Photos Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Dust on Afghan roads was sometimes a major problem for Soviet soldiers. In this photo, we can see the use of an individual anti-dust respirator "R-2". I can't imagine how much dust there was if the soldier was forced to carry this "muzzle".

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Добрый дядька. Позитивный

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[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Senior Lieutenant from Odessa Sergey Gaiduk, one of the heroes of the American documentary about the Soviet contingent in Afghanistan AFGAN: The Soviet Experience (1989). The one who boldly drove along the dusty Afghan roads on armored personnel carriers in sunglasses and a helmet. He left Afghani safe and sound, already a captain, on February 7, 1989.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[BravoZulu]

Mujahideen boy from Nuristan Province

 

[BravoZulu]

A pair of photographers behind a KPV heavy machine gun

 

[SamWell]

A pair of photographers behind a KPV heavy machine gun
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What camo pattern this mudj are wearing?

 

[Pablo Zampini]

All these time I was downloading all the pictures in this thread, and I also learnt a lot.
Now it is my time to contribute with some photos I took from a couple of Spanish fascicles collections named Máquinas de Guerra (War Machines) and Aviones de Guerra (War Airplanes). I suppose they were the translation of some eponymous British series; here the images...

Two Mi-24s in Kabul airport. One "Hind-A" of Soviet V-VS (front) and one "Hind-D" of Afghan armed forces (back).

One of the first high quality pictures of Mi-24P in Afghanistan that reached the West. Credit: A. de Widenberg.

A huge Aeroflot´s An-22 "Cook" taxiing in Bagram air base.

The Mujahideen took advantage of all military equipment that fell into their hands. Here the hull of a shotdown Afghan Mi-8 helicopter... transformed into a bus!

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Delivery #2.

A Antonov An-12 being unloaded in an Afghan air base.

A V-VS Mi-8 takes off while two other Mi-8s (one Afghan, the second Aeroflot´s) stay parked on the ground.

This Mujahideen poses triumphant on an Afghan Mi-4 that was shot down.

Line of three Aeroflot´s Ilyushin Il-76s being unloaded in Bagram air base.

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Two photos of Mujahideen showing captured Soviet weaponry: AKM, AK-74, RPG-7s...

 

[SamWell]

soviet private from reconnaissance squad of 56th Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade in Afghanistan circa 1984