Oh awesome, this makes total sense. The UK’s Ministry of Defense is planning to install surface-to-air missiles on top of residential flats in east London for the duration of the Olympic Games. The bulk of the missile array is intended for the Lexington Building Water Tower, which has about 700 people living in and around it.

Says the BBC:

An east London estate has received leaflets saying a “Higher Velocity Missile system” could be placed on a water tower.
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The leaflet states that members of the Armed Forces will be at the location for a military exercise between 2 and 7 May.

It goes on to say there will be a “major national exercise” from 2 to 10 May to test the Armed Forces’ capabilities for providing security during the Olympics.

The document added that if the government decides to use the missiles during the Games, the soldiers could be “operationally deployed for a period of up to two months this summer”.

Because what east London really, really needs right now is a missile system capable of firing stuff at Mach 3 on top of a water tower near the Olympic park.

[Source: BBC]