Nuclear missile found in Bellevue, WA man's garage

[GunnyGene]

Those crazy guys in Bellevue. Wonder what else they collect? But not to worry, the bomb squad took care of it.

Nuclear missile found in US man’s garage

A rusting rocket discovered in a man’s garage in Washington state is in fact an inert nuclear missile, police have said.

www.yahoo.com

 

[bobski]

cool!

 

[blume357]

Inert is the key word in the article... not even any fuel in the dern thing.

Years ago I was looking through my local scrap metal distributors yard and there was an interesting large tank open on one end that you could walk in... probably 6ft or more in diameter and 30 feet long.... one of the workers in the yard explained that they were selling It to a guy who was going to use it to store water for his solar powered house and it used to be a nuclear missile silo.

 

[rugerguy]

one mans junk is another mans "gold", and the ideas are endless.........

"......and so it goes...Wil Terry RIP

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Gotta love clickbait. They did not find a "nuclear missile", they found the empty, ratted-out husk of a rocket . . . junk, in other words.

And they wonder why folks distrust "the media".

 

[tazbigdog]

What until I die and the auctioneer sells my stuff!

 

[PRichardson87]

My immediate thought before reading the article was the scene from Joe Dirt when he straps himself to what he thinks is an "atom bomb"

 

[MZ5]

That fella was obviously an 'old-timer,' rather than one of the 'new' west-siders. Like him, I'd have been quite aggravated by the po-lice being called and especially the media attention over this big fat nothing-burger.

The rocket is definitely cool, though!

 

[wheelgun1958]

My immediate thought before reading the article was the scene from Joe Dirt when he straps himself to what he thinks is an "atom bomb"

I got the pooh on me!

 

[RSIno1]

It'd make a cool BBQ for a Space Force guy. After all the sailors have theirs.

some other customs - https://www.ebaumsworld.com/picture...at-have-gone-too-far/84726948/?image=84726961
and the ultimate Texas BBQ gun........

 

[wolfsong]

An air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead? What the hell is/was the Air Force planning to shoot down? The starship Enterprise?

 

[blume357]

I guess if it was real you could take out a lot of incoming planes or missiles with just one blast.

 

[GunnyGene]

An air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead? What the hell is/was the Air Force planning to shoot down? The starship Enterprise?

I remember these. The warhead was to make up for lack of accuracy. We didn't have the level of precision targeting back then that we have now so this was the air-to-air equivalent of a hand grenade as opposed to a bullet. The pool table approach: "If you can't shoot good, shoot hard."

 

[bobski]

the pics in the article dont show how small it really is. its wing mounted.
it was most likely launched at high altitude to intercept incomers from high arc flight pathes.
they dont call some af jets (interceptors) for nothing.

air 2 genie - Google Search

 

[Pathfinder36]

Those crazy guys in Bellevue. Wonder what else they collect? But not to worry, the bomb squad took care of it.

Nuclear missile found in US man’s garage

A rusting rocket discovered in a man’s garage in Washington state is in fact an inert nuclear missile, police have said.

www.yahoo.com

Talk about scary! How many Bomb Squad personnel know how to handle nukes? What did they do with it?

 

[Busterswoodshop]

Several years ago someone scrapped a 500 pound bomb at a salvage yard in Tucson.
It turned out the bomb was live and when the guy at the scrap yard started to cut it up , it exploded killing him.
Six months later another 500 pound bomb showed up. This time they caught it.

 

[TINCANBANDIT is back]

I remember a story about a lady in Belgium using a live artillery shell to summon her cows, she would hit it with a hammer and the ring would tell the cows it was time for dinner.

 

[Bob Wright]

Haven't heard of such an incident in a long time, but years back there were explosions resulting from souvenier Civil War cannon shot. Typical story was it was placed on the mantel and fell off one day, exploding.

Unexploded ordnance remains a danger over the years.

Bob Wright

 

[oldcrab]

Are you sure the nuclear missile was not found in one of Trump's Mar-a-Lago bathrooms??

 

[Sam Summey]

Inert is the key word in the article... not even any fuel in the dern thing.

Years ago I was looking through my local scrap metal distributors yard and there was an interesting large tank open on one end that you could walk in... probably 6ft or more in diameter and 30 feet long.... one of the workers in the yard explained that they were selling It to a guy who was going to use it to store water for his solar powered house and it used to be a nuclear missile silo.

An empty pipe with a cone (rocket motor) on the end. Kind of like picking up an odd empty cartridge case.