Image of the day "Soviet missile launch site during Cuban Missile Crisis "

This is a low altitude image taken by U-2 reconnaissance plane during Cuban Missile Crisis in October 23, 1962. The image showed several detail of missile launch facility that Soviet Union secretly constructed in Cuban. All suspected features are labeled . vehicle trails were clearly visible in the whole image, several vehicles also exist near the trails. These features indicated the area had heavy traffic recently, and these vehicles were support vehicles for the launch site . The long tent structure is uncommon compare to tents for barracks. The intelligent analyst suspected this was a tent use to protect missile. The information given by this and other images made EXCOMM ( Executive Committee of the National Security Council) assume Soviet missiles were becoming real threat.


https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/10/50-years-ago-the-cuban-missile-crisis/100387/