Some missiles were already in Cuba, along with surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles and the technicians to launch them (see “Cuba During the Missile Crisis,” p. 32). Kennedy was quarantining ...

It would be his last. 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.

When President Biden compared Russia's nuclear threat against Ukraine to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, it highlighted just how much that Cold War showdown continues to shape our collective psyche.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired surface-to-air missiles at a US fighter jet over the Red Sea in the first attack of its kind, Fox News reported Saturday. U.S. military officials are describing the ...

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 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 ...

Fighting off Russia's air force is dependent on Ukraine's surface-to-air missiles, a new report says. But leaked US intelligence shows that Ukraine's SAM inventory has reached critical levels.

and carrying surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, among other weapons systems. En route to Cuba, the Russian warships conducted drills in the Atlantic, the Russian Ministry of Defense ...

Major Emmett Tullia, callsign “Stroke 3,” famously dodged six surface-to-air missiles without functioning countermeasures, showcasing the intense physical and mental strain pilots endured.