Cold War Era Military Artwork

[Lazarou]

Cold War era military artwork from the Military Art Collection of the United States Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA). Because there are so many of them and because the military art thread seems to be more concentrated on selfmade art I decided to start a new thread.

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Aircraft


Tu-160 Blackjack loading AS-16 missiles


Tu-160 Blackjack


Blackjack bomber with escorts


Tu-160 firing AS-15 missile


Yak-25RM Mandrake spy plane (the Soviet counterpart of the American U-2)


Soviet wing-in-ground effect aircraft (ekranoplans)


Midas tanker refueling Bear bomber


Mi-24 Hind gunship delivering chemical spray


A-50 Mainstay AWACS with escorts


Ka-50 Hokum and Mi-28 Havoc


MiG-29 Fulcrum taking off from carrier


Il-76 Candid dropping troops and equipment


Missile attack on US F-16s


Mi-28 in Afghanistan


Mi-14 Haze


MiG-29 Fulcrum escorting Tu-22M Backfire


Su-27 Flankers in formation


Chinese A-5 Fantan


North Korean MiG-21 Fishbed

Artillery and Ballistic Missiles


Scud-B


"280mm MLRS" (300mm 9K58 Smerch apparently)


Chinese M-9


Soviet 203mm 2S7 self-propelled gun


Soviet 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns supporting river crossing


Soviet artillery urban training camp


BM-27 MLRS (220mm 9P140 Uragan)


Rail-mobile SS-24 ICBM launchers


SS-18 Mod.5 ICBM


SS-20s in firing positions


SS-25s ICBM firing

Air Defence


SA-5 SAM in Libya


SA-7 Strela-2 (Polish version)


Soviet ground-based laser


Soviet mobile lasers defending an airfield


Pushinko ABM site


SA-12 Giant


2S6M Tunguska self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) and two ZSU-23-4 Shilkas

Ships and Submarines


Delta SSBN firing SS-N-18 ICBM


Yak-141 Freestyle on a Tbilisi class carrier


Kresta II guided missile cruiser


Soviet ballistic missile submarine base


Delta


Delta II


Soviet ships in Cam Ranh Bay


Tbilisi class carrier


Typhoon replenishing in the arctic


Yankee submarine firing cruise missiles

Space


Mir & Soyuz


Soviet anti-satellite system


SOviet Cosmos 389 ELINT (electronic intelligence) satellite


Soviet Mars lander


Soviet RORSAT satellite


Soviet shuttle launch


Soviet space laser


Soviet space particle beam


Soviet space shuttle on the launch pad


Mir & space shuttle

Soviet space-based strategic defences


Vostok space rocket

Miscellanous


British liaison mission near East Germany


Underground facility in Libya


Soviet mobile laser in Afghanistan


Soviet tanks crossing river

[finnjävel]

Sweet photos! Some are really good artwork. I'd like to see others than soviet ones as well.

[-=P=-]

Great find, I love those 80's artworks.

[Gladiatore]

I remember having some of these in some numbers of an Italian decence magazine called RID, from the mid 80's, in articles about development of Soviet forces. Gorbachev had just come to power or was about to. So much water under the bridges since.

Boy I miss the Cold War

[kangur]

hmmm... mobile laser - was this for real?

[Jurpula]

Nice find. Some of them look like those cards that came with chewing gum packs

[Adax]

Awsome!!! I'd like to have that kind album
This one is just great:

[-Max-]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[bbc100]

The good old days of the Soviet Union....
Imagine if all these weaponry were created and entered service today
The Red Army would be a large and fearsome force!

[socom6]

LOL I remembered some of those from school. Our school library believe it or not got the DIA Soviet military threat handbook of 1986 and those pics scared the living daylights out of me and some of my friends because we never knew the Soviets had such sophisticated weaponry and you couldnt tell us schoolboys then that they were not going to use them.

Thanks for the flashback with those pics, I miss those days too it was a time of wonderment and discovery.

[Andrew116]

OMG I havn't seen some of these pics in years! Thanks for posting them

lol the russian mobile laser stuff made me laugh

[LEGEND]

The good old days of the Soviet Union....
Imagine if all these weaponry were created and entered service today
The Red Army would be a large and fearsome force!

This might surprise you, but besides the laser stuff everything esle was created and is real.

[bbc100]

This might surprise you, but besides the laser stuff everything esle was created and is real.

At least the space shuttle and space station wasn't created

[Norsu]

At least the space shuttle and space station wasn't created

Erm yes they were.

MIR space station


Buran space shuttle

[3rdMillhouse]

Hey, what he fvck? Havoks in Afghanistan?