I'm told you can buy Chinese Silkworm cruise missiles for $25K or so at your friendly arms bazaar.
Where exactly is my local arms bazaar? I can't seem to find it in the yellow pages. (And do they take credit cards?)
The Silkworm is basically a Mig-17 airframe with the pilot replaced by a guidance system.
Rather it's an anti-ship missile based on the Soviet made Styx, which China acquired from the USSR in the late 50s/early sixties. Since then a lot of variations have been made on it. The Silkworm and its variants seem to be popular with assorted totalitarian hellhole states (Iraq, Iran, North Korea...).
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I'm told you can buy Chinese Silkworm cruise missiles for $25K or so at your friendly arms bazaar.
Where exactly is my local arms bazaar? I can't seem to find it in the yellow pages. (And do they take credit cards?)
The Silkworm is basically a Mig-17 airframe with the pilot replaced by a guidance system.
Rather it's an anti-ship missile based on the Soviet made Styx, which China acquired from the USSR in the late 50s/early sixties. Since then a lot of variations have been made on it. The Silkworm and its variants seem to be popular with assorted totalitarian hellhole states (Iraq, Iran, North Korea...).