellfire Missile Over Texas Homes

[Mugofdoom]

People in this thread need to understand that even if it were live ammunition, it would not have exploded simply from dropping it. The army doesn't use explosives that are ignited by impact in these types of weapons.

[editline]20th May 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=sHiBaN;36024076]What if there was a nuclear warhead HUH

[B]WE COULD HAVE BEEN DEAD[/B][/QUOTE]

Yeah, if "we" refers to a group of people participating in a group hug just underneath the shadow of the falling nuclear warhead.

Nukes don't go off if you drop them. They don't work that way.

[Pierrewithahat]

[QUOTE=mugofdoom;36024876]People in this thread need to understand that even if it were live ammunition, it would not have exploded simply from dropping it. The army doesn't use explosives that are ignited by impact in these types of weapons.

[editline]20th May 2012[/editline]

Yeah, if "we" refers to a group of people participating in a group hug just underneath the shadow of the falling nuclear warhead.

Nukes don't go off if you drop them. They don't work that way.[/QUOTE]

This.

The activation energy for high explosives is massive, you could literally grab a block of RDX, HMX or C4 and try and set it on fire with a lighter, and it would still be pretty unlikely to go off.

[simkas]

[QUOTE=sHiBaN;36024001]I did read the article. It's just that people don't read what I post.

I know they never do it that way. WHAT IF. You guys are like the Squidwards of FP[/QUOTE]

There's no fucking what if. It's like saying "what if a soldier was walking on the street with live ammo and waving his gun around and it accidentally went off", it just wouldn't fucking happen without that soldier breaking a fuckton of rules.

[SKEEA]

[QUOTE=sHiBaN;36023950]You're taking whatever I say way too literally.

Still, you can't excuse munition falling out of supposedly safe and checked machines. To say "they're designed to fall on people" is not a valid excuse for the fact that they fell near civilians. Again, I don't day and night study military laws. That's like saying I'm ignorant because I don't know the name of both of your parents.

Geeze. Is it so much to convey opinion? But I do understand where you're coming from[/QUOTE]
I never asked you to study day and night about military laws. It is literally a google search away. Here, [url]http://lmgtfy.com/?q=article+15+ucmj[/url]. Also, my comment on how it was designed to fall on people was sarcasm in the context I was using it in. Lastly, mechanical failures DO happen, no matter how many times something is checked and signed off. That is the entire purpose of my job existing is to fix those mechanical failures.

[Mr. Someguy]

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;36024904]This.

The activation energy for high explosives is massive, you could literally grab a block of RDX, HMX or C4 and try and set it on fire with a lighter, and it would still be pretty unlikely to go off.[/QUOTE]

There are reports that some soldiers even ingested C-4 to induce temporary sickness so they could get leave, and more recently, lighting C-4 on fire for cooking.

So yeah, these explosives are extremely safe, and will only go off if you want them to go off.

[zakededodead]

He must have bombed that test.

[Nerts]

[QUOTE=zakedodead;36033286]He must have bombed that test.[/QUOTE]

I bet the pilot passed with flying colours since he kept his cool though.