Photos The Cold War

[Connaught Ranger]

A soldier armed with an "AK clone" - PM md 65 stands at a checkpoint at the Bucharest airport. Romania, December 31, 1989.

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He has removed the insignia from his cap to show allegiance with the people during the 1989 Revolution.

 

[SamWell]

soviet soldiers drive child-bear away from the gate of their unit circa.Тransbaikal mid-80s

 

[BravoZulu]

9th May 1960. Handley Page Victor strategic bomber making an appearance at the Technicians' Day at the Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Annual Show at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, Hampshire

 

[BravoZulu]

English Electric Lightning F3 of 111 (Treble One) Squadron Royal Air Force
Registration: XR748

 

[uktabber]

Oh bloody beautiful.....the mighty Victor and the ready Lightening, two of Britons best!!

 

[BravoZulu]

Czechoslovak Air Force personnel in full protection outfits with long 'trunks' scrub an IL-28 during an NBC exercise. On the right a decontamination vehicle on a Praga V3S army truck chassis

 

[SamWell]

Soviet infantry in 1971

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Pupil of the Suvorov Military School. THE H O R R O R OF COMMUNISM, URGENTLY WRITE IT AS A VICTIM!!

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[BravoZulu]

In October 1981, the Soviet submarine S-363 accidentally hit an underwater rock about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the main Swedish naval base at Karlskrona, surfacing within Swedish waters. The boat's presence coincided with a Swedish naval exercise, testing new equipment, in the area. Swedish naval forces reacted to the breach of sovereignty by sending an unarmed naval officer aboard the boat to meet the captain and demand an explanation. The captain initially claimed that simultaneous failures of navigational equipment had caused the boat to get lost (despite the fact that the boat had already somehow navigated through a treacherous series of rocks, straits, and islands to get so close to the naval base). The Soviet Navy would later issue a conflicting statement claiming that the boat had been forced into Swedish waters due to severe distress, although the boat had never sent a distress signal, and instead attempted to escape

As the Soviet captain was being interrogated, the weather turned bad and the Soviet submarine sent a distress call. In Swedish radar control centres, the storm interfered with the radar image. Soviet jamming could also have been a factor. As the Soviet submarine sent its distress call, two ships coming from the direction of the nearby Soviet armada were detected passing the 12-nautical-mile (22 km) limit headed for Karlskrona.

This produced the most dangerous period of the crisis and is the time where the Swedish Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin gave his order to "Hold the border" to the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Lennart Ljung. The coastal batteries, now fully manned as well as the mobile coastal artillery guns and mine stations, went to "Action Stations". The Swedish Air Force scrambled strike aircraft armed with modern anti-ship missiles and reconnaissance aircraft knowing that the weather did not allow rescue helicopters to fly in the event of an engagement. After a tense 20 minutes, General Ljung called Prime Minister Fälldin again and informed him that it was not Soviet surface ships but two German merchant ships.

The boat was stuck on the rock for nearly 10 days. On 5 November it was hauled off the rocks by Swedish tugs and escorted to international waters where it was handed over to the Soviet fleet.

 

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13 May 1985. A US Army M60A2 tank rolls off a LARC-LX (Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo, 60 ton) amphibious cargo vehicle during the Army Logistics Exposition PROLOG '85.

 

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10 August 1961. A USAF Republic F-105D Thunderchief fighter/bomber carrying the largest ever payload for a single-engine aircraft, 14,000 pounds (6,350.3 kilograms).

 

[SamWell]

Soviet and Chechoslovak soldiers,circa mid 70s

 

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USA. 1 August 1989. A Bundesmarine Panavia Tornado IDS (Interdictor/Strike) of Marinefliegergeschwader 1 (MFG 1) (Naval Fighter Wing 1) lands at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.

 

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New USAF recruits at Lackland AFB, Tx., circa 1951.
Standards were evidently exacting!
(LIFE / Dean)

 

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Occupied West Berlin, circa 1952.
In the background is the battle-scarred Brandenberger Tor.
(LIFE / Mydans)

 

[BravoZulu]

66 T-55 tanks on Nusle Bridge in Prague during endurance test, November 1970.

 

[BravoZulu]

19 June 1959, resistance testing of the highway bridge over the Po river near Piacenza city; with the transit of 46 ton M47Patton tanks of the Italian Army and 22 ton loaded trucks.

 

[BravoZulu]

Norwegian Air Force 336 Skv Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter 902 (1993)

 

[SamWell]

Soviet and Chechoslovak officers drinking cognac circa mid 70s