{"id":103905,"date":"2020-08-19T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103905"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:28:04","slug":"florida-airport-evacuated-when-a-live-missile-is-found-abandoned-in-a-cargo-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103905","title":{"rendered":"Florida airport evacuated when a live missile is found abandoned in a cargo container"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103906\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Missile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Missile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Missile-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Missile-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Missile-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Missile.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The missile found in Florida, now safely in a bunker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lakeland Linder International Airport in Florida on Friday was the scene of a unique play of events. A contractor there opened an abandoned shipping container and found a live French air-to-air missile, with live warhead but not armed.<\/p>\n<p>The container appears to have markings that show the French-made Super 530 semi-active radar homing missile was originally sent to the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The container the missile was found inside had originally come through the airport as part of Draken International.<\/p>\n<p>Draken is a private military contractor that flies several different models of advanced fighter jets. In the US they are primarily used for training US military fighter pilots and forward air controllers. In the fighter pilot training role, Draken uses their fleet of mostly European fighter jets as the opposing force or &#8220;red&#8221; forces.<\/p>\n<p>MacDill AFB sent an EOD team to secure the weapon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103907\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/R-530F-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/R-530F-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/R-530F-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/R-530F.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside the tube. This one was found by Italian police during a raid on Neo-Nazis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/polkcounty\/lakeland-linder-airport-given-all-clear-after-missile-with-potential-explosives-on-it-found-in-shipment\/67-61957c0b-4875-4e71-a18c-deefab1535c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WSTP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeland Linder International Airport in Florida on Friday was the scene of a unique play of &hellip; <a title=\"Florida airport evacuated when a live missile is found abandoned in a cargo container\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103905\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida airport evacuated when a live missile is found abandoned in a cargo container<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-darwin-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103908,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103905\/revisions\/103908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}