Ballsy Thieves Steal Gigantic Jet Engines From Israeli Air Force Base

Now this is a heist that takes some serious daring. Or complete ineptitude on the part of the robbed. Either way, scrap-wranglers boosted eight F-15 and F-18 jet engines from Tel Nof air base in Israeli. How? Good question.

Each engine weighed several tons. And there were eight of them. How do you walk out of a high security installation with eight gigantic fighter engines? Probably with help from someone on the inside—Israel says “The military police have opened an inquiry into the matter.” This is extremely embarrassing, to say the least. Time to change the locks, guys. [AFP via DefenseTech]

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    ChemZ

    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    Clearly they didn’t walk out of there…

    …looks like David Copperfield is up to his old tricks again! :)

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    summer

    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 9:56 PM

    hahaah that is funny and too a shame on idf
    maybe next time the stiehl a tank or maybe an complett figther plane eheh
    what goes on in that country?

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