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2016-03-14 Europe

Serbian authorities find Hellfire missiles -- inbound for Portland

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Posted by Steve White 2016-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Oregon, eh? Maybe somebody is looking to blow up a dam.

Posted by SteveS 2016-03-14 00:38|| 2016-03-14 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I doubt this is the only one.

Posted by Newc 2016-03-14 00:47|| 2016-03-14 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 SteveS - Hellfires are not strong enough to do more than chip the concrete on the big Oregon dams.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-03-14 08:30|| 2016-03-14 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Why ship the entire missile? Why not extract the blowuppy parts?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-14 08:45|| 2016-03-14 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Skidmark, Maybe they have a helicopter to mount it on? Or a Cessna they can rig up a mount for?

Posted by Glenmore 2016-03-14 10:33|| 2016-03-14 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 So, we've given the Lebanese Hellfires for their Cesna Caravans and Super Turcanos (assuming they get delivered one of these days). So I guess the question is, is this common Arabic corruption, or is someone in the Lebanese Air Force playing footsie with a terror group with people in place in the States? Hrm. Portland is apparently host to fairly large Lebanese and Syrian community - not Dearborn or Toledo big, but good-sized.

Posted by Mitch H. 2016-03-14 11:47|| 2016-03-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, you conspiracy nuts!
These were just training units, like were shipped to Cuba!

(maybe to prefab the mount brackets, Glenmore)

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-14 11:53|| 2016-03-14 11:53|| Front Page Top

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