Cold War
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Chicka-bow, Chicka-bow... LOL
This video has a good view of the key/groove on the gun/launcher system mentioned in the Sheridan video above. A major contributor to the failure of the M60A2 and the Sheridan as the groove cut inside the gun barrel was a major weak point which resulted in cracked gun barrels.
Erich Hartman's F-86 Sabre, in the West German Luftwaffe. From Twitter.
Shipborne Containerised Air Defence System (SCADS), an 80's Cold War concept for merchant vessel conversion.
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Cuban anti-aircraft gun in front of the Hotel Riviera, Havana.
I see the classic Mirage came in two sizes... regular and extra large 
British Conqueror MK 2 of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment at Soltau training area, July 1959
Flakpanzer Gepard during evaluation trials at Fort Bliss, 1974
Who knew that FIFTY years later this same piece of kit would be highly effective shooting down drones in the Russo-Ukrainian war!
Who knew that FIFTY years later this same piece of kit would be highly effective shooting down drones in the Russo-Ukrainian war!
I'm guessing the tracking system has been upgraded since then but, yeah, 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it'
It had been decommissioned years ago --- taken out of mothballs and supplied to the Ukrainians -- and doing a very good job it seems.