Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[davparlr]

Wow! My heart skipped a beat seeing all those C-141s (definitely "A"s). I recognized number 6077 as a plane I once flew! Great aircraft. Sometimes difficult to launch from home base, lots of systems, but once weight was off the wheels it would take you all over the world and back with not a whisper of problems. Those TF33 engines were great. The C-141A was over powered (its had as much thrust on three engines as the KC-135, with water, on four, and grossed out at the same weight). We almost always maxed space before we maxed weight, which led to the "B", increased load by 30%. Broke my heart seeing them being cut up. Moving up from the T-38 flight planning, which we counted fuel by the pint to "weather is marginal at landing? Put on another 20k pounds of fuel, we'll find somewhere to land."

 

[Admiral Beez]

RCN Banshee and Sea Fury.

 

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[Admiral Beez]

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A good fleet exercise. HMCS Bonaventure launches RCN strike on RCAF Station Goose Bay. Consisting of six bomb-armed Banshees, plus two on escort armed with Sidewinders. All eight Banshees have 4 × 20 mm cannon.

Meeting them, six radar-vectored CF-100 Mk 5 armed with eight .5-inch mgs plus two wingtip pods of 2.75 in "Mighty Mouse" fin-folding aerial rockets, shown below.

I expect the RCAF pilots would prefer Canadair Sabres.

 

[syscom3]

An air to air left side view of an F-16XL aircraft, 18 August 1982. The aircraft is armed with two wing tip mounted AIM-9 Sidewinder and four fuselage mounted AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, along with 12 500-pound bombs.

 

[GTX]

Back to the Canadian theme:

More info and photos here:

Canadair CP-107 Argus Royal Canadian Navy Air Force Patrol

cp-107 argus canadair maritime patrol aircraft royal canadian navy air force rcaf

www.seaforces.org

 

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[GTX]

The way things are going with Russian and China, we may need a whole new cold War thread for modern platforms...

 

[syscom3]

A front view of an U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II aircraft taxiing out during Exercise Opportune Journey 4, on 21 August 1982. The aircraft, from the 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing, is armed with a 500-lb. Mark 82 laser guided bomb on the left wing.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[syscom3]

Three U.S. Air Force F-4E Phantom II aircraft from the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, in flight during Reforger-Coronet Musket, 22 August 1982.

 

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A left side view of a U.S. Air Force A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft on the runway at sunset during the Crested Cap I phase of
Reforger '82, Leck Air Base, Federal Republic of Germany, 22 August 1982.

 

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[syscom3]

Grumman S-2 Tracker of VAW-11 Det. L aboard U.S. Navy attack aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CVA-19) on 23 August 1962.

 

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An air-to-air left side view of a U.S. Navy Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter,
Virginia, August 25, 1982.

 

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[GTX]

Sweden wasn't technically part of the Cold War but let's not let that get in the way...

 

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