This news article was too good to pass up. Apparently these people have been dragging up live missiles for a few years now. The one in the picture sure looks like a Sidewinder air-to-air missile. I would have dumped it back myself. I love explosives and technology, but this is really too much to ‘hang onto’. According to the article the missile was still live! Some people get all the good ‘life stories’! The other one the guy caught previous had blinking lights, was still trying to live, and appeared to have an active camera. If you’re not sure what that all means, you should look into how a missile like the sidewinder works.
As a reference, here’s a rack of varying Sidewinder missiles. As a work of the US Federal Government, this image is Public Domain.
Various Sidewinder Missiles - Public Domain Image
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