US Cold War Artists Impressions

[overscan (PaulMM)]

http://www.dia.mil/history/art/militaryArt.htm

Great stuff!

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

More, including the amazing Afghani trials of a laser tank that certainly existed only in the overheated imaginations of the US DIA.

 

[Meteorit]

Magnificent! Already years ago some paintings were published at the FAS site, but this collection contains many more.

 

[Abraham Gubler]

Recently Triton has been posting lots of 'artist's impressions' images from the cold war era DIA's Soviet Military Power annual report. The DIA has a special webpage detailing many of these pictures including some not at defenseimages.mil as part of their Smithsonian exhibition.

http://www.dia.mil/history/art/militaryArt.htm

 

[Triton]

Recently Triton has been posting lots of 'artist's impressions' images from the cold war era DIA's Soviet Military Power annual report. The DIA has a special webpage detailing many of these pictures including some not at defenseimages.mil as part of their Smithsonian exhibition.

http://www.dia.mil/history/art/militaryArt.htm

Duplicate topic my friend. To Search or not to Search.

"US Cold War Artists Impressions" by overscan.
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,462.msg3139/highlight,dia+mil+history+art+militaryart+htm.html#msg3139

 

[Steve Pace]

Reminds me of bubble gum card illustrations in the 1950s.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Topics merged.

 

[flateric]

laser tank that certainly existed only in the overheated imaginations of the US DIA.

well, not quite certainly...

 

[bobbymike]

A lot of these photos found their way into the "Soviet Military Power" publications of the 80's. These publications were meant to facilitate the US military build-up during the same time, which I fully supported. When I began studying the comparative militaries of the US and Soviets and saw those huge SS-18s, 19s and 24's, the Typhoons and Akulas along with the Soviet conventional ground force numbers, I was worried the West would lose WWIII. I could not understand why MX wasn't being build in greater numbers, why the US did not have a missile as powerful as the SS-18.

Interesting to look back to that time :

 

[Abraham Gubler]

Duplicate topic my friend. To Search or not to Search.

LOL

 

[CAIR67]

Wow those paintings look really similar to this original painting I have hanging up on my wall. Found it about 8 years ago in the Washington DC area.