How a US Hellfire missile wound up in Cuba

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Here's a headline you don't like to read: A missile belonging to the United States went missing in 2014. At the time, it was known to be a Hellfire missile that'd been sent to Europe for training purposes. Then, instead of being returned to the US... it just vanished. Fast forward two years: it is now reported to have been found in Cuba. So what happened? Devlin Barrett, of the Wall Street Journal, explains. Image: Airman 1st Class Ozzy Toma walks around an inert Hellfire missile as he performs a pre-flight check on an MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images