{"id":10174,"date":"2011-03-17T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:45:28","slug":"history-channel-pawn-stars-buy-amraam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/history-channel-pawn-stars-buy-amraam\/","title":{"rendered":"History Channel &#8220;Pawn Stars&#8221; Buy AMRAAM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few different entertainment news sources are reporting that the purveyors of the reality TV series <em>Pawn Stars<\/em> purchased a US Air Force air-to-air missile recently.\u00a0 As with many discussions of military hardware, its difficult to tell what, precisely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2011\/03\/15\/pawn-stars-purchase-missile-guidance-report-says\/\">anyone is talking about<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sources confirm to FOX411 that the stars of the History Channel\u2019s reality show \u201cPawn Stars\u201d have purchased a guidance system for a missile used on F-4 Phantom fighter planes.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ originally reported that Rick Harrison and his team made the deal for an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile last week, although the missile did not contain a live war head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An AIM-120 is not a guidance system, and AMRAAMs were not <!--more-->carried on the F-4.<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of linking to a celebrity gossip site, TMZ did report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/03\/15\/pentagon-pawn-stars-missile-investigation-military-us-air-force-special-agents-aim-120-amraam\/\">some other details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The seller had maintained that her dad purchased the items at an official military auction during the &#8217;80s &#8230; and we&#8217;re told she had the proper court-approved paperwork specifying she could legally sell the parts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, but the AIM-120 wasn&#8217;t fielded until the 1990s.\u00a0 Other details of the actual missile are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/information\/factsheets\/factsheet.asp?id=79\">available from the Air Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any air-to-air missile is almost entirely rocket\u00a0propellant, warhead, and guidance system.\u00a0 Not even the <em>Pawn Stars<\/em> would be dumb enough to want to store 300 pounds of rocket propellant or a blast-fragmentation warhead in their store.\u00a0 And its highly unlikely they have an <em>actual<\/em> (once operational) seeker head.<\/p>\n<p>None of the websites have pictures, but it seems probable the pawn shop acquired pieces of a\u00a0missile or seeker\u00a0mock-up.\u00a0 Still interesting, and it might make a great fighter pilot living room piece, but its not the major weapons purchase it was made out to be (though it seems to have generated the desired media attention).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few different entertainment news sources are reporting that the purveyors of the reality TV series Pawn Stars purchased a US Air Force air-to-air missile recently.\u00a0 As with many discussions of military hardware, its difficult to tell what, precisely, anyone is talking about: Sources confirm to FOX411 that the stars of the History Channel\u2019s reality show \u201cPawn Stars\u201d have purchased [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1574,134,1575,309,5285,1577,2,1576,1578],"class_list":["post-10174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aim-120","tag-air-force","tag-amraam","tag-f-4","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-history-channel","tag-military","tag-pawn-stars","tag-rick-harrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}