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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Chinese missile warheads found on ship en-route to Cuba

S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline)Colombian authorities found a total of 99 Chinese-built missile warheads of unspecified type on 3 March during an inspection of Chinese-flagged merchant vessel Da Dan Xiu at Cartagena.

These were due to be delivered to Cuba.

The warheads may have been intended for use in a Cuban programme to develop modernised self-propelled versions of the Soviet-era S-75 Dvina (SA-2 'Guideline') and S-125 Neva (SA-3 'Goa') surface-to-air missile systems.

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