Photos Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989

[SamWell]

I do not know where to post it,so let it be here.
This is joint american and russian anti-drug operation in Afghanistan back in 2010

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Photos from a series of articles on Soviet aviation in Afghanistan by Viktor Markovsky. Most of the photos belong to him, too.
The names of the files are also the epigraphs, and are in my mother tongue, Spanish. Here the translations:
1- PKT Machine gun to be installed in a Mi-24.
2- Captain N. Gurtovoy as gunner inside a Mi-24В of 181st OBVP. Kunduz, spring 1986.
3- Recovery team posing next to the wreckage of a Mi-24. Engineer Leiko, Commander G. Pavlov and cameraman Malyshev.
4 and 5- Technicians doing maintenance on Mi-24s.
6- A Mi-24 of the 262nd EIA V-VS (piloted by Cap Nikolayev) was hit by DShK bullets, and managed to crashland into a hangar in Bagram, March 1987.
7 and 8- A Mi-24 prototype showing the addition of a cockpit designed to make this type less vulnerable to attacks from the rear hemisphere.

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Most from the aforementioned articles by V. Markovsky.

Two shots of the same Mi-24 while it was burning near Shivukala, 1988.

Mi-24 after emergency landing, checked by a recovery team, 1981. (G. Cherkasov).

Mi-24 in Kabul airport, 1988. (Photo credit: John Voos, via Shutterstock)

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Aeroflot´s aircraft in Afghanistan.

Antonov An-12.

An-12 of Aeroflot and An-26 of V-VS parked in Bagram.

The An-12 serial SSSR-11987 minutes before departure taking some pilots' corpses. According to Viktor Markovsky, this airplane was hit by a Stinger and had to return with one of its engines on fire.

An-12BKs parked in Bagram.

Personnel of 27th GvIAP in Bagram, with an Il-76 in the background.

Two shots of Ilyushin Il-76s in Kabul airport.

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Photo-gallery ANTONOV AN-12, Part 1.

Two BTR-70s approach an An-12, ready to repatriate the corpses of A. Zavaliev and E. Smirnov (crew of a downed Mi-8) on 30 December 1983.

An An-12 of 194th Regiment in Fergana (home base of the unit) during the war.

An-12 with engine and flat damaged by a Stinger. Kabul, December 1986.

An An-12 about to land in Kandahar.

An-12BK of 50th Regiment V-VS en Kandahar, Mi-8s of 280th AFP behind, during winter 1987.

An-12BK landing in Kunduz.

Two shots of wreckage of An-12 near Kabul airport. I think both images belong to the same aircraft.

Debris from an An-12 destroyed in the outskirts of Kabul.

 

[Newtonk]

For those interested, a new book Soviet Airborne - the 345th Regiment in Afghanistan. As seen at Safar-Publishing.com, it covers Uniforms and History of the Soviet Airborne: The 345th Regiment in Afghanistan, with input from Vets who were there. Promises to be a good read on a little known subject from the Russian perspective, and in English.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Для интересующихся новая книга Советский ВДВ - 345-й полк в Афганистане. Как видно на Safar-Publishing.com, он охватывает униформу и историю советских воздушно-десантных войск: 345-й полк в Афганистане с участием ветеранов, которые там были. Обещает быть хорошим чтением по малоизвестной теме с русской точки зрения и на английском языке.

 

[Newtonk]

Nothing like adding the comforts of home to your APC, the chair and rugs... But why is that guy on his knees?

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

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Nothing like adding the comforts of home to your APC, the chair and rugs... But why is that guy on his knees?

A tent is visible on the ground. Nearby there is an ax. Most likely they opened some kind of box, most likely a zinc box with ammunition

 

[Connaught Ranger]

A tent is visible on the ground. Nearby there is an ax. Most likely they opened some kind of box, most likely a zinc box with ammunition

or they lost the can opener for the rations and used the axe to open the tins

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

or they lost the can opener for the rations and used the axe to open the tins

A can opener for rations? We usually opened with a knife from the AK. Actually, it is only needed for two things - cutting barbed wire and opening cans. Okay, okay, just kidding.

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Interesting theory...

 

[BeNder]

Opening an ammo crate.

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Antonov An-12 Gallery, Part 2. Sorry for the long absence in between posts, but there was an outbreak of COVID-19 at home, and all five members of my family had to be secluded for the last week. But now I'm back into business.

Two pictures taken by journalists Valery Zufarov and Boris Kavashkin (TASS, via Getty Images) of An-12s V-VS in Kabul airport, 2 May 1988.

Close up first, and panoramic later of the installation of heat traps UB-26 on the fuselage of a An-12BK.

An-12BP of 50th Regiment undergoing maintenance or repairs in Kabul, winter 1987.

A former Aeroflot's An-12BP, now showing V-VS markings.

 

[Pablo Zampini]

Now it's time for some An-26s...

A casevac An-26 in Bagram airbase.

An Aeroflot's An-12 parked next to a V-VS An-26.

Soviet singer Lev Leshchenko walks down from a V-VS An-26 in Jalalabad. Next to him, the commander of 335th Regiment, Colonel Beshmelnov.

Two pictures of the damaged left engine of an An-26, caused by a Stinger during the approach to Kabul airport, 1987. (Photos by G. Donskich)

 

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[RL64RL]

Antonov An-12 Gallery, Part 2. Sorry for the long absence in between posts, but there was an outbreak of COVID-19 at home, and all five members of my family had to be secluded for the last week. But now I'm back into business.




Two pictures taken by journalists Valery Zufarov and Boris Kavashkin (TASS, via Getty Images) of An-12s V-VS in Kabul airport, 2 May 1988.




Close up first, and panoramic later of the installation of heat traps UB-26 on the fuselage of a An-12BK.


An-12BP of 50th Regiment undergoing maintenance or repairs in Kabul, winter 198
A former Aeroflot's An-12BP, now showing V-VS markings.

Now it's time for some An-26s...

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A casevac An-26 in Bagram airbase.

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An Aeroflot's An-12 parked next to a V-VS An-26.

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Soviet singer Lev Leshchenko walks down from a V-VS An-26 in Jalalabad. Next to him, the commander of 335th Regiment, Colonel Beshmelnov.

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Two pictures of the damaged left engine of an An-26, caused by a Stinger during the approach to Kabul airport, 1987. (Photos by G. Donskich)

Excellent posts!! Thank you!!