Mid-80's Cold War a e s t h e t i c thread. Post both filthy

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Yugos and Chinks included too.

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Berlin Brigade camouflage

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The Pershing II missile.

Scary shit.

>>34593596
When is this from? I thought the Type-99 was a relatively modern tank? Or is it an older vehicle?

>>34593852
That thing triggered the commies so bad it's scary.
What made it such a threat compared to the other MRBMs?

>>34595567

Seriously low time to impact in the nuclear weapons game

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>>34598354

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anyone ever workout what caused this?
hull still looks good but it got pushed back into that bollard and broke it's track

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>>34596772
I raise you a tornado

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>>34598607
I don't care what anyone says. The Torando is easily the best looking aircraft ever made.

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>>34598650
hear hear

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W O O D L A N D

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>>34598687
More mid-80's /k/omando Marriott battle truck

>>34598621
Damn, that 'tache and chest hair made me grow hair on my eyeballs

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[It Aint Me (Salsa Mix) Intensifies]

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Last, but not least in the woodland series

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Anyone know what book these are from?

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>>34598812

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>>34598825

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>>34598861

>>34598354
>War never changes... the LT is always lost

>>34598725
motherfuckers need to fix those chin straps

>>34598590
Is that Troubles?

>>34595567
Very low warning time, launchers had to be located near conventional targets, and it gave the US a numerical advantage it could range the USSR while the Soviets needed treaty limited and more expensive ICBMs to hit the US.

>>34599657
Nigga, this is a blue board. No porn allowed.

>>34595677

>M60s

Oh man, NATO would be been so badly BTFO if they were bum rushed in the 70s or 80s.

>>34599734
>tfw she has a dick
>mfw i have no face

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>>34599760

>>34593366
Commie faggot

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>SOKOL-ONE TO ALL UNITS
>ROMANOV, YOU ARE NOW READING THIS IN MY VOICE

>>34598354
why can't M60A3s in Wargame:RD look like that

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I would seriously suggest watching this, some cold war aesthesics, but a good series about all the bricks being shat from both sides of the wall.

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Look closely.

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Dumping

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>>34602362

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>>34602372

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>>34602394

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>>34602420

>>34593934
it is probably just a shitty camera. You gotta remember that China in the late 90's and early 00's was basically what the late 1970's-1980's was for the western world

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>>34602427

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>>34602436

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>>34602441

>>34602427
I wonder how many militaries still have tanks with fuck hueg optics like that, .50cal or 20mm would fuck up that units combat effectiveness

>>34602441
Is dat sum Dragon 2? Wonder if contemporary Iranian versions have been used in the Syrian/Iraqi conflicts against ISIL

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>>34602449

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>>34602450
It's an infrared lamp not an optic, so while it would diminish night time fighting capabilities it wouldn't render them inoperable

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>>34602454
It's an FGM-77/M47 Dragon which saw some good use in Grenada

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>>34602470

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Real life nightmare forvthe Czechs.

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>>34602474

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>>34602479

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>>34602475
>yfw jack off for the first time to a VHS of this movie

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>>34602485

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>>34602492

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>>34602499

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>>34602503
god i really wanna fuck that thing in the side

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>>34602507

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>>34602509
It's a beautiful piece of equipment for sure
>>34602507

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>>34602515

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>>34602524

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>>34602527

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>>34598687
>>34598697
>the attempt at camouflage on the side
>held together with a construction cone
>oh my fuck

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>>34602553

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>>34602620
Where'd you get these pics? Takes me a while with Cold War stuff.

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>>34602624

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>>34602626
Tbh I don't have any particular place. Cold War era is my fetish so anywhere I find a pic I immediately download it.

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>>34602644

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>>34602644
Same here, though a couple interesting reverse searches have been helpful.

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>>34602651

>>34593604

Not 80s

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>>34602671
Well damn, looks like thats all my 80s pics. Rest are 60s/70s so back to lurking I go

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>>34602678
I'll see if I can fill in a bit, however I forgot we were limited to the 80's in this thread so that cuts down a bit of what I have.

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>>34602693

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Time for some ROK

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Saw this in a book today

>>34602232
Gave me a chuckle.

>>34593614
love it' dont know why

>>34593596
Pretty sure that's a Type 96 indicating an early 00's photo. However China's uniforms and equipment does fit a end-Cold War aesthetic even during that time.

