Photos The Cold War

[BravoZulu]

US Army M60 gunner has a very "steely" look in West Germany - 1963
Note the rough texture on the shell of his M1 helmet. His M60 is on a pintle-mount in an M151 "MUTT".

 

[BravoZulu]

Soldier of the US 2nd Armored Division, 41st Infantry regiment, with his M14 (M) during Operation “Big Lift” - 1963

 

[Redav]

 

[uktabber]

Great picture mate, thanks for sharing!

 

[BravoZulu]

Chieftain Mk II during Ex Red Dragon 78, West Germany. Sept-Oct 1978

Alvis Scorpion FV101 during Red Dragon 78

 

[Redav]

Saab 35 darken

 

[NebrHogger]

In the quest for mobility during the cold war era, various ideas were tried. This one has bad idea written all over it!

 

[BravoZulu]

Schützenpanzer HS.30 IFV training with infantry in West Germany, 1979

 

[F.L.]

NATO Air Power in the 1960s :
AdA Mirage IIIC, RCAF, Luftwaffe, Netherland and Belgian F-104G, RAF Javelin & USAF F-105.

 

[NebrHogger]

Project 907 - Triton mini-subs used during the cold war. I recall news articles about them spying in Swedish harbors in the 70s.

https://en.topwar.ru/171876-sverhmalye-podlodki-semejstva-triton.html

 

[Redav]

NATO Air Power in the 1960s :
AdA Mirage IIIC, RCAF, Luftwaffe, Netherland and Belgian F-104G, RAF Javelin & USAF F-105.
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Maybe this was taken during the same ocasion?

A flight line with planes that belonged to different nationalities, a Mirage III of the French Air Force, four F-104 Starfighters, the first from the Luftwaffe, the second from the Belgian Air Force, the third from the Royal Canadian Air Force and the fourth from the Royal Dutch Air Force, followed by a Gloster Javelin from the British Royal Air Force and at the end an American F-105 Thunderchief…

 

[F.L.]

Maybe this was taken during the same ocasion ?

Yes, I also think.

 

[BravoZulu]

Armoured vehicle-launched bridge on manoeuvres in West Germany, 1980

 

[BravoZulu]

West German Leopard 1 tanks at a field base during Reforger 80

 

[BravoZulu]

M110 SPGs on fire support exercises with the II German Army Corps in Bavaria

 

[BravoZulu]

Panhard EBR armoured reconnaissance vehicle on exercises in West Germany, 1980

 

[BravoZulu]

M60 tanks take firing positions on a road in West Germany, 1980

 

[BravoZulu]

Captured M109 SPG (Object 39) from the Iran-Iraq War on trials in the USSR near Nizhny Novgorod, 1984

 

[BravoZulu]

British Chieftain tanks with dozer blades during NATO exercise Spearpoint 80

 

[BravoZulu]

US M48 Patton sharing public roads with civilian traffic in West Germany