Photos The Cold War

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Talibanhunter]

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SS with captured guns !!

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

SS with captured guns !!

It's irony?

 

[BravoZulu]

111 Squadron RAF. English Electric Lightning F Mk.1A

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Yugoslav People's Army soldiers talk to French sailors, 1968

 

[SamWell]

Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. J and T-34-85 in the Syrian army, early 60s

Spanish Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. Н in 60s

 

[BravoZulu]

RAF
Handley Page Victor bomber crew on quick reaction alert (QRA) scramble their aircraft for a mock nuclear strike mission.

 

[BravoZulu]

RAF Crew and their Avro Vulcan at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, 1959.

 

[BravoZulu]

Vulcan bombers of Britain’s Cold War V-Force under guard by an RAF sentry and his German Shepherd - circa 1960

 

[uktabber]

Lovely photos of the venerable and beloved Victor and Vulcan's!!! LOVE THEM!!!

 

[NebrHogger]

I found these in a photoset relating to people viewing atomic bomb tests in the early to mid 1950s at a Nevada test site. Some military people were moved to within 9km of 'ground zero'! I'm not sure how many tests there were, but it appears there were several.

Bus schedule to the viewing area

Visible from downtown Las Vegas, NV.

Only 9km away.

Bleachers were erected for this test viewing

Civilian viewing area. No date was given, but I see a 1958 Chevy.

"Catch the bus here"

If you were too cheap to pay the $3, you could still see the cloud from Las Vegas.

 

[BravoZulu]

31 August 1978. A Dutch Marine takes aim with his 84mm Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle. The Dutch Marines are participating in the NATO exercise Northern Wedding

 

[NebrHogger]

Cuban anti aircraft unit during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

I found these in a photoset relating to people viewing atomic bomb tests in the early to mid 1950s at a Nevada test site. Some military people were moved to within 9km of 'ground zero'! I'm not sure how many tests there were, but it appears there were several.

Bus schedule to the viewing area
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Visible from downtown Las Vegas, NV.
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Only 9km away.
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Bleachers were erected for this test viewing
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Civilian viewing area. No date was given, but I see a 1958 Chevy.
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"Catch the bus here"
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If you were too cheap to pay the $3, you could still see the cloud from Las Vegas.
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American exercises with atomic weapons are a very sore subject for our liberals. In the USSR in 1954, similar exercises were conducted at the Totsk training ground. Our anti-communists talk about the "atrocities" that took place there. At the same time, attaching... photos from American exercises! Yes. In the USSR and even Maoist China, soldiers were given respiratory and skin protection, and American soldiers had to run in this form. As far as I know, the United States holds the record for the number of atomic tests involving the army.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Chinese film. Unfortunately, the Soviet film about the 1954 exercises has only been partially published. The Chinese command was present at the Soviet exercises, and I can assume that in the USSR safety was even stricter.
If any of you are on the VK social network, I can share films about the activities of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. There you can see a high level of safety equipment among the personnel.

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[BravoZulu]

UN marked Swedish J29 “flying barrels” seen from a Curtiss C-46, Congo 1962

 

[Hiryu2.0]

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M41 2177 and M41 2103 with main battle tank train on military support bridge across River Tisza between Tiszaug and Lakitelek in 1986 (Tranzit '86 military exercise)

 

[SamWell]

 

[Fish&Chips]

Visible from downtown Las Vegas, NV.

Those were the days of "duck and cover".