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Cold War participants – the Cold War primarily consisted of competition between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.While countries and organizations explicitly aligned to one or the other are listed below, this does not include those involved in specific Cold War events, such as North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Illustrious-class aircraft carrier [1]-WWII era HMS Victorious (R38) modernised in 1950s and in commission till 1968. Implacable-class aircraft carrier [2]-WWII era decommissioned in mid 1950s. Audacious-class aircraft carrier [3] - Served from 1951 till 1979.
The Kanin class were a class of destroyers of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. The Soviet designation was Project 57A Gnevny ( not to be confused with the World War II era Project 7 ). These ships were the first Soviet guided missile destroyers and were initially designated Project 57bis (or 57b) and known to NATO as the Krupny class .
Silhouette of a Whiskey-class submarine with twin 57 mm deck guns and twin 25 mm conning tower guns Silhouette of a Whiskey Long Bin-class submarine Silhouette of a Whiskey Twin Cylinder-class submarine. The initial design was developed in the early 1940s as a sea-going follow-on to the S-class submarine. As a result of war experience and the ...
Sweden had a total of 35 destroyer-class vessels throughout the Cold War, most of them World War II models. As time went on, Sweden begun to put less effort in keeping large surface combatants and instead increasingly relied on patrol boats, fast attack craft, coastal artillery and air superiority. However this approach (especially the ...
December: a short war was fought between Thailand and Laos. December 8: the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Some later claim this was the unofficial beginning of the end of the Cold War. Gorbachev agrees to START I treaty.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union outfitted a number of ships in its fishing and merchant fleets with intelligence-gathering and marine sabotage equipment. [6] This operational provisioning of Soviet merchantmen was known to the United States Navy and, for its part, the United States interfered with the Soviet Union's own undersea cables.