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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday January 08 2017, @06:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-me-get-my-scuba-gear dept.

Apparently a South Korean patrol airplane accidentally dropped its load into the Sea of Japan.

A South Korean maritime patrol airplane lost its entire loadout of live weapons when a crew member accidentally hit the wrong button. Nearly $5 million dollars' worth of weapons tumbled into the Sea of Japan. The South Korean military is attempting to recover the weapons, which it says were not armed when lost.

The incident was reported on January 1 by the Yonhap News Agency. The U.S.-made P-3CK Orion maritime patrol aircraft was flying a routine mission over the Sea of Japan when a crew member on board "mistakenly touched the emergency weapons release switch."

[...] The South Korean military has sent a minesweeper and a salvage ship to the area to fetch the weapons and pledged it won't drop $5 millions worth of missiles in the future.

I wonder if they'll take it out of his paycheck?


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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday January 08 2017, @08:13PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 08 2017, @08:13PM (#451155) Journal

    2600 readers

    +1 just for this insight.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @08:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @08:44PM (#451173)

    Dude! Belonging to the BOYS CLUB makes MY DICK so FUCKING HARD bro.

    It's so great to like all the same things that the group likes! BRO we're so SOCIAL dude!@!1

    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday January 08 2017, @09:43PM

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 08 2017, @09:43PM (#451202) Journal

      That's kind of a strange response -- I've never read 2600, any more than you have, but its readership target is (was?) just the kind of folks that tinker with infrastructure leading to such comical outcomes as this. In general, this is a group of people who like to tinker, but not destroy; as opposed to those who tend to tinker terroristically. It's insightful to point out that such people exist--and that monkeying around with military exercises would not necessarily indicate a bad actor; perhaps it's just someone displaying a weakness in the system for fun, not profit/loss.

      What has groupthink or sociality to do with that?

      • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Monday January 09 2017, @12:04AM

        by dyingtolive (952) on Monday January 09 2017, @12:04AM (#451247)

        Sounds like another chemically imbalanced AC posting random crap.

        I read 2600, along with other publications. I like making and breaking stuff. There's not really anyone else physically around me with similar interests, and it's refreshing to see things more interesting than "look I put LEDs on something!" which is what the majority of the arduino and raspberrypi guys on G+ like doing.

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        Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
        • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday January 09 2017, @02:46AM

          by Magic Oddball (3847) on Monday January 09 2017, @02:46AM (#451294) Journal

          Exactly. I've got a nice little mostly–complete library of issues going back to around 2000, even like to re–read the older ones every so often as a reminder of things have changed — and my naughty bits assure me that I'm quite definitely female, gender stereotypes be damned.