A New Jersey woman found an AT4 missile launcher in her yard this morning as she left for work. Her home is located along flight path for Newark Liberty International Airport.
CBS2 reported:
(CBS) JERSEY CITY, N.J. A New Jersey woman made a shocking discovery on her lawn this morning when she noticed a military rocket launcher lying in the grass, reports CBS station WCBS-TV in New York.CBS2 has a video (HERE) on the troubling find. Authorities said it was the type of launcher that could take down a plane.
The inoperable military training device was found on a lawn Friday and given to Army officials at Fort Monmouth, police said.
According to WCBS-TV, the launcher was an AT4 anti-tank missile launcher. According to online information from manufacturer Saab Bofors Dynamics, the weapon is effective against landing craft, aircraft and helicopters.
The device, believed to be about 20 years old, posed no hazard, police said. It may have been used for anti-tank training, police said.
Police and Army officials are investigating to determine how the device was left at the lawn.
Niranjana Besai was leaving her house in Jersey City, N.J., to go to work Friday morning when she saw the launcher on her front lawn and immediately contacted police. Besai's house is located along flight path for Newark Liberty International Airport.
NBC4 has more:
A New Jersey state Homeland Security official said the tube is the kind that is "fired once and it is not usable again." No ammunition was found at the scene.
The tube was part of a shoulder fired anti-tank system.Investigators said the serial numbers were still on the tube. They said they will use those numbers to track the origins.
An AT4 is an unguided rocket, IIRC. It would be exceedingly difficult to hit an aircraft with one (with the exception of a hovering helicopter, or a plane taxiing down a runway directly at or away from you).
ReplyDeleteyashmak says: "It would be exceedingly difficult to hit an aircraft with one"...
ReplyDeleteExactly right if the airplane was in flight which is a comfort more than words can describe...
But if one was positioned at a point on either end of a runway at a major airport and if was even half-assed good with it, a wide body aircraft making an approach or just lifting off could possibly be a target that a murderous psychopath could nail...
I don't know how many airports in this country have a place where one could situate one's self a thousand feet or so away to launch one of these puppies but its something that could keep one up at night sweating...
Expect CARI or whatever Muslim facist group to sue her post haste! For the Democrats, she should have ignored it and let the Islamic facists shoot down an airplane!!! *sarcasm*
ReplyDeleteDepends if you were going after aircraft... now if you were going after fuel storage and delivery systems, why those are pretty immobile and quite big, so the accuracy needed is rather less than for an aircraft. Hit the right place and you can get a very nasty conflagration at more than just the site itself, as the JFK plotters were planning.
ReplyDeleteRemember: empty when found there, no idea if/when/where it was fired or at what.
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ReplyDeletewho needs missile launches when they have the Democrats!!
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ReplyDeletelaunchers.. duh!! ;)
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