{"id":160591,"date":"2024-12-23T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-military-aircraft-cuban-missile-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T17:00:17","slug":"the-military-aircraft-deployed-during-the-cuban-missile-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=160591","title":{"rendered":"The Military Aircraft Deployed During The Cuban Missile Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most scary times of the Cold War and is famously when the world came close to nuclear war. Fortunately, nuclear conflict never happened, and the crisis was resolved diplomatically with only one             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"712743\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Lockheed U-2<\/span><\/span> spy plane being shot down. Here are five of the more notable aircraft deployed during the crisis. Some 57 years later, some aircraft that took part in the missile crisis are still in service today         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027240\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/u-2-dragon-lady-meet-one-of-the-us-air-forces-oldest-cold-war-aircraft-still-operating\/\" >(like the venerable Lockheed U-2 &#8216;Dragon Lady&#8217;)<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wide range of aircraft were deployed to the Cuban Missile Crisis &#8211; from spy planes to nuclear-armed strategic bombers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6981,408,240,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-cuba","category-history","category-north-america","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.8 - 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