{"id":63730,"date":"2016-01-08T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63730"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:37:38","slug":"missing-us-missile-surfaces-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63730","title":{"rendered":"Missing US missile surfaces in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the Washington Times<\/a>, a missing inert Hellfire missile that was shipped, ostensibly, to Europe for training instead reappeared in Cuba and US officials aren’t sure how that happened.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the missile was inert and U.S. officials don\u2019t fear that Cuba could build Hellfire missiles on its own. But, while the U.S. doesn\u2019t yet know what Cuba did with the missing missile, some of the sensors and guidance equipment could have been shared with U.S. adversaries.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials also don\u2019t know whether the mistake was merely an innocent shipping error, or something nefarious.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid someone take a bribe to send it somewhere else? Was it an intelligence operation, or just a series of mistakes? That\u2019s what we\u2019ve been trying to figure out,\u201d one U.S. official told the Journal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since there is a boycott on stuff we ship to Cuba, especially military hardware, it’s logical to imagine that it wasn’t an error, but that it was done intentionally. BBC tells the tale of the circuitous trip taken by the missile;<\/p>\n

Quoting sources close to the investigation, the Wall Street Journal said that the missile had been shipped to Spain in early 2014 to be used in a Nato training exercise.<\/p>\n

It was then taken through Spain and Germany and eventually to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris where it was to be shipped back to Florida.<\/p>\n

However, it was instead loaded on to an Air France flight to the Cuban capital, Havana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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