Fifty years ago, a United States Air Force U-2 spyplane captured photographic proof that the Soviet Union was installing offensive nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and a diplomatic standoff ensued.

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, ...

Fifty years ago this week, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. On October 14, 1962, a U.S. reconnaissance mission discovered medium-range ballistic missile sites in Cuba. The 13 days ...

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 Cuban missile crisis, recalled Robert F. Kennedy, was “a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the US and the USSR, which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction ...

The BARAK MX, developed by IAI, is an advanced air and missile defense system designed to counter a wide range of threats, ...

Typically, a surface-to-air battery missile consists of a command post vehicle, a radar vehicle, several self-propelled launchers, loader vehicles and even more vehicles to carry new missiles to ...

A U.S. official told the New York Times that a missile from a SA-15 air defense system shot down the plane. The system can operate in autonomous mode, according to a Missile Defense Advocacy ...

The Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile, or ASRAAM, has been successfully reconfigured to function as a surface-to-air missile. Air Commodore Blythe Crawford, Commandant for the UK’s Air and ...