I'm working on a weird war setting idea for 90's/gulf

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>>48113159
will dump odd militech to get started. The idea is that this setting is coming out of an extended and exaggerated, pulpy version of the cold war, to the tone of old bond movies and strangelove, with an expanded arms and space race, and a race to implement internet currently building.

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>>48113301
also improved and better miniaturized nuclear tech, though not to the degree of fallout, more to the tune of big nuclear planes and possibly trains or (ill concieved) supertanks

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>>48113373

>>48113301
Goddamn, but Ekranoplans are just fantastic.

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Rocket tanks.

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I'm not sure if I'd include regular consumer space travel, but I love this picture

>>48113373
The scary thing about the PLUTO is that it existed, and was in active development.
Nuclear-ramjet fueld ultra-cruise missile basically.

...seriously, if you want to get ideas for arms race based shenanigans, jsut go voer the shit that had to be scrapped bcause of monetary reasons.

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Nuclear planes.

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Bartini Beriev VVA-14

Russian ground effect vehicle.

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Nuclear reactors rolling around on tracks.

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Launching planes without a strip.

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the americans fuck up and create a nuclear fairy

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Pancake missile tank.

>>48113628

Where is this?

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>>48113642
Kubinka tank museum.

And this is the Shagohod.

>>48113159

OP, if you have not yet read it, check out A Colder War by Charles Stross.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

Also, The Jennifer Morgue (also by Stross) might have some good ideas for you (think James Bond meets Call of Cthulhu)

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Object 279, heavy tank with increased nuclear protection.

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So I am certain I don't know enough military history and minutia to get the feel of encounters and events right, I encourage armchair generals and /k/ to share their thoughts

>>48113711

Did you have a mission in mind?

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>Nothing here but us trees

"Stilet" laser tank, for blinding optical systems and pilots.

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Yak 141 VTOL. Had a lot of problems, killed a lot of pilots.

>>48113748
PRISM TANK!

>>48113662
This is shnekohod. "Shagogod" is a walker.

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American T-28 superheavy tank.

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>>48113748
His brother, "Szhatie"

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>>48113819
Wooops. You are right.

Mi-26 flying barn. One of these crashed in a minefield in Chechnya. 127 fatalities.

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>>48113736
honestly I'm trying to figure out where things stand militarily at the turn of the millennium in the situation a where the soviets dragged out and kept up due to better decisions and surviving heavy reforms and modernization, to continue as the rival for the US. What would happen if the commies had somehow pulled themselves together to keep competitive, with a new era of detente and enough compromise to survive. Essentially, what would be going on if there was still a competing superpower.

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The Twister.

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"Caspian beast", Soviet ekranoplan.

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"Gnome" assault pistol.

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Juliett-class submarine with it's missile tubes and satellite antenna unholstered.

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>>48113880
Probably more proxy wars. A rebellion or two inside the Eastern Bloc, promptly crushed by joint Warsaw Pact action.
If you are interested in what large scale cold warfare would look like, I had a documentary about the biggest WP pact exercise around here somewhere.

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This thing launches plane bombs from the ground.

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This is how soviet UAVs would look like.

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Planes launching planes.

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Daka daka.

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Stridsvagn 2000, the never realized swedish supertank. Bonus points if it's the Act of Aggression version with thermoptical camouflage.

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>>48114137
Aren't discs about as aerodynamic as a brick without rotation?

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Duck tales, wooho.

>>48114238
Ayys.

>>48114283
i think you mean tailspin

>>48114309
I think you mean i mean Talespin. Yes. But i forgot the theme song.

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Top secret meme turret.

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90' "future soldier" programs were cool as balls.

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>>48113159
You know this one, right?
Fastest jet aircraft ever, Mach 3.3, set the world record

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>>48113880
The US Star Wars program would have continued.

Neutron sources in orbit to interrogate anything flying. IR cameras, particle beams, and railguns like pic related.

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yeah, yeah it's a shoop. But it would be a cool thing to throw into a cold-war-gone-hot game

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BMPT prototype.

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>>48114238
Check out the Pye Wacket anti-missile missile for the XB70.

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>>48114460
Here's the plane it took said record off, the immediate predecessor in the program and only capable of a piddling Mach 3.3

But where the famous Blackbird was a spy plane, armed with nothing more dangerous than a camera...

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>>48114474
The soviet one was pretty baller too. 1-megawatt carbon-dioxide lasers that would destroy a nuke before reentry and even be able to engage other satellites

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>>48114448
For some reason, Europe loved (and still loves) full-body soft armor.

America moved away from it IRL because of the smart weapons and insurgency war high/low combo, but it persists in Europe and is still kinda cool if you squint.

