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Mitsubishi Once Made a Wilder Rocket-Launching Scooter to Compete with Vespa's

Everyone knows about Vespa's 150 Tap, the tank-busting, rocket-firing scooter. It's an icon and a testament to the old adage, "Everything's a technical." I mean, if you can turn something like a Vespa scooter, something that's meant to be driven carefree through the streets of Rome in search of a great espresso, into a weapon of war, nothing's off limits. 

Everything can become a technical if you believe hard enough, know a good welder, and have access to some sort of large firearms. 

But did you know that the Vespa wasn't the only rocket-firing scooter to be made? Did you know that the Taiwanese military once built a rocket-launching Mitsubishi scooter, one that was perhaps even wilder in its form factor than even the Vespa 150 Tap? Why was it wilder you ask? Because you literally straddled the 75mm rocket tube. 

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