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A Miss Is Good As Mile!

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Old 29th Sep 2014, 23:49
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6 rolls of gaffer tape and it'll be good as new.
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So that's how the "Flying Can Openers " got their name
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Is this the new "Caption Competition" thread?.................
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Wander00 ... Bob IS that desperate for a win
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Don't worry, it'll buff out.



Well, somebody had to say it.
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Ahhh, well ... look at it this way. It could have been a lot worse. It could have damaged the rocket.
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I've never understood the phrase "near miss"?

Surely it is a miss that's a near hit.
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I guess near miss is not quite as disconcerting as being told that the airliner you were flying on had a near hit with another airliner.
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Does anyone know the story behind this near miss, I mean near hit?

Silly answers welcome!
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Caption Contest.....errrrr not intentionally.

Accuracy counts in Warfare but it also helps if things go "Bang!" when they are supposed to unless one is just merely sending messages I guess.
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Old 30th Sep 2014, 11:34
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That must be a missile rather than a hitile.
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Goudie wrote

Does anyone know the story behind this near miss, I mean near hit?


During shelling of positions of Ukrainian armed forces by Russians a rocket of Russian multiple rocket launcher system ‘Uragan’ [Hurricane] hit the vehicle but did not explode. The shelling took place near the settlement of Dmytrivka in Donetsk blast.
Russian rocket hit Ukrainian vehicle and did not explode | Life in Ukraine. Live, @ first hand.
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Old 30th Sep 2014, 13:44
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That is not the bit of the rocket that is supposed to go bang. The payload may have been delivered as advertised and went bang, or is a payload type that is designed to wait around before going bang.

The bit shown has to land somewhere.
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Unless it has a long delayed-action fu.................

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Guess someone only got 1 sugar in their coffee this morning and Barista server told him to F.O. and what you gonna do about it.
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