miaheatlvr
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Now isnt that a major s crew up! I dont know how even after a physical search of what you are shipping this could happen..
Taiwan receives NUCLEAR WARHEAD NOSE CONES instead of $100 Helicopter Batteries!
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crashbandicoot
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Aaaaaaand you saw this where ?
miaheatlvr
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalra...on-admits.html
Here you go Mr. Skeptical. lol
Here you go Mr. Skeptical. lol
wangotango
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What can Brown do for you?
-Justin
-Justin
digitydash
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Shipped to them in 2006 tell me they couldn't of disected it in 2 years to find out about their missle components.
crashbandicoot
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Thank you . Was it really that hard ?
reefraff
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read twice, post once
"At the briefing, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the Defense Department learned last week that "four non- nuclear nose cone assemblies and their associated electrical components" used to ignite a warhead in an intercontinental ballistic missile were mistakenly sent to Taiwan in lieu of a sales order for a battery shipment.
The fuses only work on the Mark-12 weapons package/warhead and are not nuclear, but are electrical fuses. Wynne said they are "the electrical firing mechanism that allows the rest of the system to detonate."
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"At the briefing, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the Defense Department learned last week that "four non- nuclear nose cone assemblies and their associated electrical components" used to ignite a warhead in an intercontinental ballistic missile were mistakenly sent to Taiwan in lieu of a sales order for a battery shipment.
The fuses only work on the Mark-12 weapons package/warhead and are not nuclear, but are electrical fuses. Wynne said they are "the electrical firing mechanism that allows the rest of the system to detonate."
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digitydash
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Worse thing is they didn't find out for little over 2 year.They where ordered in 2005 and shipped in 06 but no knows anything till 2008 that they where shipped to the wrong place.
crashbandicoot
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Ok seriously like the parts that make up the nose cone arent made in Taiwan anyways .
ruaround
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Originally Posted by Crashbandicoot
http:///forum/post/2535430
Ok seriously like the parts that make up the nose cone arent made in Taiwan anyways .
actually they are made in GA... ceradyne-thermo...
http:///forum/post/2535430
Ok seriously like the parts that make up the nose cone arent made in Taiwan anyways .
actually they are made in GA... ceradyne-thermo...
lexluethar
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I'm curious too - how often do we ship these materials? I would hope not often if ever, but this story makes me believe we ship this stuff semi-often if they were 'mistakenly' shipped overseas. That means at some point they would ship these materials or else they wouldn't be 'in shipment yards' in the first place.
aquaknight
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Originally Posted by LexLuethar
http:///forum/post/2535965
I'm curious too - how often do we ship these materials? I would hope not often if ever, but this story makes me believe we ship this stuff semi-often if they were 'mistakenly' shipped overseas. That means at some point they would ship these materials or else they wouldn't be 'in shipment yards' in the first place.
Sort of on the right track. The military usually has 2nd and 3rd hand warehouses to keep their stuff. Sometimes it's at their own, sometimes it's at the manufacture's. Either way it adds up to a serious trail of paperwork for pretty much anything. But, this could be something as simple as the shipping guy grabbing the wrong part. The fact that it took so long to realize tells me they very rarely use that nose cone anymore. We still have crap sitting at our place from previous generations of equipment.
http:///forum/post/2535965
I'm curious too - how often do we ship these materials? I would hope not often if ever, but this story makes me believe we ship this stuff semi-often if they were 'mistakenly' shipped overseas. That means at some point they would ship these materials or else they wouldn't be 'in shipment yards' in the first place.
Sort of on the right track. The military usually has 2nd and 3rd hand warehouses to keep their stuff. Sometimes it's at their own, sometimes it's at the manufacture's. Either way it adds up to a serious trail of paperwork for pretty much anything. But, this could be something as simple as the shipping guy grabbing the wrong part. The fact that it took so long to realize tells me they very rarely use that nose cone anymore. We still have crap sitting at our place from previous generations of equipment.