Junk Yard Find: Missile Training dummy?

[mikejz]

Found this at a junk yard north of Tampa. The bottom is flat, so I'm thinking it's just a dummy. No visible writing on it.<br /> Any ideas?

 

[mikejz]

Another

 

[nuaetius]

Don't know, but I would offer the owner 50 dollars just to take it home and paint it... Heck have an early Christmas and take it apart

 

[drwayne]

I doubt my wife would let me keep it if I brought it home...<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /><br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

So how many Estes motors would it take to get that off the ground? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[mikejz]

Could not get a good picture of the back end, but it's basically a roundish bottom. <br /><br />Also it had a large number of rivet on it, which seems out of place for the real thing .<br /><br /><br />Looks like part of a Thor to me......

 

[3488]

Wonder if it was display purposes, for an exhibition somewhere perhaps??????<br /><br />By the descriptions of the base, I do not think that it was ever a real missile.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[mikejz]

Well size wise, It seems too small length wise. It could be a section of of missile however, with the bottom being a shipping cover or something. I don't think it was a display, its real metal after all.

 

[rybanis]

Just today I heard a news story about how somebody in Florida stumbled across a PATRIOT anti-air missile in a junkyard, sans warhead.<br /><br />I was like O_O...could it be? Then I looked at the pictures again and caught my breath. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[bdewoody]

Almost looks like the old Martin Sprint missle, grand daddy of the patriot system. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[tomnackid]

Looks kind of like a giant rifle cartridge! Could it ahve been a display outside a gun shop or a munitions factory?

 

[usn_skwerl]

i think im gonna agree.....kind of....<br />http://www.williamson-labs.com/images/sprint-vert.jpg <br /><br />i dont think it looks like a rifle bullet....definitely too many rivets for just a display like that.... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jimfromnsf]

Not a Thor

 

[mikejz]

It seems to have some resemblance to a early Polaris, but the curves don't seem to match up completely. <br /><br />http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Polaris-a1.jpg