Posted on Sep 9, 2015
"Fort Drum farmer finds dummy missile dropped by Army helicopter"
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From: WPTZ
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) —Military officials say a dummy missile lost during a flight by an Army helicopter has been found in a farmer's field in northern New York.
Officials at Fort Drum said Tuesday that a farmer was mowing a field in the town of Martinsburg last Friday when he spotted the object and recognized it as the non-explosive missile reported lost a week earlier by the crew of an Apache AH-64 helicopter.
The aircraft from the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division was headed to Stewart International Airport in the Hudson Valley when it lost the M36 Captive Flight Training Missile, a 100-pound steel casing used to simulate the weight of a missile during flight.
Fort Drum officials recovered the missile and returned it to the post about 15 miles north of Martinsburg.
http://www.wptz.com/news/fort-drum-farmer-finds-dummy-missile-dropped-by-army-helicopter/35155982
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) —Military officials say a dummy missile lost during a flight by an Army helicopter has been found in a farmer's field in northern New York.
Officials at Fort Drum said Tuesday that a farmer was mowing a field in the town of Martinsburg last Friday when he spotted the object and recognized it as the non-explosive missile reported lost a week earlier by the crew of an Apache AH-64 helicopter.
The aircraft from the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division was headed to Stewart International Airport in the Hudson Valley when it lost the M36 Captive Flight Training Missile, a 100-pound steel casing used to simulate the weight of a missile during flight.
Fort Drum officials recovered the missile and returned it to the post about 15 miles north of Martinsburg.
http://www.wptz.com/news/fort-drum-farmer-finds-dummy-missile-dropped-by-army-helicopter/35155982
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From: arstechnica.com
The Army told Ars on Sunday it was still looking for a 100-pound dummy missile that fell from an Apache helicopter flying early Friday. The vehicle was traveling from Fort Drum in northern New York to an air show at the Stewart International Airport in New Windsor.
The military said the M36 Captive Flight Training Missile is non-explosive and non-motorized. It's designed to simulate the weight of a real missile for training purposes, specifically mimicking the Hellfire guided missile that the Apache uses in combat.. The Army said the 64-inch-long black missile was attached to a 10th Combat Aviation Brigade Apache helicopter heading to the New York Air Show, and it was last seen painted with the words "U.S. Army."
The government is asking anybody with information on the device's whereabouts to call Fort Drum's 10th Mountain Division Operations Center at [login to see] .
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/army-searching-for-missile-that-fell-from-apache-helicopter-in-upstate-ny/
The Army told Ars on Sunday it was still looking for a 100-pound dummy missile that fell from an Apache helicopter flying early Friday. The vehicle was traveling from Fort Drum in northern New York to an air show at the Stewart International Airport in New Windsor.
The military said the M36 Captive Flight Training Missile is non-explosive and non-motorized. It's designed to simulate the weight of a real missile for training purposes, specifically mimicking the Hellfire guided missile that the Apache uses in combat.. The Army said the 64-inch-long black missile was attached to a 10th Combat Aviation Brigade Apache helicopter heading to the New York Air Show, and it was last seen painted with the words "U.S. Army."
The government is asking anybody with information on the device's whereabouts to call Fort Drum's 10th Mountain Division Operations Center at [login to see] .
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/army-searching-for-missile-that-fell-from-apache-helicopter-in-upstate-ny/
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