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#BlastFromThePast Visit by Soviet lider N. S. Khrushchev to the AS «Burmeister & Wain Skibsvaerft» shipyard in Copenhagen🇩🇰. Launching of the new vessel "Storyteller Andersen". 1964 https://t.co/jTejaC9ynw Capt_Navy
#ColdWar #BlastFromThePast Interesting article and great photos. Probably this is the “Rrufeja“, a former Soviet “S-360” Whiskey Class submarine. https://t.co/q4Odl4YJMv Capt_Navy
BTW, two years before this event on 27 May 1997, at the NATO Summit in Paris,(France), NATO and Russia signed the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security. https://t.co/sR87Tvl7NR Capt_Navy
#BlastFromThePast #OTD USS Yorktown (CG-48) and USS O'Bannon (DD-987) in Severomorsk on July 1,1992. https://t.co/bgP774NKfg https://t.co/2uhw1Uwb5c Capt_Navy
October 29, 1955 #OTD #BlastFromThePast The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk (former Italian Giulio Cesare) strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. Killing 608 sailors. R.I.P. https://t.co/hVF1FslJg2 Capt_Navy
#BlastFromThePast #ColdWar 🇺🇸USS New Jersey (BB-62),an Iowa-class battleship in the Sea of Japan on September 16, 1986. The picture was taken from the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear-D" plane of the maritime reconnaissance and targeting. https://t.co/3kJsRQYx4P Capt_Navy
#BlastFromThePast #ColdWar 🇺🇸The US Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet in the sky above f the Sea of Japan on September 16, 1986. The picture was taken from the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear-D" plane of the maritime reconnaissance and targeting. https://t.co/4Eoxi929Mb Capt_Navy
#BlastFromThePast Superb!📸I wouldn't mind having such a lens for shipspotting! https://t.co/hRx7IOnIZi Capt_Navy
#ColdWar #BlastFromThePast The ceremony of commissioning of the lead nuclear ballistic missile submarine "Ohio" SSBN-726 on November 11,1981. The man in front in a black raincoat is Admiral Hyman G. Rickover is the "Father of the Nuclear Navy."In this picture, he is 81 years old. https://t.co/clXzf4yPLa https://t.co/zniSPciN4a Capt_Navy
RT @Saturnax1: #blastfromthepast #History #ColdWar I don't think we're going to witness anything like this in the foreseeable future - Soviet Navy's Project 1164 Atlant/Slava class guided missile cruiser Marshall Ustinov visiting U.S. Navy's Naval Station Mayport in 1989. https://t.co/56xZ1h80Pk Capt_Navy
#BlastFromThePast #OTD Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with the Republic of Belarus'/Republic of Kazakhstan's/Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. https://t.co/sZimXiLuiM Capt_Navy