Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (3 Viewers)

[SaparotRob]

Looks better too.

 

[GreenKnight121]

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U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4N Phantom II from Fighter Squadron VF-51 Screaming Eagles intercepts a Soviet-built Libyan Tupolev Tu-22 "Blinder" over the Mediterranean Sea, circa in April 1977. The Tu-22 bomber was being delivered to Libya. VF-51 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 4 October 1976 to 21 April 1977.

 

[FrL]

Nice. But please source the pics.

Canadian Warplanes 6: Jets, McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee

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[Frog]

It's a Libyan Arab Tupolev Tu-22 ( The Libyan Arab Republic Air Force 1969-77 ). The pic was taken in April 1977 before the Federation of Arab Republics was disbanded in the same year. Hence the arab style national markings.

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the source: the net.

Maybe was it the one shot down by the French with a Hawk missile in the vicinity of N'Djamena on september 7, 1987.

 

[FrL]

Canadian Navy F2H-3 (700, 126381) on HMCS Bonaventure (1957) :

Source : www.silverhawkauthor.com/

 

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[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[FrL]

Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.50 & Sikorsky S-55 of the Netherland Navy, at Curacao (1960)

Source : Smaldeel 5 te NNG (Nederlands Nieuw Guinea) in 1960 | Verhalen van vroege(r)

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy Anti-Submarine Helicopter Squadron 5 (HS-5) SH-3H Sea King helicopter, Mediterranean Sea, 25 September 1983.

 

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[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[FrL]

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I love the Scimitar !

 

[syscom3]

A BQM-34A target drone noses over as it starts for the water, out of control, following engagement by a laser beam from
the Air Force Airborne Laser Laboratory, at the Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu (California), 26 September 1983.
There is damage to the right rear quarter of the drone.

 

[syscom3]

F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, 26 September 1983.

 

[GTX]

 

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[GTX]

 

[BiffF15]

A BQM-34A target drone noses over as it starts for the water, out of control, following engagement by a laser beam from
the Air Force Airborne Laser Laboratory, at the Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu (California), 26 September 1983.
There is damage to the right rear quarter of the drone.

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I've shot AIM-7s at a few of those. Has a T-37 engine.