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Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile

by Ultramanoid on 7/16/19, 6:06 AM with 69 comments

• by skrebbel on 7/16/19, 6:50 AM

  Anyone with more insight into all of this than me who can explain why they went to fight on the Russian side? I mean, there surely were neo-nazis around on both sides of that conflict, right? Just different flavours? I wonder how you pick who to support if your core ideology is that "people different from us are bad".

• by Firerouge on 7/16/19, 6:42 AM

  What's the yellow weapon that they showed in the haul?

  https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Scree...

• by toomanybeersies on 7/16/19, 7:28 AM

  How dangerous is one of these things without the surrounding targeting system? And how useful would this be to a foreign government that somehow doesn't have access to other air-to-air missiles?

  It seems to me like a bit of a sensationalist headline, and the more dangerous weapons are actually the small arms.

• by keith_talent on 7/16/19, 8:44 AM

  This is being reported elsewhere with other details. Reports that there were multiple raids across the region on a number of groups who were connected, although details are scarce. I’ve seen it reported that the weapons belong to a member of a Juventus Ultras group.

  Links:

  https://www.football-italia.net/140792/juve-ultras-neo-nazi-...

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/01/nside-talys-ul...

• by anigbrowl on 7/16/19, 7:17 AM

  They were only a few steps away from development of a milkshake capability.

• by benj111 on 7/16/19, 7:14 AM

  How useful is this in actuality?

  Could I launch it from the ground, or does it need to be launched from the air? Could i just strap it to a Cessna, or does it need other systems (radar?) to work? Does it need the original war head, or can you attach any old explosive device.

  In short, if I as a potential terrorist wanted to shoot down a plane, would this be a reasonable starting point?