Cuban missile crisis: ... a U-2 spy plane taking reconnaissance photos was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Cuba. It had been 18 months since the failed Bay of Pigs mission, ...

Before you can control the skies, you have to take out what's defending them. Israel's strikes on Iran show how it's done.

As he flew over Banes, Cuba, his aircraft was hit by shrapnel from a Soviet-built Dvina surface-to-air missile (SAM). The fragmentation shredded his high-altitude pressure suit . (Lockheed Martin) ...

The Soviets also sent three fully-armed combat regiments to Cuba to fight alongside their Cuban allies. Khrushchev intended to keep the missile deployment secret until early November, when he ...

The missile fired at the American warplane did not hit its target, according to the report. 3 Houthi rebels fired surface-to-air missiles at a US F-16 fighter jet for the first time.

Surface-to-air missiles have been critical defensive weapons in the war in Ukraine. But reports show both Russia and Ukraine are also using SAMs to hit land targets. Both sides have repurposed ...

The kill zone for shoulder launched surface to air missiles is up to 1 miles. They are trying to hit helicopters or airplanes that are flying low. A SAM-5 surface to air missile is a larger missile ...

Missile technology responded, and by the late 1940s the first radar-guided surface-to-air missiles (SAM) appeared. These evolved rapidly and could soon reach stratospheric altitudes and bring down ...

The Soviets also sent three fully-armed combat regiments to Cuba to fight alongside their Cuban allies. Khrushchev intended to keep the missile deployment secret until early November, when he ...