EXCLUSIVE: Are We Already in the Middle of a Second Cuban Missile Crisis?
A Russian Naval Task Force will be visiting Cuba this month. During the Cold War, Russian long-range bombers and naval vessels routinely visited Cuba, but since those times, the visits have been few.
The naval task force is rather modest, a frigate (a small-er ocean-going surface warship), a nuclear submarine, a tanker, and a large tug. Cuban officials said the ships are not armed with nuclear weapons.
The frigate and submarine combined can carry up to 80 Zircon hypersonic missiles between them, which at the Zircon’s maximum known range of 620 miles could hit a U.S. target in less than eight minutes. They could simultaneously devastate the two major U.S. Navy East Coast bases of Norfolk and Mayport with no notice.
