Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[syscom3]

U.S. Air Force Convair PQM-102B Delta Dagger, 475th TFIS, Tyndall AFB, Florida, 16 October 1982.

 

[nuuumannn]

On this day 60 years ago, Oct 14 1962. USAF recon aircraft locate Soviet IRBM's in Cuba. The missiles of October begins.

I can hear Adlai Stevenson as the world sees these pictures for the first time in the UN; "Don't wait for the translation!"

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[syscom3]

A front view of a U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II aircraft on the flight line at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida during Combined Effects Munitions testing, 20 October 1982. Four CBU-87B cluster bombs are mounted on the wing pylons of the F-4.

 

[syscom3]

Three U.S. Navy Ling-Temco-Vought A-7E Corsair II attack aircraft of Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in the
Arabian Gulf on 24 October 1982. The A-7E nearer to the camera belonged to attack squadron VA-22 "Fighting Redcocks." It is overall light grey, which was used, when the
U.S. Navy transitioned from the high-visibility paint scheme used between 1956 and 1981 to low-visibility schemes. It also carries a Texas Instruments AN/AAR-45 FLIR pod.
The other two A-7Es were from VA-94 "Shrikes" and are already painted in (then) new low-visibility scheme. The Enterprise was on a deployment to the Western Pacific an
the Indian Ocean from 1 September 1982 to 28 April 1983.

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

Major Rudolph Anderson's U-2, shot down in Cuba, October 27, 1962, as the world teeters on the brink.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Never saw that before.

 

[herman1rg]

Major Rudolph Anderson's U-2, shot down in Cuba, October 27, 1962, as the world teeters on the brink.

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Rudolf Anderson - Wikipedia

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[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[syscom3]

A Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker refueling the KC-135R prototype (61-0293), 2 November 1982.

 

[syscom3]

The pilot of a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft prepares for takeoff during the field training exercise QUICK THRUST, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 8 November 1982.

 

[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[SaparotRob]

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Cool. Literally.

 

[SaparotRob]

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It's like it has the measles.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[nuuumannn]

Never saw that before.

Bizarrely enough, there are bits of Anderson's U-2 in the Caen War Memorial in Normandy, France, on loan from a museum in Cuba.

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[Frog]

Bizarrely enough, there are bits of Anderson's U-2 in the Caen War Memorial in Normandy, France, on loan from a museum in Cuba.

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There is some kind of logic as it is part of the exposition dedicated to the Cold War at the Memorial.