Homemade Missiles Not as Safe as Once Thought

This is what happens when a once great superpower slashes its military budget.

Americans, consider yourselves warned.

RUSSIAN authorities were today probing the freak death of a woman killed by a homemade missile launched by her husband.

The victim was looking on as her aviation-enthusiast spouse assembled his makeshift rocket in a field, RIA Novosti reported.

But the launch when horribly wrong when the missile blasted off and veered toward her, striking the woman in the head.

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"During the launch, the model rocket veered off course and hit his wife in the head. The woman died in the hospital," investigators said today.

The 42-year-old husband, who works for an aviation company, could face up to two years in prison for manslaughter, the state-owned Russian news agency said.

[News.com.au]