Photos The Cold War

Members of the 3rd Bn., 22nd Inf., 25th Inf. Div., carry their skis while snowshoeing single file across a field during exercise Northwind '87. Members of the 25th Infantry Division are undergoing 23 days of special cold weather training with members of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force in the Kotani and Hirosaki Training Areas.

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Red Eagles - America's Secret MiG Squadron. "Red 49" MiG-23 Flogger on the Tonopah ramp, Nevada 1988. The top-secret unit was commanded by Colonel Gail Peck callsign EVIL
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4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron MiG-21 Fishbed with USAF paint scheme manoeuvring over the Mojave Desert.
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A group of Romanian soldiers with defaced Romanian flags on their tanks and APCs (to show opposition on Ceausescu's government as the military defected to the revolutionary side) during the Romanian Revolution, December 1989.
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Red Eagles - America's Secret MiG Squadron. "Red 49" MiG-23 Flogger on the Tonopah ramp, Nevada 1988. The top-secret unit was commanded by Colonel Gail Peck callsign EVIL
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4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron MiG-21 Fishbed with USAF paint scheme manoeuvring over the Mojave Desert.
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all migs from egypt?
 
all migs from egypt?
They got them from all over mate, main supply was via Israel and captured airframes but the US also bought them via South Africa, Vietnam and even China
 
They got them from all over mate, main supply was via Israel and captured airframes but the US also bought them via South Africa, Vietnam and even China
mig-21 not problem,but mig-23.israel captued mig-23 syrian af when landing in small israel agriculture airport in 90's era,south africa never mig-23 airframe had ruin mig-23,vietnam received mig-23 in lately 80's era,china never serviced mig-23 but egypt send mig-23 to china for research and study make spare to egypt.
vietnam in 90 era is allied of soviet(before soviet collapse) not sale mig to us!
or in 90 era soviet invited western broker deal sale mig 29 to western country,they maybe sale mig-23 and/or spare m-21/23 to us!
 
West Germany. 25 January 1985. A U.S. soldier from Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery, sets up a collimator to sight in an M109A2 155 mm self-propelled howitzer during Exercise Reforger '85.

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Boeing B-17 Bomber with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron being used as a Hurricane Reconnaissance aircraft in September 1947
The B-17 pictured is a Douglas / Long Beach built B-17G, records show that it was recycled/scrapped in October 1948
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West Germany. 7 May 1971. Maschinenbau Kiel AG (MaK) hands over the first Marder IFV to the Bundeswehr.

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