Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (69 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

F8F-1 Bearcat assigned to VF-72 just before launching from USS Leyte (CV 32) while an HO3S plane guard helicopter hovers off the port side during Operation Frigid in the North Atlantic 1948 FACB

 

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Grumman E-2C Hawkeye 航空自衛隊 601 Hikotai AIRH

 

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Hawker Sea Fury FB11 811 Sqn Kuala Lumpur 1954 AIRH

 

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Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2 801 Sqn AIRH

 

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A brace of F-40's carrying GBU-8 HOBOS munitions THOMS

 

[SaparotRob]

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My favorite could've been. General Yeager flew it. It would've neat to get Winkle Brown's opinion of it. Much handwavium required, I suppose.

 

[Viking1066]

VRC-40 C-2A(R) after SLEP on USS Carl Vinson, July 2009 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

HMS Hermes Flight Deck 1967-69; Buccaneer XT279 (322) getting ready to Launch after the Gannet gets airborne FACB

 

[cammerjeff]

New one to my eyes Antonov An-71. Prototype

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[Viking1066]

A line-up of Tupolev Tu-95MS aircraft during sunset at Engels Air Force Base, Russia WIKI

 

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Beriev Be-12 Chayka '25 yellow' codename 'Chayka' early ASW variant 2012 FLIK

 

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MiG-31, MiG-27, MiG-25R,MiG-23, MiG-21S, MiG-19PM, MiG-17, MiG15UTI and MiG-9. background Tu-95, IL-76, Mil-26 and a Su-17 at Monino 2012 FLIK

 

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Myasischev 3MD variant was a cruise missile carrying aircraft and was given the NATO codename 'Bison-C' 2012 FLIK

 

[Viking1066]

Douglas A-4C Skyhawk VA-106 1969 AIRH

 

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Douglas A-4K Skyhawk 75 Sqn 1980 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

LTV A-7D Corsair II 162 TFS/Ohio ANG 1981 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

LTV A-7B Corsair II '154409' VA-204/CVWR-20 New Orleans NAS 1983 AIRH

 

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Douglas A-4SU Skyhawk "942" 150 Sq Singapore AF AIRH

 

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Douglas A-4K Skyhawk aircraft of No. 75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, are serviced on the flight line during Exercise COPE THUNDER '84-7 on 10 Sep 1984 at Clark Air Base WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

LTV A-7D Corsair II 146 TFS Fairford AIRH