Missiles

U2 Spy planes took arial photographs

It was the height of the Cold War. There was serious mistrust between the Soviet Union and the US and many other western nations. Kennedy had military experience during WW 2, and as president he was involved in the then escalating conflict in Viet Nam. There was no way that he was going to allow the Soviets to arm a nuclear missile site in Cuba, just a few miles from US territory. He had to act decisively, and he did. He brought the crisis to an end without bloodshed. There is no doubt that he would have used force if the Soviets had pushed. We can all be very thankful that they did not.

Missiles travel at different speed depending on purpose . An average Tomahawk cruise missile will travel at about 550 mph- but in that case stealth and accuracy are paramount to speed. -Common anti aircraft missiles like Sidewinder travel about 2,100 mph above launch speed. The latest ASRAAM, as used by Australian and Royal Air Forces flies at about 2,800 above launch speed. Russia is reputed to have developed a ground based AAM that can fly over 10,000 mph

Russia placed missiles in Cuba during the cold war to provide counter attack if the USA. made a attack. The missiles were eventually moved out of Cuba when JFK won a debate between Fidel Castro, JFK, and Nikita Khrushchev.
because the U.S. already has missiles in turkey
The Soviet missiles were located in Cuba, because it was close enough to the Soviet enemy(US), and Fidel Castro was willing to put the missiles in his country.

We felt it was okay because we are who we are. A global power who feels it is acceptable to do whatever we feel like in the pursuit of "freedom". The missiles in Turkey were obsolete before the Cuban Missile Crisis began and President Kennedy had directed that they be removed. However the bureaucracy had not done that, creating the opportunity for the unflattering comparison. It is a matter of perspective and point of view. The Soviets would object to missiles in western Europe or in Turkey (first generation nuclear missiles placed there in 1949) as a provocation (much like the way current Russian leadership views the placement of missile defense technology in Poland & Czech Republic). Our policies in the post-WWII period were determined by the Truman Doctrine to contain communist expansion in Europe, but the Caribbean is our back yard, governed by our interests and the Monroe Doctrine. The placement of missiles in Cuba (after a failed attempt to overthrow Castro) was a surprise move, beyond what we would expect the Soviets to do in eastern Europe.

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There is no picture of any actual missiles in Cuba.. All the pictures are of sites and trucks and empty carriers and items covered up. The entire ploy was to get the US to remove Missiles from Turkey.

A spy plane took a picture of the where the missiles were being stored.

SS-4 medium range missile, SS-5 intermediate range missile, Luna ground-to-ground rockets, and the FKR cruise missile.

Everything South of Washington, DC and West to New Orleans was in range.

Yes, missiles from the Soviet Union were transported to and assembled in Cuba before the 1963 Cuban missile crisis.

In the documentary movie "The Fog of War", Robert McNamara (then the Secretary of Defense for the Kennedy administration) tells of a discussion of his in the 1990's with Cuba's leader Fidel Castro. McNamara recalls that Castro said he not only had nuclear warheads available on the island, but that he would have used them on the US if the US had invaded. Stunned by this McNamara asked if Castro would do this knowing full-well that the US would respond with overwhelming nuclear force, and Castro answered "Yes."

I recommend you read about the Cuban Missile Crisis on Wikipedia and there's an excellent little book on the Cold War titled "The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction" by Oxford university press.

The presence of Soviet Missiles on Cuba was a problem at the time because Cuba is only a few hundred miles from the US Coast, easily within reach. However, at the time the US had no Missiles that could reach the Soviet Union, so they could fire at us and we couldn't fire back.

I think its MOAB(Mother Of All Bombs)........

The most destructive missile would be the peace maker missile carried 12 nuclear warheads.

ICBM's (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles) can cross continents with effective ranges of about 3,500 miles.

The Army does have fixed winged aircraft.

The Army Does Not have ARMED fixed-winged aircraft. It does Not have fixed-wing aircraft armed with guns, missiles, rockets and/or bombs. Next time, read the question.

There are several differences. A ballistic missile is rocket powered, takes off straight up, and the warhead falls to its target. A cruise missile is jet powered with wings, like an airplane without a pilot, and it flies following the earth until it reaches its target, whereupon the warhead is detonated.

Ballistic missiles hit their target using a rocket-assisted ballistic parabola and is a form of indirect fire. This means that the warhead is boosted on the upward journey, and uses the momentum from the launch to reach the target. Missiles don't have to be rocket-assisted, but it greatly increases their range. A cruise missile heads directly towards its target using aerofoils like an aircraft to follow a pre-programmed route to the target, the downfall is that the range is significantly smaller.

The difference between a missile and a torpedo is that a torpedo travels in the waters and a missile flys through the air.

The fastest missile is the Russian-made Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 27 (over 20,000 mph). This missile is designed to travel at hypersonic speeds, making it extremely difficult to intercept by conventional missile defense systems.

Yes. Probes have already be sent to the Moon, and other planets; this requires a velocity very near the escape velocity from Earth. Other probes are leaving the Solar System, so they achieved the much higher escape velocity required to escape the attraction from the Sun.

The purpose of Agent Orange was to DEPRIVE the enemy of cover and concealment (vegetation).

No such requirement existed in the US during the Vietnam War.

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The V1 used an air breathing pulse jet engine. It burned a form of kerosene and air. Acetylene gas was used to help start the engine. The ground launched version used a steam catapult to get the V-1 to flying speed. These used hydrogen peroxide and potassium permanganate to generate steam.

The United States of America is the world super power having the highest advanced military in the World. It has the biggest economy in the world, next to China, then Japan.

Countries that are "enemies" to the United States would be North Korea reaching Alaska and maybe some Western Coast areas. Countries that the US are uneasy about would be Russia, China, and Cuba.

Yes, an arrow is considered a type of missile. In military terminology, a missile is any projectile that is launched or propelled, and arrows fit this definition as they are designed to be shot from a bow. Like other missiles, arrows are intended to hit a target, making them a specific category of projectile weapons.