Photos IFOR SFOR & KFOR - Peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia

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British SFOR

 

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Spanish sgt.1st class an expert marksman

Spanish marine in the forest of Duzi in Bosnia

 

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Romanian SFOR troops

 

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US & French SFOR troops

 

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Canadian peacekeepers in the Balkans, 1990s

 

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Romanian SFOR troops

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Romanian military personnel.

 

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KSK during KFOR operation, Kosovo 1999

 

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Serbian military police and British soldier during Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo in 1999

 

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German army column during the liberation of Kosovo.

A convoy drives past the Stankovac camp through a trellis of displaced persons

Prizren population waits for the arrival of the first convoy, the main contingent of the German brigade KFOR, which is marching in from Albania. A Fuchs transport tank secures the intersection of the streets and the bridge over the Prizrenska Bistrica - Detmar Modes / Bundeswehr)

 

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"Operation Grapple, circa 1994.

A Warrior FV510 IFV dug in along the Bosnia Herzegovina / Bosnian-Serb Army front line, north-east of Visoko.

The vehicle was actually "dug in" by Privates McNeal and Buckman from 'C' ( Northamptonshire) Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment.

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An FV 510 "Warrior" IFV of the British Army's UNPROFOR contingent in Bosnia, circa 1993.

Warriors on active operations received a standard fit of applique armour panels. As there were no firing ports as, for example, on the US Army's Bradley IFV, this was not an issue.

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An Alvis FV103 Spartan APC of the British Army's contingent of the UN Protection Force in Bosnia, circa 1993.

The Spartan was a part of the CVRT family of vehicles / Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked)... which also included the Scorpion and Scimitar light tanks.

Although this Spartan blends in well with the background, it's actually UN white rather than winter camouflage.

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"Juliet", the Warrior IFV used by Colonel Bob Stewart, Commander of 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, makes its way cautiously over a potentially unsafe bridge at Malankovici.

The Warrior is painted in the high visibility white colour scheme used to identify UNPROFOR vehicles in Bosnia.

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An FV 510 "Warrior" IFV of the British Army's UNPROFOR contingent in Bosnia, circa 1993.

Warriors on active operations received a standard fit of applique armour panels. As there were no firing ports as, for example, on the US Army's Bradley IFV, this was not an issue.

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There were no firing ports in the Chobham armour for the good and simple reason that there are no firing ports in the side of a Warrior.

The pic of Bonking Bob's waggon crossing the river was staged for the press. The Light Dragoons had already done it in their CVR(T) as had a couple of Warriors from one of the Cheshires' Rifle Companys. They knew it was perfectly safe.

 

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Land Rover Defenders finished in UN white on the quayside in Rimini, Italy, awaiting shipment to Bosnia, circa 1992.

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Austrian forces observing the Yugoslav border in expectation of a spillover, 1991

 

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Russian peacekeepers in Bosnia

 

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Russian with Serbian soldier - Pristina airport checkpoint