<p>The 70mm Flechette rocket travelled 3,500 miles from Afghanistan to an RAF base inside an ordinary package, The Sun reported Wednesday. <br /><br />The package was opened at Wattisham Airfield, in Suffolk, where over 70 defence workers had to be evacuated after the missile was noticed. <br /><br />The missile, which is used by Apache helicopter crews, is considered one of the most powerful rockets in the world. <br /><br />The incident took place two years ago and came to light now after a Freedom of Information request.</p>.<p>Engineers servicing a gunship chopper at Camp Bastion declared its missile launcher broken. But they did not notice it had a missile in it, show the Ministry of Defence documents.<br /><br />The weapon was then packaged and sent to Britain as a "non-dangerous" item. <br />An inquiry found it was a "wholly avoidable" incident. <br /><br />"We have made every effort to address certain procedural shortfalls highlighted by the incident and there has been no repeat of the incident to date," a spokeswoman of the Ministry of Defence was quoted as saying.</p>
<p>The 70mm Flechette rocket travelled 3,500 miles from Afghanistan to an RAF base inside an ordinary package, The Sun reported Wednesday. <br /><br />The package was opened at Wattisham Airfield, in Suffolk, where over 70 defence workers had to be evacuated after the missile was noticed. <br /><br />The missile, which is used by Apache helicopter crews, is considered one of the most powerful rockets in the world. <br /><br />The incident took place two years ago and came to light now after a Freedom of Information request.</p>.<p>Engineers servicing a gunship chopper at Camp Bastion declared its missile launcher broken. But they did not notice it had a missile in it, show the Ministry of Defence documents.<br /><br />The weapon was then packaged and sent to Britain as a "non-dangerous" item. <br />An inquiry found it was a "wholly avoidable" incident. <br /><br />"We have made every effort to address certain procedural shortfalls highlighted by the incident and there has been no repeat of the incident to date," a spokeswoman of the Ministry of Defence was quoted as saying.</p>