(Washington Times) One of the most advanced U.S. missiles was unintentionally shipped to Cuba in 2014, according to a report Thursday evening in the Wall Street Journal.
The Hellfire missile was supposed to be sent to Europe for a training mission, the Journal reported, cited people familiar with the matter.
Shipping such a sophisticated weapon to a communist dictatorship with which the U.S. at the time didn't have diplomatic relations and has been under U.S. embargo for a half-century would be among the worst mistakes of its kind in U.S. military history, the sources said.
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