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Police discover 'missile' is really a carrying case
By Times Wires
Published August 22, 2007
ORLANDO - A drab, olive-colored tube traded in at a gun exchange and described by police as a surface-to-air missile launcher is a carrying case for an anti-tank weapon, an expert said. John McGrath, an investigator for Raytheon Corp., used a serial number to identify the 4-foot-long tube as a 32-year-old fiberglass carrying case for a TOW missile and its launcher. The acronym stands for Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided missile. "They're pretty available on the Internet," he said. The Ocoee man who turned it in Friday thought it was a bazooka. Police later described it as a surface-to-air missile launcher and a rocket launcher.
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