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Original model with 165 km range, inertial navigation and 950 M74 anti-personnel and anti-materiel (APAM) grenades.

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[–] Szymon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Here's a fun exercise. Sync up the manufacture dates on weapons, their expiry, and massive global conflicts breaking which happen to clear out old inventory.

You die so Lockheed Martin keeps making billions.

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

As an environmentalist, I’m so relieved they are not simply going to waste.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do they use also look - smell - taste like for food after its best before date has passed?

[–] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I suspect the failure rate goes up. Have you seen the video of the Russian AA missile pretending to be a boomerang πŸͺƒ and flying back to its launch point?

That's what can happen with old rockets.

[–] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yup. One issue from long storage is that the fuel in solid fuel rockets can start to separate. Ryan McBeth did an explanation on a possible cause on that AA missile failure.

As you mentioned, some explosives also become unpredictable. The Takata airbags sending shrapnel into drivers faces comes to mind.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I've seen (that?) such a video. Rockets and missiles have a lot of mechanical and electronical parts that can refuse to work properly when overaged or stored under bad conditions, besides fancy things happening to the explosives.

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