Photos The Cold War
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An anti-Communist civilian fighter armed with a Romanian PM md. 65 chases the supposedly Securitate secret police agents loyal to the communist power during street-fighting. Christmas In Romania 1989
What's the context? I can't find any Soviet ship visits in 81 (didn't expect any though). They'd be more likely to be Naval Infantry wouldn't they?
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Heh that explains at least one small problem with that chart. The Tornado's Foxhunter wasn't working properly until after the end of the cold war. At the time that was made, the Foxhunter wasn't installed in the Tornado ADV. Instead they used some cement as ballast.
Yup and one of the reasons the Phantoms were kept around a bit longer IIRC.
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This thing is missing alot of aircraft on the eastern block side as well as their missiles.......
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Could be movie actors from Moscow, Odessa or even Hollywood or just tourists
BTW, the Lone Star Cafe tshort could've been purchased in early 1990s or even now but now it cost about 100 backs.
I believe the last ones were retired in 1990. Anyway a nice interceptor. Hope to see one in 2022!
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C-130A in the gunsight of a MiG-17 moments before shootdown over Armenian SSR, 1958
On September 2, 1958, a Lockheed C-130A-II-LM (s/n 56-0528), from the 7406th Support Squadron, departed Incirlik Airbase in Turkey on a reconnaissance mission along the Turkish-Armenian border. It was to fly a course parallel to the Soviet frontier, but not approach the border closer than 100 miles (160 km). The crew reported passing over Trabzon in Turkey at 25,500 feet (7,800 m) and then acknowledged a weather report from Trabzon, but that was the last communication received from the flight. It was later intercepted and shot down by four Soviet MiG-17s 34 mi (55 km; 30 nmi) north-west of Yerevan. The six flight crew were confirmed dead when their remains were repatriated to the United States, but the 11 intelligence-gathering personnel on board have never been acknowledged by Soviet / Russian authorities. After the fall of the Soviet Union a US excavation team found hundreds of skeletal fragments; two remains were identified. A group burial of the 17 crew remains was held at Arlington National Cemetery.
The exact cause of why the aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace is unknown, but according to the Aviation Safety Network, the crew may have confused a radio beacon in the USSR with similar frequencies to the Turkish beacons they were briefed to use, or it may have been a deliberate maneuver to obtain better data
On September 2, 1958, a Lockheed C-130A-II-LM (s/n 56-0528), from the 7406th Support Squadron, departed Incirlik Airbase in Turkey on a reconnaissance mission along the Turkish-Armenian border. It was to fly a course parallel to the Soviet frontier, but not approach the border closer than 100 miles (160 km). The crew reported passing over Trabzon in Turkey at 25,500 feet (7,800 m) and then acknowledged a weather report from Trabzon, but that was the last communication received from the flight. It was later intercepted and shot down by four Soviet MiG-17s 34 mi (55 km; 30 nmi) north-west of Yerevan. The six flight crew were confirmed dead when their remains were repatriated to the United States, but the 11 intelligence-gathering personnel on board have never been acknowledged by Soviet / Russian authorities. After the fall of the Soviet Union a US excavation team found hundreds of skeletal fragments; two remains were identified. A group burial of the 17 crew remains was held at Arlington National Cemetery.
The exact cause of why the aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace is unknown, but according to the Aviation Safety Network, the crew may have confused a radio beacon in the USSR with similar frequencies to the Turkish beacons they were briefed to use, or it may have been a deliberate maneuver to obtain better data
The Soviets tried to lure an RAF Phantom across the DDR border one time using spoofing and jamming so it wouldn't surprise me if they'd done it earlier too. That said, I'd have imagined they'd have tried to force it down rather than shoot it down so assume probably a tragic nav error.
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I found this photo in the thread where spetsnaz uniforms and equipment are discussed with such explanation.
it соuld be Vympel, but this is not certain
I doubt that the United States would have allowed any Soviet warship into its territorial waters.Оtherwise, it’s hard for me to imagine how Naval Infantry could have got there
Could be movie actors from Moscow, Odessa or even Hollywood or just tourists
considering how "authentically "Hollywood portrayed soviet military uniforms ,I doubt that is true
I can't see why any kind of SF would wear a uniform if they're not on a flagged vessel. The whole thing smells. I can find reference to a USN ship visit in 89 to Sevastopol and a Soviet visit to San Diego in 90 but nothing to New York so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss visits.
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Two soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army during a training exercise, 1980s
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