And this is no small missile either. Hoofin great big thing to be stuck on a fighter.
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An air-to-air missile "in perfect working order" has been seized by anti-terrorism police in northern Italy, along with a huge stash of automatic weapons, ammunition and material featuring Nazi symbols.
Key points:
Police said the French-made air-to-air missile appeared to have once belonged to Qatar
The suspects had tried to sell the missile on WhatsApp
26 guns, 20 bayonets, 306 gun parts and more than 800 bullets were also seized
Three men were detained in the raids that targeted a number of properties, including one linked to a neo-fascist Italian political party.
The early morning raids followed a year-long anti-terrorism investigation into Italian far-right groups who fought in eastern Ukraine, local media said.
In a statement issued on Monday, Turin police said one of the men arrested was a customs officer who had previously stood for parliament for the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party.
At his home in Gallarate, police found nine assault weapons and nearly 30 hunting rifles, pistols and bayonets, as well as ammunition and antique Nazi plaques featuring swastikas.
"The police investigation ... came into being because of the activities of some Italian fighters with extremist backgrounds who had taken part in the armed conflict in the Ukrainian region of Donbass against the separatists," the police statement said.
Polizia 1 - hey how come we don't get cool armor.
Is it just me, or is anybody else wondering what the hell he was gonna do with this thing?
Like; do you think he just collects a bunch of fighter jet parts, non of which are compatible, or even to the same year, make & model of plane, and just like in that song "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash, he runs around telling his friends, "Yeah, one o' these days, I'm gonna have me my own home made fighter jet, & I'm gonna slap this baby on there & show city council what I really think of the bicycle lanes ordinance!"
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 16, 2019, 04:17:49 PM
Is it just me, or is anybody else wondering what the hell he was gonna do with this thing?
Like; do you think he just collects a bunch of fighter jet parts, non of which are compatible, or even to the same year, make & model of plane, and just like in that song "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash, he runs around telling his friends, "Yeah, one o' these days, I'm gonna have me my own home made fighter jet, & I'm gonna slap this baby on there & show city council what I really think of the bicycle lanes ordinance!"
Given that this was in Italy you could be right.