[LOL] 'Ballistic missile' floats into flooded Russian village

[Balthazar]

http://rt.com/news/164808-floating-missile-siberian-village/

Only in Russia could a flood bring to your doorstep a huge intercontinental ballistic missile. Or at least that's what some Russian bloggers say, after a giant metal tube mysteriously appeared in an Altay village.

Here, a clear sign of Russian aggression: they flood an entire region in order to solve an ICBM logistics problem. Putin should be held responsible for this!

[Parazyd]

OMG. How can this happen? I mean, are they that casual and don't care about a frickin missile?

[Balthazar]

I suppose this stage of the rocket that fell to the ground during the launch of the satellite or something like that. I.e. it's just a large piece of metal.

[Lethn]

I suppose this stage of the rocket that fell to the ground during the launch of the satellite or something like that. I.e. it's just a large piece of metal.

Yeah, I think if that were a real ICBM the military would have shut down the whole place and there would be a massive and paranoid response to it, the design of the metal certainly looks similar to a rocket, but it's obviously hollow and doesn't seem to contain anything dangerous lol.

[bryant.coleman]

Some of the ICBMs owned by the Soviet army were hastily decommissioned after the disintegration. This missile segment probably originated from some of the decommission sites, located upstream in Kazakhstan.

[niothor]

I suppose this stage of the rocket that fell to the ground during the launch of the satellite or something like that. I.e. it's just a large piece of metal.

From the article:

A chemical plant in Biysk, the largest city in the area, used to fill them with rocket fuel and after the defense ministry cut its orders in the early 1990s, the plant had plenty of such tanks stored.

The tanks were probably stored on the ground and washed away by the flood

But this one was "stored " a bit differently 

“The Biysk plant uses such rockets, and when they are no longer needed sells them out,” Tatyana Zhdanova, whose family owns the tube, told the website. “Ours got away during the flood. Broke the fence and floated away along with the dogs, who were hiding inside.”

[niothor]

Some of the ICBMs owned by the Soviet army were hastily decommissioned after the disintegration. This missile segment probably originated from some of the decommission sites, located upstream in Kazakhstan.

Did you read the article?

It says there clearly from where the tube is.

[Balthazar]

Ownership question is more interesting... Should this thing be confiscated or not? Formally it is the property of the state... However, it seems that state doesn't care about this tube.  

[bryant.coleman]

Ownership question is more interesting... Should this thing be confiscated or not? Formally it is the property of the state... However, it seems that state doesn't care about this tube.  

Legally, it still belongs to the Biysk chemical plant, which is owned by the federal government. May be the cops could somehow transport it back to the factory, using cranes and trucks. 

[niothor]

Ownership question is more interesting... Should this thing be confiscated or not? Formally it is the property of the state... However, it seems that state doesn't care about this tube.  

Legally, it still belongs to the Biysk chemical plant, which is owned by the federal government. May be the cops could somehow transport it back to the factory, using cranes and trucks. 

Didn't you just said that the tube is from somewhere else?

"This missile segment probably originated from some of the decommission sites, located upstream in Kazakhstan.  ?