Photos The Cold War

[Kadir93]

East German border guard (Grenzer), guarding Inter-German border.

 

[Kadir93]

Albanian People's Army trooper guarding the airfield.

 

[Redav]

61K views · 1K reactions | 🇷🇺🇺🇸During the peak of Cold War on 12 February 1988 USS Yorktown was rammed by Soviet frigate Bezzavetny in Black Sea after the destroyer trespassing Soviet territorial water. US destroyer was forced to change its course in

🇷🇺🇺🇸During the peak of Cold War on 12 February 1988 USS Yorktown was rammed by Soviet frigate Bezzavetny in Black Sea after the destroyer trespassing Soviet territorial water. US destroyer was forced...

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[Kadir93]

Turkish AB 205 or UH-1H Iroquois ferrying then PM Bülent Ecevit in Erzurum, July 1979.

 

[Redav]

A child of the cold war

MiG 23MF "20+05", 1991, with Luftwaffe insignia

 

[Kadir93]

Bulgarian Air and Air Defence Force MiG-29s, 1988-89 period.

 

[NebrHogger]

 

[TheKiwi]

That's an interesting looking aircraft. I can see why it'd lose out though, those lower engines are just asking for FOD damage.

 

[Kadir93]

On 20 May 1989, Soviet pilot Aleksandr Zuyev escaped from the Soviet Union with a MIG-29 jet and landed at Trabzon, Turkey. NATO was seeing a MiG-29 for the first time.

 

[Kadir93]

Soviet VDV paratroopers during a parade in October 23th 1970.

 

[BravoZulu]

British Warrior during Exercise Reforger 1985.

 

[NebrHogger]

 

[Redav]

K-1000 battleship was rumoured to be a type of advanced battleship produced by the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War. Soviet intelligence agencies actively encouraged the circulation of rumours about the type, which were reprinted by several Western journals including Jane's Fighting Ships.
The Soviet Union actively perpetrated the hoax class of warships. A Soviet 'fleet recognition manual' planted in the West seemed to confirm the existence and general features of the K-1000 Heavy Fleet Unit Sovetskaya Byelorussia, and that she was in commission from 10 November 1953. The accompanying drawings, showing two missile domes, six heavy guns and a cluster of lighter armament, gave a further veneer of accuracy to the document. In fact the drawings were a direct copy of the 1949–50 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships.

 

[Redav]

USS Kentucky Guided Missile Battleship

Last Iowa class battleship was never completed but because it was 73% completed there was planes to convert to missle cruiser

As early as 1946, missile conversion projects for Kentucky and the incomplete large cruiser USS Hawaii were discussed. In the early 1950s, the advances in guided missile technology led to a proposal to create a large warship armed with both guns and missiles. To this end, the incomplete Kentucky was chosen for conversion from an all gun ship into a "guided missile battleship". This proposal would have been relatively conservative, and would have involved the installation of a pair of twin arm launchers for the RIM-2 Terrier surface-to-air missile (SAM) on the aft deckhouse, with a pair of antennas for the associated AN/APG-55 pulse doppler interception radar installed forward of these, and the AN/SPS-2B air search radar on a short mast. Since the battleship was already approximately 73% complete (construction had been halted at the second deck), installation of the missile system and associated electronics would have involved only adding the necessary equipment without any need to rebuild the ship to accommodate the system. Some guided missile concepts included one or two launchers for eight SSM-N-9 Regulus II or SSM-N-2 Triton nuclear cruise missiles. The guided missile battleship project was authorized in 1954, and Kentucky was renumbered from BB-66 to BBG-1, with the conversion due to be complete in 1956. However, the project was soon cancelled, with the conversion ideas transferred to a smaller platform that led to the Boston-class guided missile cruiser. These partial conversions of two Baltimore-class heavy cruisers proved only partially successful in their new role, as the pace of change in cruise missile technology rendered their new weapons systems obsolete, while their remaining heavy guns proved in demand.

Another conversion project in early 1956 called for the installation of two Polaris nuclear ballistic missile launchers with a capacity for sixteen weapons. Also proposed were four RIM-8 Talos SAM launchers with eighty missiles per launcher and twelve RIM-24 Tartar SAM launchers with 504 missiles. A July 1956 estimate projected completing the ship by July 1961, but the cost of the conversion ultimately forced the Navy to abandon the project.

 

[TheKiwi]

Almost five times the crew requirements for only twice the launchers as a California class CGN. The big issue with the Iowa's was always the number of crew required compared to the roles they filled. (over 2600 crew for a standard Iowa, a BBG would probably require even more).

 

[NebrHogger]

 

[Kadir93]

Soviet and East German soldiers taking part in exercise “Shield-84” in Czechoslovakia.

 

[Kadir93]

Soviet T-54-1 out on march in the Kazakh SSR, 1st of June, 1970.

 

[Kadir93]

German Bundeswehr Leopard 1A4 MBT.

 

[Kadir93]

T-72B Obr. 1989 of the 4th Guards Tank Kantemirov Division in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Region, 1990.
(Picture is from Bundeswehr Visit to USSR).