Photos Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989

[berkut76]

Probably cleans the burrs off, improves functioning...…...

......probably in a hurry to get the prize job of filling up the antifreeze on the MIG 25......pure ethanol, and it was officially advised through the RAF that they were drinking it...…..

Absolutely true. "Creative" solutions to anti-alcohol campaign. Not an anti-freeze, though. radar cooling liquid.

 

[uktabber]

The tolerances on those Soviet machineguns are so loose that dirt probably wouldn't have matter one bit........ But still shocking none the less!

 

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Soviet soldiers returning from Afghanistan. 20 October 1986, Kushka, Turkmen SSR

 

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56 Air Assault Brigade, 1981-82

 

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The most famous American character involved in the Soviet-Afghan War, Charles Nesbitt Wilson

 

[berkut76]

MiG-23MLD 1987

 

[uktabber]

U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson (of TX) note the cowboy boots on him in the MG pic

 

[Stormovik]

317 Separated Detachment of Special Purpose

 

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village destroyed by Soviets

 

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Mujahideen

Captured Russian guns

 

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"The last Soviet unit stands stationary during a military parade on the tarmac of Kabul airport, just before leaving Afghanistan for the last time on Feb. 13, 1989".

ANA soldier

 

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A Soviet Soldier smoking a cigarette, overlooking the local Civilian population. Soviet–Afghan War 1984.

 

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Red Army sniper armed with the Dragunov SVD-63.

 

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A Soviet Army sniper team armed with the Dragunov SVD-63.

 

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Russian crew pose with their BMR-2 mine clearing tank. Based on the T-55 chassis, she entered service in 1987.

 

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A Soviet Air Force MiG-23ML Flogger fighter/bomber from the 979th Fighter Air Regiment. [Source: Sergei Ivanovic Buteska collection]

 

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Afghan Mujahideen with an Enfield

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2S9 Nona SPG during the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

 

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Russian crew pose with their BMR-2 mine clearing tank. Based on the T-55 chassis, she entered service in 1987.

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Ha! Notice the chap to the left in the background among the rocks reading the paper......hmmmmm
Dialogue Translation: остановить остановку я должен какашки

 

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Mi-24 navigator, Afghanistan, 1980s