Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (12 Viewers)

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[Escuadrilla Azul]

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What is that?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

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What is that?

Jindivik (Hunted one) Mk.2s

PTA - JINDIVIK - Fleet Air Arm Association of Australia

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[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[GreenKnight121]

Arguably a child of the cold war:

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Nothing "arguable" about it at all... on 3 December 1989, Gorbachev and Bush declared the Cold War* over at the Malta Summit... first flight of the Saab Gripen: December 9, 1988.

* However, many historians argue that the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991 was the end of the Cold War.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from the 511th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, taxis toward the flight line at Weisbaden Air Base, West Germany, after completing a mission on 14 September 1983 during REFORGER/AUTUMN FORGE '83.

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Awesome pic.

I've flown into Wiesbaden many, many times. For some reason I never remember the runway being long enough for fixed wing, but then I had to go back and look at some old pics, and it in fact was.

 

[syscom3]

Awesome pic.

I've flown into Wiesbaden many, many times. For some reason I never remember the runway being long enough for fixed wing, but then I had to go back and look at some old pics, and it in fact was.

I bet you have some cold war stories.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I bet you have some cold war stories.

I did not serve in the cold war. I lived in Germany during the final decade of it, though, as a military dependent.

 

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Jindivik (Hunted one) Mk.2s

PTA - JINDIVIK - Fleet Air Arm Association of Australia

www.faaaa.asn.au

Yep. although a target drone, I have often wondered if the Jindivik could have been the basis for a Recon drone.

 

[syscom3]

Lockheed TR-1B, a high-altitude special-purpose reconnaissance and research aircraft, 18 September 1983.
The TR-1B has the same basic airframe as the Lockheed U-2R aircraft but with significant modifications to some of its
equipment.

 

[Donivanp]

And has since been re desegregation to U-2R and Bono is the CC with The Edge as ACC

 

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It didn't get to fly but may have been iconic if it had:

 

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Sisters:

 

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[syscom3]

An air-to-air left side view of an F-4 Phantom II, foreground, and a Norwegian F-5 Tiger II aircraft in flight during REFORGER
(CORNET RAWHIDE), 19 September 1983.

 

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B-52 bomber aircraft as it flies over the Pyramids during exercise BRIGHT STAR '83, Egypt, 19 September 1983.

 

[Frog]

An air-to-air left side view of an F-4 Phantom II, foreground, and a Norwegian F-5 Tiger II aircraft in flight during REFORGER
(CORNET RAWHIDE), 19 September 1983.

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F-5 or F-5A Freedom Fighter. Norway did not acquire the Tiger II.

 

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