Bomb-sniffing dog discovers 2 Hellfire missiles bound for Portland

Oregon Live

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for Portland contained two missiles with explosive warheads on a passenger flight from Lebanon.

N1 television said the package with two guided armor-piercing missiles was discovered Saturday by a sniffer dog after an Air Serbia flight from Beirut landed at a Belgrade airport.  

Serbian media say documents listed the final destination for the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles as Portland. The American-made projectiles can be fired from air, sea or ground platforms against multiple targets.

The Serbian state news agency Tanjug reported that the missiles had been packed in wooden coffins and unloaded at the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, where they were inspected by bomb-sniffing dogs.

This type of missile was originally designed to be fired from a helicopter and was named Helicopter Launched, Fire and Forget Missile — later shortened to Hellfire.

The AGM-114 model is manufactured by Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrup Grumman. It weighs about 100 pounds and costs about $110,000 apiece. Most models use laser to home in on their targets, although one version of the AGM-114 relies on radar.

The FBI in Portland said it is looking into the reports.

“We don’t have any information on that yet,” Jennifer Adams, an FBI spokeswoman, said Sunday afternoon.

N1 reported Sunday that Air Serbia is helping in the investigation. The Serbian flag carrier says “security and safety are the main priorities for Air Serbia.”

— Staff and wire reports

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Jim

9 thoughts on “Bomb-sniffing dog discovers 2 Hellfire missiles bound for Portland

  1. From Wikipedia: The AGM-114 Hellfire is an air-to-surface missile (ASM) first developed for anti-armor use, but later models were developed for precision strikes against other target types, such as, in the case of a Predator drone, a high-value target, usually by the United States or other western nations.

  2. So we sent this present overseas as a gift to someone unknown. They are just being frugal and have tried to re-gift it to us. How kind of them. Stay out of planes for a while.

    1. Or Limousines.

      “anti-armor use, but later models were developed for precision strikes against other target types, such as, in the case of a Predator drone, a high-value target, usually by the United States or other western nations.”

      Trump is the highest-value target for the next year since he represents something that has not been seen or heard for a while.

  3. Most likely 2 of many that are headed here for Obama’s False Flag so we can kick off WW3 with the murder of Americans, and Americans actually believing Syria, Iran, Russia, China, or N.Korea actually want to attack us, allllllllllllllllll explained by yet another preposterous, hole-filled story…….
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      1. It’s pseudo Christians that advance war and live in fear.terrified of death because they dabbled in something odd and unknown without the intestinal fortitude to see it through.they lie not only to themselves but everyone they come in contact with.

    1. “Americans actually believing Syria, Iran, Russia, China, or N.Korea actually want to attack us”

      Americans out for revenge… You can win a World War with that.
      The question is what happens if that World War is completely in the US? The UN united against the population and their Constitution?

  4. “… a cargo package bound for Portland contained two missiles with explosive warheads on a passenger flight from Lebanon.”

    It was a ‘terrorist’ plot.

    They were going to be used to bust the Bundys & friends out of the hoosegow.

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