Shoshana Bryen, PJ Media: The 'New Cuban Missile Crisis' Mystery Deepens
A U.S. Hellfire anti-tank missile -- a weapon launched from Predator drones in anti-terrorism operations, among other uses -- found its way into the hands of Cuba’s government in 2014.
But the route it took, twice crossing the Atlantic, was less mysterious than the U.S. government’s public response to the discovery that front-line American military equipment made it to Havana -- or beyond.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a missile shipped by Lockheed Martin to Spain for a NATO exercise was supposed to be put on a flight from Madrid to Frankfurt and then back to the United States. Wrote the Journal:
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Update: US Hellfire Missile Mistakenly Shipped to Cuba
WNU Editor: A very strange response from the State Department Spokesman John Kirby (see above video).
2 comments:
Who cares its 2 anti armour missile not a nuke.
fazman,
It's a "practice" round with no propellant and no warhead.
It does however have all the electronics, the seeker head and the guidance system, basically everything that makes it a missile and not a rocket.
There are two concerns with this event,
- did Cuba have the missile long enough to reverse engineer the missile?
- how did such an important and classified piece of technology wind up being so mishandled and lost?
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