Photos Soviet Armed Forces

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Some images from exercise "Zapad-81"

 

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Soviet soldiers with a 9K72 tactical ballistic missile

 

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An Mi-6 of the GSFG (Group of Soviet Forces Germany), late 1980's

 

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Soviet VDV with RPG-16 anti-tank weapon, early 1980's

 

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Soviet Naval Infantry, 1980's

 

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Soviet Soldier aiming an SVD, 1970's-80's

Soviet soldier aiming an RPG-16 anti-tank weapon, 1970's

Soviet Soldiers advancing with a BTR-60P, 1970's

Soviet Soldiers pose on a BTR-40 APC, 1960's

Soviet Soldiers patrol in the southern regions of the USSR, 1960's

Soviet Motor-Rifle troops dismount from a BTR-152 APC, Mid-1960's

Soviet MVD Counter-Terrorism operatives with SVD rifles, 1980's

 

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Soviet VDV troopers man a ZU-23-2 23mm Anti-Aircraft gun, while Mi-24 helicopers and armoured vehicles advance in the distance, 1970's

Soviet Soldiers, 1950's

Soviet soldiers during training, 1950's

Soviet Soldier aiming an SKS Carbine, 1950's

Soviet troops with a BTR-40 APC, with an Mi-6 in the background, circa 1960

Soviet Airborne (VDV) troopers armed with 9K32 'Strela' Anti-Aircraft Missiles, 1980's

Soviet VDV BMD-1, East Germany, 1980's

Soviet RPG-7 team in action, 1970's

Soviet troops during field exercises with a BMP-1, 1980's

A Soviet 240mm Mortar, 1970s

Soviet BTR-152s during field exercises in Bulgaria, late 1960's

Soviet D-20 Howitzer Crew, 1970's-80's

Soviet troops riding a T-55 tank during field exercises, early 1970's

Soviet Soldiers during field exercises, early 1970's

Soviet Motorized Infantry during field exercises, early 1970's

Soviet mechanized infantry during field exercises, early 1970's

Soviet Motorized Rifle troops during field exercises, sometime, 1980's

Soviet Motorized Infantry during field exercises, Odessa Military District, 1988

Soviet Motorized Infantry wearing a mix of KZS and KLMK Camouflage over suits, late 1970's-80's.

Soviet Mountain Soldier firing an RPK-74 during the exercise 'Kavkaz 1985', Georgian SSR

 

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T-72's during the October Revolution Day parade, Red Square, 1983

 

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Images from the 1964 victory day parade at the Red Square

2K17 missile system

S-75 Dvina based on ZIL-157V

BTR-60P

8K63 theatre ballistic missile

2P32 tank destroyers

M-46 130mm towed field gun

R-5 Pobeda medium range ballistic missile

T-54/55

BRDM-1

D-6 submarine launched ballistic missile

ASU-85

S-23 180mm heavy gun

BTR-50

2K11 Krug medium-range SAM

ZSU-57-2

 

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VDV

 

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Some images of the Soviet Border Troops

Finnish and Soviet border guards take a break together, 1980's

Soviet border guards patrolling the USSR-China border near Khorgos, 1984

Soviet Border Guards on the Tajik-Afghan Border, 1980's

 

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A Mil Mi-6 helicopter on the flight deck of the Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev, Severomorsk, mid-1970's

 

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Soviet Kanin-class destroyer "Boyky” in the Mediterranean Sea, 1978

 

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T-64's

 

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Soviet soldiers training with a Strela-2 MANPADS

 

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Soviet VDV, 1980's

 

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Soviet army BRDM-1 vehicles on parade in Berlin, 1 May 1960

 

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What is that weapon held by the guy in the foreground ?

 

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What is that weapon held by the guy in the foreground ?

It looks like an AKS-74u