The relics of the cold war, decommissioned nuclear submarines of the long gone soviet navy undergoing scrapping, in many cases with help of european and american personnel, as the Russians simply didn’t have enough budget to properly dispose of these beasts.
Quite a sad sight, but that’s the nature of military hardware development: What was once cutting edge, one day will only keep the value of the materials it’s made from.
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Las reliquias de la guerra fría, submarinos nucleares dados de baja de la desaparecida armada soviética siendo chatarrizados, en muchos casos con ayuda de personal europeo y americano, ya que los rusos simplemente no tenían suficiente presupuesto para deshacerse de estas bestias.
Unas imágenes muy tristes, pero esa es la naturaleza del desarrollo de las maquinas de guerra: Lo que algunas vez fue tecnología de punta, un día solo valdrá el peso del material del que está hecho.
US Navy surveillance of the first Soviet F-class submarine to surface
near the Cuban quarantine line (October 25th, 1962).
A Lockheed P-2 Neptune patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter
(October/November 1962).
The Soviet ship Kasimov removes 15 Soviet Ilyushin Il-28 aircraft
from Cuba (October/November 1962). The USSR was in the process of
providing them for local assembly in Cuba, but this was halted by the
missile crisis, and Khrushchev agreed to remove them.
Soviet personnel and six missile transporters are loaded onto a
Soviet ship in the Port of Casilda (Cuba, November 6th,
1962). The RF-101 reconnaissance jet taking the photograph casts a
shadow on the lower right.
A Soviet submarine near the Cuban coast controls the withdrawal of
Soviet missiles in accordance with the US-USSR agreement (November
10th, 1962). American planes and helicopters flew at a
low level to keep watch on the dismantling and loading operations,
and Americans warships watched over Soviet freighters carrying the
missiles back to the USSR.
The USS Dahlgren (DDG-43), a guided missile ship, trails the SS
Leninsky Komsomol as it departs the Port of Casilda (Cuba, November
10th, 1962).
US Navy surveillance of the first Soviet F-class submarine to surface
near the Cuban quarantine line (October 25th, 1962).
A Lockheed P-2 Neptune patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter
(October/November 1962).
The Soviet ship Kasimov removes 15 Soviet Ilyushin Il-28 aircraft
from Cuba (October/November 1962). The USSR was in the process of
providing them for local assembly in Cuba, but this was halted by the
missile crisis, and Khrushchev agreed to remove them.
Soviet personnel and six missile transporters are loaded onto a
Soviet ship in the Port of Casilda (Cuba, November 6th,
1962). The RF-101 reconnaissance jet taking the photograph casts a
shadow on the lower right.
A Soviet submarine near the Cuban coast controls the withdrawal of
Soviet missiles in accordance with the US-USSR agreement (November
10th, 1962). American planes and helicopters flew at a
low level to keep watch on the dismantling and loading operations,
and Americans warships watched over Soviet freighters carrying the
missiles back to the USSR.
The USS Dahlgren (DDG-43), a guided missile ship, trails the SS
Leninsky Komsomol as it departs the Port of Casilda (Cuba, November
10th, 1962).
