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U.S. regains Hellfire air-to-ground missile from Cuba
Source; Reuters
Politics | Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:16pm EST
U.S. regains Hellfire air-to-ground missile from Cuba
WASHINGTON
The U.S. State Department said on Saturday that the United States has regained an inert but errant Hellfire air-to-ground missile that had mistakenly ended up in Cuba.
"We can say, without speaking to specifics, that the inert training missile has been returned with the cooperation of the Cuban government," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.
A team from Lockheed Martin Corp, which makes the missile, traveled to Cuba to retrieve it, a congressional source said.
Lockheed Martin Corp spokesman Bill Phelps declined comment.
The missile had been sent to Europe for a training exercise in 2014 but somehow ended up in Cuba, an embarrassing loss of military technology, the Wall Street Journal reported last month.
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U.S. regains Hellfire air-to-ground missile from Cuba
WASHINGTON
The U.S. State Department said on Saturday that the United States has regained an inert but errant Hellfire air-to-ground missile that had mistakenly ended up in Cuba.
"We can say, without speaking to specifics, that the inert training missile has been returned with the cooperation of the Cuban government," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.
A team from Lockheed Martin Corp, which makes the missile, traveled to Cuba to retrieve it, a congressional source said.
Lockheed Martin Corp spokesman Bill Phelps declined comment.
The missile had been sent to Europe for a training exercise in 2014 but somehow ended up in Cuba, an embarrassing loss of military technology, the Wall Street Journal reported last month.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cuba-missile-idUSKCN0VM0VN