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>>34602775

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>>34593366
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WurYM9PL4mo&list=PLF58AE693780FA852&index=1

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>>34598607
>>34598669

Tornado Gr4A armed Storm Shadows... cold war. KYS.

>>34598612

Harrier Gr5 at least became operational a whole month before 80's ended.

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Last one for right now.

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So assuming that the cold war went hot in the mid-80s, and did not escalate to a MAD scenario, who stood the best chance of winning?

To me it seems like The soviet union would completely bust through in the beginning stages but would be fucked the longer the war dragged on. Is this a correct assumption?

>>34599657
lewd

>>34603100
>would be fucked the longer the war dragged on
Why tho?

>>34603309
USSRs economy was flat on its ass by the 80s, they still looked threatening at the time but with hindsight they would have been flattened, especially with the US present.

>>34603309
US shifting into a War Economy as well as moving most of its forces into Europe not to mention the fact that China would most likely enter the war on the side of the united states so it would be the whole world against the warsaw pact. Add into that the internal division of the USSR and they pretty much have to pray for a quick treaty for an end to the war.

I'm the OG poster though so this is a lot of assumptions

>>34603100
Basically yes, USSR would have pulled a hitler, broke through everywhere at the start then had it fall apart very quickly

The Soviet economy was on its knees by the 80's and society was basically being held together with blue tape and pure insanity, the system would have collapsed completely if it had to deal with the pressure of fighting the largest war in history

>>34603378
Peace time economy is different than war economy.

It's best speculating USSR cold war gone hot economy would be like WW2, but with steroids.

>>34603430
Subsidised by the United States of America?

>>34603510
>Subsidised by the United States of America?


Are you talking about Lend Lease?

If so, then I fear you are incorrect. Lend Lease was a great help, indeed. But saying it's the factor that made SU bolster its production is morbidly foolishly exaggerated. (or mere memery).

In fact, US lend lease with Brtian worth much more than what was send to the East.

>>34603100
>>34603402
Red Army by Ralph Peters is a pretty interesting take on the subject. Well written imo too.

>>34595567
The fact Nato didn't have a MRBM with 30m accuracy and a 2000km range before introducing it.

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>>34598481

Probably tried to smash the barrier and the track broke.

Hitting the barrier broke away a large chunk of track cover from the hull.

For some reason, the turret is rotated back. Could be to prevent the barrel from hitting the barrier.

What broke the first barrier remains a mystery.

>>34602441
>Jeeze peterson how come your CO lets you have TWO LAWs?

>>34603552
>US lend lease with Brtian worth much more than what was send to the East.
But that's incorrect

>>34598511
oh nikita...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-Q-Acv4qs

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>>34603667
Would you mind posting statistics, though?

>inb4 Wikipedia

Perhaps you would change your mind if the actaul reference would be used: Wolfgang Schumann (et al.): Deutschland im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982, Bd. 3, S. 468.(

>>34602489
ahhhh the shower scene...

>>34603686
>trusting wessie opinion at the peak of cold war

>>34603430
Huge steroids.
In ww2 soviets lost some of their richest territories to Germans. Cause of warpact meatshield they would have kept their integrity.

>>34603700
>still not providing evidence

welp, good day to you

>>34603718
I'm not the guy you were arguing with.

>>34603745
Oh, sorry.

My mistake.

>>34598845
>Staying put while a soviet tank division passes you
Fuck that!

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>>34602348
I don't need to look closely to see something that isn't the Trilogy.

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faster dima, or we will miss land battle!

>>34598607
>>34598650
Got to be at a close range flyby of one. Was amazing. Only had my phone, I left my field recording gear at home like an idiot.

You don't hear them, you feel them all around you. It's like the typhoon flyby I was at. It's like thunder coming from all around or the trumpets of jericho.

It must be horrendous to be attacked by one

>>34602330
It was good. There should be another series soon

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>>34593617
That's a chieftain right?

>>34603717
>Cause of warpact meatshield they would have kept their integrity.

I pretty sure that lot of warpac nations were essentially on brink of open rebellion against Soviets in 80's. In case war with NATO, puppet states would have imploded on the moment war starts to civil war if no to outright war against Soviets. Soviet union didn't have allies, it had slaves.

>>34602450
That's an IR searchight which is used in conjuction with the gunner's night vision sight

>>34603003
Relax, autist

>>34603686
Britain did lend lease to USSR too, 80% of the tanks used in the battle of moscow were British matildas and valentines, not forgetting hundreds of hurricanes and even a battleship

>>34593590
*Lightning incense and praying intensifies*