Could the U.S. Face a Cruise Missile Threat from the Gulf of Mexico?

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The United States is puzzling over how to block cruise missiles that theoretically could be launched from the Gulf of Mexico, even after throwing some of its most advanced technologies at the problem.

Russia and Iran have been cited as possible threats that might, at some point, lurk in the waters just off U.S. shores.

A 2013 military exercise pitted systems such as Patriot interceptors, Aegis warships and combat aircraft against potential cruise-missile or short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Gulf. But the drill highlighted a particular vulnerability to cruise missiles lobbed from that region, U.S. Northern Command head Gen. Charles Jacoby indicated in congressional testimony last week......"


[link to www.nationaljournal.com]

Of course, why else do you think Putin sent the warship to cuba a month ago? There's no doubt they've unloaded several missiles onto Cuban soil, aimed this way, waiting on orders to launch should they need/want to.