◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

ADocumentaryHistoryOfTheCubanMissileCrisis1962

354 pages · May 15, 2026 · Broad topic: War & Geopolitics · Topic: Cuban Missile Crisis · 354 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
26. (Continued) three remaining possibilities are: SS-N-l-+ a destroyer-launched cruise anti- | ‘ship homing missile launched from © 30 foot inclined rails:. With : destroyer radar, the effective. sys+ tem range 1s 20 to 30 nm, With the assistance of an air controller, the system range can be extended to 130: nm. This system could be installed at a shore site. SS-N-Z-- a Komar class patrol craft~launched eruise anti-ship homing missile, launched from inclined rails 25 to 30 feet long. With the Komar radar, the effective system range is 10 to 15 nm, This system could also be installed at a shore site. Eight KOMARS have been transferred to Cuba. §S-C-l-- the "missile-in-a-bottle", first shown in the 1961 Moscow 7 November parade, This missile is launched from an inclined ramp within a tube mounted on a large four axle truck, We know nothing of its guidance system, The missile probably has a range of about 150 nm, but pos- sibly it could be as much as 300 nm, This system could be installed at a fixed site. 5. Although none of the known Soviet cruise missile systems precisely fit the facility at Banes, we believe. it is more likely that the site is for a short range 25-30 NM missile system. The Whiff radar ‘seen at the site has not been noted with known cruise missile systems but could be used for target acquisition in this instal- lation, If the missile has an inertial guidance system and a means of target acquisition, the range of the mis- sile at the Banes site could be-extended to a range of about 130 nm,
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 86
Jump straight to page 86 of 354.
Reader
Cuban Missile Crisis Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the War & Geopolitics archive hub and the more specific Cuban Missile Crisis topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
pigs operation soviet control induce
Related subtopics
SOVIET PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN CUBA
2 documents · 1184 known pages
Subtopic
1P Ee
1 documents · 3 known pages
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic