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Old 31st Mar 2006, 09:22
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Rapier nd

Techie mate in FI 1982. Called to a fault of "system not firing" (when connected to the test set). By the time he arrived the rocks had disconnected the test set and reconnected the missiles. He jumped in the seat pressed the tit and.. Fault Cleared.
Although the missile was circa £22K it was classed as an ND and he got the standard £50 fine.
There was a queue of guys with there chequebooks out but the system of handing over faults was changed to prevent a reoccurence.
There was a similar event in GW1 but that was by a rock, I don't know his fine but it would have been the standard for the time.
So in aprox 30 years and in 2 wars we fired 2 missiles, both by accident.
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