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07-05-2006, 09:05 AM
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Cold War Era Military Artwork
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.
--- High-resolution versions (wallpaper size or bigger) can be found here. --- 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 |
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07-05-2006, 09:33 AM
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Sweet photos! Some are really good artwork. I'd like to see others than soviet ones as well.
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07-05-2006, 09:36 AM
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Great find, I love those 80's artworks.
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07-05-2006, 09:44 AM
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What fond memories
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 |
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07-05-2006, 09:53 AM
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hmmm... mobile laser - was this for real?
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07-05-2006, 09:53 AM
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Nice find. Some of them look like those cards that came with chewing gum packs
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07-05-2006, 09:54 AM
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Awsome!!! I'd like to have that kind album
This one is just great:
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07-05-2006, 09:55 AM
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
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07-05-2006, 09:56 AM
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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! |
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07-05-2006, 10:53 AM
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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. |
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07-05-2006, 11:35 AM
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OMG I havn't seen some of these pics in years! Thanks for posting them
lol the russian mobile laser stuff made me laugh 
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07-05-2006, 11:50 AM
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07-05-2006, 12:02 PM
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MIR space station  Buran space shuttle 
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07-05-2006, 12:04 PM
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Hey, what he fvck? Havoks in Afghanistan?
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