Bombs found near B.C. high school

The shells are a component of a portable military weapon that lobs them at targets up to several hundred metres away."

Hundreds of meters? try 4 kms.

Considering reporters who cover war zones can't tell a tank from a jeep or an assault rifle from a '94 Winchester, I doubt there was much danger. You can get the cast iron shells for around $10 and they are as dangerous as a cinder block.

Was it a 105 round? Sounds like they found a 80mm mortar.

A 120mm mortar has a maximum range of over 7,000 metres!

The fact that they didn't find a tube gives it a range of maybe 6 feet.

That's good.... wouldn't want that:



Now imagine if they had this bad boy:

It's Burnaby... not Iraq.
It would go down more like this:


I remember they found some Chinese gangster kid with a Nazi fetish and an MG34/42 on a tripod in some Vancouver apartment and the press hardly noticed. Aside from the fact that, without 1000+ rounds of obsolete ammunition, this would gave been just as useless as mortar rounds without a tube.

That made my day.