This week's collaboration with the always awesome What Is It? Blog brings us this strange object - can you guess what it is for? Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, so you're playing for the fun of it.
For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog - Good luck!
Update 7/26/09 - That was too easy! The answer: A dart aerial gunnery target, this dart tow-target was fired upon by F-84F pilots of the 162nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard, Springfield, Ohio, during 1968 summer training exercises in Michigan. It was towed behind another airplane on 1,500 to 2,000 feet of cable and was equipped with a radar reflector to permit the use of radar gunsights. It was returned to earth by parachute upon completion of a gunnery mission. The damage was caused by .50-cal. bullets.Congratulations to Jared who got it right first!
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well if that is a starfighter, then the ark of the covenant is probably hidden over in the shadows. area 51, anybody?
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Towed radar or sonar target.
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It's a post card from france. (See Coneheads on SNL)
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It is a stopper to be placed in rocket engines, to protect the innards from the elements.
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178th is for the 178th Fighter Wing training force in Ohio.
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