Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (19 Viewers)

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Beech T-34A Mentor 201 Kokutai AIRH

 

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Blackburn Buccaneer from HMS launching AERF

 

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F-15J Eagles of 202nd Tactical Fighter Squadron take off during a joint USA/Japan exercise 1985 WIKI

 

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US Navy F-14A from Fighter Squadron 2 (VF-2) escorts a US Navy P-3C during exercises to defend the USS Ranger carrier battle group 1989 AIRF

 

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F-15A of the Florida Air National Guard flying over Florida with AIM-9X and AIM-120 WIKI

 

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Beech T-34C Turbo Mentors Davis-Monthan AFB AIRH

 

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F-16AM Fighting Falcon air-to-air refuelling mission with a USAF KC-135 AIRH

 

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52-0514 was accompanied by a U-2 and a C-135 on the mission to New Zealand that lasted several months AIRH
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Could that be to cover the French nuclear tests

 

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Could that be to cover the French nuclear tests

KC-135s (often in C-135N configuration) were regularly identified monitoring the nuclear tests at Mururoa and Fangafauta. One, SN 12674 had to perform an emergency landing at Tahiti on july 3, 1966. The crewmen were equipped with dosimeters...

On 13 June 1971 a KC-135 TRIA (Telemetry Range Instrumentation Aircraft) SN 61-0331 from the 4950 th Test Wing disappeared with 12 crewmen and 12 civilian technicians on its return leg to Hawaii after monitoring the Encelade test at Mururoa.

 

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