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Soviet submarine B-59 (Russian: Б-59) was a Project 641 or Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy. B-59 was stationed near Cuba during the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and was pursued and harassed by US Navy vessels.
Soviet submarine B-59, in the Caribbean near Cuba. [4] On 27 October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of 11 United States Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph located the diesel-powered, nuclear-armed Foxtrot-class submarine B-59 near Cuba. (The B-59 was one of four Foxtrot submarines sent by the USSR to the area ...
Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
What become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union ever became of turning hot. MORE: Russian warships, nuclear submarine enter Havana ...
Project 641s played a central role in some of the most dramatic incidents of the Cuban Missile Crisis.The Soviet Navy deployed four Project 641 submarines to Cuba: B-4, B-36, B-59, and B-130 of the Soviet Sixty-Ninth Submarine Brigade. [6]
In 1962, Soviet missiles were planted on Cuban soil and photographed by spy planes leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis. This time, Russian nuclear submarines will be more difficult to track and to ...
October 2024 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those 13 days were the closest the world has come to nuclear war. Wartime decision-making is always difficult and fraught with ...
Norwegian rocket incident – a rocket carrying scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis that resembled a submarine-launched Trident missile; Vasily Arkhipov – the subject of another nuclear war-averting incident during the Cuban Missile Crisis; World War III – situations resulting in close encounters of a third world war