US Hellfire missile "accidentally" shipped to Cuba! - Jan. 2016

[CougarKing]

This is not what the some hawkish US politicians meant when they said they wanted to make sure Castro went "Postal" !

BBC

US Hellfire missile wrongly shipped to Cuba

    8 January 2016
    From the section US & Canada

An inert US Hellfire missile sent to Europe for a training exercise was wrongly shipped on to Cuba, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The incident in 2014 could have led to a serious loss of military technology, officials told the paper.

US officials have since been trying to get Cuba to return the missile, which did not contain explosives.

Investigators are unclear if the incident was an error or the result of espionage, the paper says

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[my72jeep]

How does one ship a missile to Cuba accidentally with out pressing the fire control button?

 

[Colin Parkinson]

that's going to leave a mark on someones career

 

[daftandbarmy]

How does one ship a missile to Cuba accidentally with out pressing the fire control button?

Someone obviously didn't pass the same CTAT test that I had to take in a small classroom in Prince George in the winter time, which was supposed to stop these kinds of things happening, cold.

 

[George Wallace]

Someone obviously didn't pass the same CTAT test that I had to take in a small classroom in Prince George in the winter time, which was supposed to stop these kinds of things happening, cold.

Only Feroners need to take that test.  Them's thats inside the Continental US don't hafta.    [Xp

 

[Scoobie Newbie]

Someone obviously didn't pass the same CTAT test that I had to take in a small classroom in Prince George in the winter time, which was supposed to stop these kinds of things happening, cold.

And here I am denting 25mm cart cases for demil for some fucking reason before it goes 20mm up the road to be melted down.

 

[CougarKing]

And it has been returned: (and all this time it was just a dummy round?)

Defense News

Cuba Returns Lost Dummy Missile To US
Agence France-Presse 4:19 p.m. EST February 14, 2016


WASHINGTON — The United States has recovered a missile that was accidentally sent to Cuba in 2014 after a logistical mix-up in Europe, bringing an end to an unusual and sensitive episode in the world of defense.

The dummy training version of a US Hellfire missile was returned to the US with the “cooperation of the Cuban government,” State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said Saturday, declining to provide specifics.


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[Old Sweat]

Indeed it was, but it may well have had circuitry to simulate various functions including some that would have to be verified before loading on the aircraft and while it was being armed in flight. Just a guess from a guy who's electronic ability peaked at changing smoke detector batteries.