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'Stolen' Russian missile explodes after being sold for scrap
A "stolen" 10m-long (35ft) Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile has exploded at a recycling centre in eastern Russia, killing two and injuring one.
Russian media were alerted to the explosion of the large-scale missile in the city of Chita after a YouTube user uploaded a car dashcam video showing the moment of the blast.
The missile was an S-200 Angara, known as the SA-5 "Gammon" in Nato countries. They have been in service since the 1960s, but are nowadays superseded by the S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air models.
It is unknown how the missile came to be at a recycling plant. Local news website by24.org says that the seven tonne missile "had been stolen" from a military base by persons unknown and taken to the facility in exchange for cash. It had likely exploded while recycling workers were trying to dismantle it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40900219
Russian media were alerted to the explosion of the large-scale missile in the city of Chita after a YouTube user uploaded a car dashcam video showing the moment of the blast.
The missile was an S-200 Angara, known as the SA-5 "Gammon" in Nato countries. They have been in service since the 1960s, but are nowadays superseded by the S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air models.
It is unknown how the missile came to be at a recycling plant. Local news website by24.org says that the seven tonne missile "had been stolen" from a military base by persons unknown and taken to the facility in exchange for cash. It had likely exploded while recycling workers were trying to dismantle it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40900219
The video does display a date of 2012, but I presume the BBC has checked out the reports sufficiently for this to be genuine.
Who would think "here's a missile, let's open it up"?
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Thank heaven we have "regulations" here in the USA. 
the conster was just bragging about getting rid of 5 million, 679 thousand 834 regulations that were killing jobs. Down in the pile was the one concerning scrapyards and missles.
It's all good now. 
