Photos The Cold War

[berkut76]

Abandoned underground air bases in Eastern Europe.
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Albania or former Yugoslavia?

 

[morris]

Albania or former Yugoslavia?

There is some sign on the wall but I can't make out the language.

 

[berkut76]

There is some sign on the wall but I can't make out the language.
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Thanks. Albania for sure.

 

[BravoZulu]

A Norwegian Army anti-aircraft unit, equipped with the Swedish made RBS-70 MANPADS, searches for any possible enemy aircraft on the horizon during a mock field exercise; southern Norway, late 1980s

Finnish anti tank section with a soviet made 9M111 'Fagot' anti tank guided missile

 

[BravoZulu]

KGB Alpha Group special forces posing for a photo in the 80's

 

[morris]

KGB Alpha Group special forces posing for a photo in the 80's

 

[BravoZulu]

A USAF test pilot demonstrates the Lockheed XF-104's downwards-firing ejection seat

 

[uktabber]

That is a death trap mate! The high speed slipstream catches that surfboard at the bottom and in a 1/2 sec slams your head forward into the front of the hatch....... You couldn't wear enough helmets to protect your head from that smashing, not to mention the outcome of a low-level ejection!

 

[berkut76]

KGB Alpha Group special forces posing for a photo in the 80's

Interesting in terms of location. The license plates are not Soviet, although the cars are.

 

[morris]

That is a death trap mate! The high speed slipstream catches that surfboard at the bottom and in a 1/2 sec slams your head forward into the front of the hatch....... You couldn't wear enough helmets to protect your head from that smashing, not to mention the outcome of a low-level ejection!

Early models of the F-104 Starfighter were equipped with a Downward Track ejection seat, also two of the six ejection seats on the B-52 Stratofortress fire downward, through hatch openings on the bottom of the aircraft.

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[morris]

Interesting in terms of location. The license plates are not Soviet, although the cars are.

Some place where Latin script was used, may be a Baltic republic or a Warsaw pact country.

 

[berkut76]

Some place where Latin script was used, may be a Baltic republic or a Warsaw pact country.

No, most likely India or Afghanistan

 

[Fluff]

That is a death trap mate! The high speed slipstream catches that surfboard at the bottom and in a 1/2 sec slams your head forward into the front of the hatch....... You couldn't wear enough helmets to protect your head from that smashing, not to mention the outcome of a low-level ejection!

what were they thinking........The bombers I can get that most of the time they are at 50000 feet. But the time you need that seat is usually close to the ground, which even today, aircraft do still get close the ground.....

 

[morris]

No, most likely India or Afghanistan

The car is from soviet diplomatic corps, the man dressed in full suit is soviet diplomat, may be military attache, the man next to him is security with the embassy, three others just arrived or may be ready to depart.

Some more photographs of some of them

 

[BravoZulu]

Project 1143 "Kiev", overflown by USN P-3C in the Mediterranean Sea, January 1980. Photo by Yu.N. Gavrish

A starboard bow view of Soviet Project 956 "Sarych" (Sovremenny class) destroyer Otchayannyy (#460) on the Mediterranean Sea, August 1986.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

There is some sign on the wall but I can't make out the language.
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Željava Airbase: The Abandoned Yugoslav Airport Inside a Mountain

A tour of Object 505, the huge underground complex at Željava Airbase, Croatia. History, maps, archive images & modern photography.

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[nemipuka_]

Communist era training video of the Bulgarian Committee for State Security, titled "surveillance and action"

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[morris]

May Day Parade in Tel Aviv, 1947

Color by Klimbim

 

[guest0001]

Time for some "neutrality"!!! Swiss Mirage III, 1970s.

 

[guest0001]

Heavily armed British ground crew pose in front of a SEPECAT Jaguar Gr.1 attack aircraft parked in front of its hardened aircraft shelter at RAF Bruggen (West Germany) in August 1977. The troops are armed with 9X19mm Sterling L2A3 (Mark 4) submachine guns and 7.62×51mm L1A1 SLRs. They are wearing Avon Service Respirator No. 6 (S6) gas masks, steel Mark V helmets and Mark III NBC suits. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)