Anyone have any idea why a rocket launcher would be laying in someones yard, and in the flight path for the local airport? Seems a bit off don't ya think?
traffic is a bitch in jersey! the launcher was already fired, according to latest news releases on it. i'm kinda surprised this sort of plan isn't put into action though. in any city in this country; planes fly within easy shot of a shoulder fired missile system. if you had about 50 dudes in 50 cities by airports, you could probably take out 100-150 planes before anyone realized what was happening.
I thought the same thing about the "laser scare" back when all that crap was being talked about. How could you stop it?
It was just an AT-4, you had me going there for a second. You couldn't really use an AT-4 against a plane from a distance. They are meant for tanks, it would be pretty hard to hit a moving target with one of these things especially from far away. The range is only about 250 meters, so you have to be relatively close to your target. http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache...at-4+effective+range&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us You would need something more like this to take down a plane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger
I used to sell a garden gnome that had something on his back (a sack of carrots or something). I thought it looked like a missile launcher for a long time