Posted on 04/07/2005 12:22:20 PM PDT by mandingo republican
http://www.therealcuba.com/Missile1A.JPG http://www.therealcuba.com/Missile2.JPG
These unauthorized photos were taken by a tourist who, as he said in his e-mail to us, "sneaked out of the tourist area while visiting the Morro fortress" in Havana, Are these missiles operational? He says that he is 100% positive that they are. "They are behind the back wall. There is a military base there, as I saw jeeps approaching, I got the hell out of there pronto. It is a huge crime to photo things like that," he said. Maybe someone who is familiar with these type of missiles can identify them for us and provide information as to their range.
I remember reading that the left was always ready to poop in their pants when they saw pix of the mayday parade every year, saying the soviets would destroy us with such weapons... turned out that a lot of what the soviets had on display didn't work anyway
Yeah, really! And as if they're gonna launch a single SCUD at the U.S. Pretty laughable.
It is nice to see the Utopia that Elian Gonzalez had to go back to however!
yeah not only that, but its WAY too close to those buildings to be live. If those were to be launched, that building behind them would be toast.
Ol' Fidel's got the same problem nowadays...
Ah, the good old days!
Also, note from the Morro Castle picture, there is no place for a tranport truck to pull the SS-4 to, indicating that it is, most definitely, a static display.
As for field artillery in front of the town hall, my town was having a bit of a hard time with the neighboring town over zoning a large retail development. In the middle of this argy-bargy, the artillery piece in front of Town Hall was turned around in the middle of the night to face the direction of the proposed development. Nobody owned up to that one...
They could have at least Photoshopped them to make them look remotely ready to launch. Does anybody thing you would mow around live missiles? What if you hit a rock and flung it into the side of the missile.
No, we aren't the same person. I have a fan club - there is a Freeper called Fudd_Fan (or something close to it).
Scud like?
They look like Antiaircraft to me.
Museum pieces - inert.
The folks who run that website would be wise to remove those photos and stick to showing the run down nature of Cuba.
Both appear to be 60's vintage (Cuban Missile Crisis) to Vietnam-era weapons.
The smaller white one is the classic SA-2 (NATO name: GUIDELINE) Soviet medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile. This type of missile shot down Gary Powers in his U2 and was used with some success by the North Vietnamese. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/v-75.htm
The larger OD green one looks like some sort of SCUD variant. Neither one looks like it's actually functional.
That's why Juan was always selected to weed-eat around the thing.
The smaller one is definitely an SA-2 Guideline. That's the same '50's/60's/Vietnam-era SAM used to take down Francis Gary Powers' U-2, among others. It's useless without its associated Fansong fire-directing radar set. The SA-2 is very probably museum 'quality'. It does not appear that the entire launcher is there either.
I agree, they look like museum pieces for display.
Ole Feeble minded Fidel would think more than twice about doing this with this president.
He should have done it under Clinton. He'd have sent a peace mission under Jimmy Carter, we would have sued for terms of surrender and made restitution for 50 years of embargo..
This is way too close. Launching one would damage the other. I'll go with museum display.
To summarize: The big one is an SS-4 Medium Range Ballistic Missile, the smaller one is the SA-2 Surface To Air Missile. Neither one appears to be usable - both are missing major support equipment, and any electronics they may have had at one time or another are now useless.
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