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Moscow's air defenses.

>>48114529
>I told Helga, I fucking told her that wasn't her suit, it was mine and she knew it.
>But, commander's gonna be pissed if I don't show up, and she left her original one here, so...

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>>48114513
The YF-12 was an interceptor, the largest, fastest interceptor ever (it's over 100ft long), armed with 3 AIM-47s, which like the YF-12 never saw active service but served as the predecessor for a successful design that did.
Oh, and though it's an air-to-air missile that doesn't stop it being able to have a 25kt nuclear warhead

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Soviet Cosmonaut self-defense laser pistol in case the Space Race got violent.

Guns must have IR/Thermal imaging scopes and built in 40mm grenade launchers magazine fed. Also, G11's

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>>48114495
That's pretty wild; probably have kind of a big radar signatue though, eh?

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>>48114616
I thought it was for blinding sensors?
Or people, whatever, but the general gist being it's not powerful enough to kill a man directly

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The UDES XX20 experimental tank. The testbed for a lot of tech that would have gone into >>48114180 if it got produced

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>>48113159
Hovercraft and various attempts at 'flying tanks'- assuming all formations in a cold-war-gone-hot scenario would be tac-nuke armed, the way to survival would be to be both fast and armored, to be able to survive the outskirts of a nuclear blast and move fast enough to avoid ever being at the center. Probably fantastically expensive, but as they would also be tacnuke armed you wouldn't need any of them.
So, smallish formations of nuclear-armed hovertanks would be the "Army Of The Future!" Whether it would actually happen depends on a lot of factors (mainly budgetary), but there would probably be at least a few prototypes on both sides.
>>48113880
A more moderate Soviet Union and a general thaw might lead to unrest in the Warsaw Pact as people test the new boundaries, and there would be push-back from reactionaries and hard-liners. Super-spy gadgets would probably see much more actual use than whatever WWIII superweapons have been cooked up. You could potentially even see, say, a joint US-Soviet takedown of a rogue Soviet General during the shake-ups generated by the reforms- ultra top secret on both sides, of course.

Also, I might suggest checking out this webcomic, it portrays a kind of similar scenario.
http://www.viciousprint.com/6commando/comic/and-so-it-goes/

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>>48114482
here's the bigger one

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>>48114675
If i recall correctly if was designed to take out sensors on american suits or capsules, or in a worst-case scenario, to puncture a space suit. Thought you'd probably need several shots to burn a hole in a suit.

Have a Stealth Hind. It's more a 2000s thing but a decade or tech here or there shouldn't be a problem

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In a wierd-cold-war situation Sweden could have been a Nuke nation. We had a supersonic nuclear bomber, the SAAB-36 "Vargen" (Wolf) in the works...

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>>48114782
Ah, you fool, didn't you know that Hinds are only as powerful as they are ugly?
Make one sleek and smooth and it's useless - pic related is how you modernise a Hind

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>>48114919
and the Bandkanon-1 arty system could sling out 15 TacNukes (14+1 up the spout) in 45 seconds. The ideas was to line up a regiment or two of 'em near the finnish border and when Ivan came charging, turn most of northern finland into a radioactive wasteland.

Then someone in our government took a second look at the plans and went "NOPE We're not doing that crazy shit"

>>48113880
If Soviet Union is still around and reforms into a more economic powerhouse, they could easily start sup the ol' war machine to provide arms to third world nations.

China would still be developing, but one of the side effects of the leap forward could be R&D made some interesting discoveries.

As for conflict zones, India and Pakistan could easily end up in a messy ground war, which has the added bonus of a rumble in the jungle for extra Vietnam-ishness.

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If you're going 90s you've got to have business jets with canards.

>>48113159

What you want is a working SDI program, with tensions increasing as the US starts launching KKVs to use in limited, conventional strikes in place of space-mounted nukes.

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>>48113159
Giant tanks are a must.

VAG-73: Select-fire russian pistol with a double mag, one in front of the other firing 7.62 caseless.

>>48114529

All i can think of is space balls.

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>>48113159

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>>48116372
Space Balls?

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>>48113557
Ground effect vehicles in general. Iran has a whole fleet of them apparently.

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How about a mobile base?

>>48116371
XB-70 is sex.

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I remember a thread like this a couple of weeks ago where one anon said he was working on a kaiju cold war setting where the USA and USSR were in spacestations and fought against the each other and the kaijus who now control the world. I wish I could find him again he promised to post what he had. Cold War kaiju anon if your in here im still very interested in your setting.

also a Davy Crockett for your troubles OP.

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rod of god is always a cool idea as well.