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Old 29th Dec 2013, 19:02
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cockney steve
 
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Conditions were primitive, with one Javelin losing a Firestreak missile when a nest of termites crawled up the landing gear and ate the solid propellant out of the missile.
For some reason, I found this hilarious.....would someone have traced the creatures back to the nest and dropped in a lighted match?
jet-propelled termite corpses would be quite a diversion, I'd think.
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