#Cold War era

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Two YF-12/Blackbirds in flight. Dryden Flight Research Center, 1975 ➤EXTREME AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/Extreme ➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/YF12s

[stone-cold-groove]

New radar sky-watch to guard arctic frontier. Western Electric ad - 1952.

[theorphicallure]

I’m a different woman with you. And I don’t like myself that way.

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Cold War (2018).

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Walking in Your Footsteps

I know a lot of us are having a hard time. Some of us are scared, with justificiation, about what we will be facing in the coming years.

I'd like to roll the clock back to the mid 1980s for a minute. I was a teenager and had become convinced, as did many people of my age, that we would die in a nuclear firestorm before we were thirty.

We had justification for this. Read the news from the time. Listen to speeches by politicians.

But more than that, listen to the music:

99 Luftballons

The Russians

Walking in Your Footsteps

Distant Early Warning

Christmas at Ground Zero

Hammer to Fall

Ronnie Talk to Russia

I Melt with You

That's just off the top of my head nearly 40 years later, but it was the background noise of my youth.

I didn't particularly believe I would have an adulthood. I lived between the US national capital, a state capital and well over a dozen military bases. I figured I'd probably die in a nuclear firestorm, so having a future? Feh. It was unlikely I would have one.

To this day, conceptualizing a future, working towards it, and actually believing in it is hard.

I could have had a degree paid for by Mom and Dad. Did I? Nope. There were lots of reasons, but I won't say that beliving in the back of my mind that a degree or a career was a pointless waste of my very limited time was part of it.

I was nearly 21 when the Berlin Wall came down. I had started thinking about Christmas shopping, and I was sitting in the local mall parking lot listening to the news on my radio rather stunned. I realized I didn't know how to have a future.

I'm still not good at it and I won't say I don't have my Denthor days.

Y'all?

Maybe we don't have a future, sure enough, but...

You gotta pretend. Grow a plant. Plan something for a year from now that will take some time to work on between now and then.

Maybe the future really is a lie, but...

You know how in Hogfather where Death talks about having to practice with the little lies like the Tooth Fairy and the Hogfather as a child, so that when you are a grownup, you can commit to the big ones -- Justice... Mercy.

HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?

[nocternalrandomness]

Cold War adversaries from the north together at the 2015 Jersey Air Display

[dapper-suitor]

Did an art challenge on insta and thought I’d repost it here 🙏

[colleybri]

To the Peter Gabriel fan on the crew of The Americans… omg, let’s get married! Lay Your Hands on Me hits extra hard now. “Watched on by the distant eyes, watched on by the silent hidden spies”. And oh yes: “ there are no accidents round here”.

Chills.

[frogersonlydotcom]

Evolution of high-altitude flight suits into the first space suits.

National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL

[blacknarcissus]

Brinkmanship in Berlin.

Claire Bloom and James Mason in The Man Between (1953) dir. Carol Reed

[glendylucast]

Tangerine

Redraw her two times because the pose was to stiff but this one is better now

Meet Elke Irmengard Zimmermann, the BND OC from my personal project, Pantheon's Ark!, in her main Campaign skin.

More official info on her coming soon!

[semiconductorwave]

Soviet naval auxiliary Kapusta class nuclear-powered missile range ship SSV-33. 1989.

[dronescapesvideos]

F-4 Phantom II of Fighter Squadron (VF) 142 pictured on final approach for recovery on board the carrier Constellation (CVA 64) steaming in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam on August 14, 1967

➤VIDEO: https://youtu.be/hDDOCds46l0

➤VIETNAM AND KOREA: https://dronescapes.video/Vietnam

[theworstofallpossibleworlds]

The lads protect their precious bodily fluids and fight in the War Room as they cover Stanley Kubrick's Cold War comedic masterwork: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

[version-13]

no man's land 2024 somewhere in Poland

[stone-cold-groove]

This film has been declassified.

[nocternalrandomness]

OV-1 Mohawk operated by Mohawk Technologies flying a demo at OSHKOSH