U.S. Patriot missiles found on a ship in Finland bound for China

[MAUSERMAN]

Hell I can always use a Hummer with a TOW launcher, and if you guys need a gunner I'll bring the beer.

[Tyler Durden]

whoops!

turns out those Patriot missiles were ours or are ours and we were shipping them to South Korea.

Yeah, my initial gut reaction was that they had somehow got on the black market and were being sold to China.

[Solus]

The Shillelagh was a missile launched from a M551 Sheridan light tank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M551_Sheridan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-51_Shillelagh

That I've found by google...but the vehicle I sat in wasn't a missile or a Sheridan tank..  And it wasn't going to be a platform for the missile, which I considered, because it was to small..short..I was taller than it by bit..  It was a low slung track recon vehicle.  I might have the nickname wrong, but that is what I remember.  If you are interested in finding what vehicle I remember, search for something that matches the vehicle description rather than the name I remember...of course others interest won't be as peaked as mine  


P.S.  most of my interest is because I was told that it was capable of full maneuverability in open terrain at it's top speed of 70mph.
I had my doubts about that but wasn't an engineer.  I assumed the 70mph was a classified speed.  Wasn't any way to really research it till the Internet became available.

[fightingquaker13]

If you can't afford to actually, ya know, BUY a tank, there is always this (BTW, I literally just ran across this - I had no clue). M58, you anywhere near Kosota, MN?

I found my Christmas present!!!!!!

http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2011/12/07/sbiz_drive_a_tank_poppy.cnnmoney/

Good Lord! Sixty to eighty grand for a Chieftain? You can drop more than that on a Mercedes without breaking a sweat. And I'm willing to bet that if you're willing to break a few dozen laws and have a buddy that's good with tools, that that deactivated gun, well.......Are you listening BillT? Kilo? Heck, even minus the cannon, a couple of live .50 cals and I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it.
FQ13

[Big Frank]

Solus your desription sounds more like an M114 variant than anything else I'm familiar with but the top speed is only half that. As far as I know it only has a model number and not a name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M114_armored_fighting_vehicle

[Sponsor]

[fightingquaker13]

Hell I can always use a Hummer with a TOW launcher, and if you guys need a gunner I'll bring the beer.

I'll bring the beer, you bring the ammo.
FQ13

[Pathfinder]

whoops!

turns out those Patriot missiles were ours or are ours and we were shipping them to South Korea.

Yeah, my initial gut reaction was that they had somehow got on the black market and were being sold to China.

Well, hell, there goes a perfectly good conspiracy (theory). 

[Solus]

whoops!

turns out those Patriot missiles were ours or are ours and we were shipping them to South Korea.

Yeah, my initial gut reaction was that they had somehow got on the black market and were being sold to China.

I wonder???  does that make our drifts meaningless?

[Pathfinder]

I wonder???  does that make our drifts meaningless?

Blasphemer!!!!!