Uruguay: Woman searching a skip in Montevideo finds military rocket; origin under investigation

Tuesday, February 24th 2026 - 14:14 UTC

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A woman who described herself as a waste picker found a military rocket while searching a skip in Montevideo’s Pocitos neighborhood and contacted police, triggering a security operation at her home in Nuevo París, northern Montevideo, according to Montevideo police. Read full article

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Rufus
Very odd, but at least it wasn't an SM-62 Snark (one of the early generations of intercontinental cruise missiles that had a guidance system that left a little to be desired) - in testing it got to the point that the Caribbean was being described as “Snark-infested waters”.

The best one was a test in 1956 that was supposed to launch from Cape Canaveral, loop round Puerto Rico, go back to Cape Canaveral and ditch just off the coast.
It didn't.
It was found stuck in a tree near Maranhao, Brazil, in 1983...
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