You know how sometimes you bust out your winter coat and find $20 inside it from last winter and it totally makes your day? The Army just did that, but instead of $20, it was 27 ballistic missiles from the early 1990s, according to reports by Huntsville Alabama's WAAY TV.

The nuclear-tipped MGM-52 Lance missiles were found safe and sound in the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. But "found" may make it sound like the Army went looking for them. It seems, instead, that it simply forgot they were there. They were instead discovered during a headcount of the weapons in 2014, where the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command found them in an "igloo" on the south of the base.

According to WAAY TV:

Redstone Arsenal's Aviation and Missile Life Cycle management Command has successfully demilitarized 27 Lance Missiles, and they got the work down ahead of schedule. AMCOM officials say they did not even know the missiles were on post, stored inside igloos on the south side of the arsenal, until AMCOM did a thorough counting of all weapons in 2014. That's when the missiles were discovered.

The Lance weapons were first built in 1972, and were retired 20 years later in 1992. The missiles used a hydrozine propellant which made them especially combustible. The warheads ultimately served more as a deterrent than a combat weapon. It came in two varieties: conventional chemical explosive, and an atomic version that became known as the notorious neutron bomb. In the past few decades, the only action they've seen is target practice, which has depleted many of the leftover Lances.

Source: WAAY TV via War is Boring

This post has been updated to clarify the provenance of this report. Officials from Redstone Arsenal [link href='http://www.wsfa.com/story/30392750/officials-debunk-popular-mechanics-story-about-nuclear-missiles-on-arsenal' link_updater_label='external' target='_blank']refute the claim, saying the whereabouts of the missiles were known all along.

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