Prototype Patches

Tal Inbar · 07-13-2003, 05:44 AM

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Tal Inbar · 07-13-2003, 01:00 PM

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Nota Bene · 07-13-2003, 01:34 PM

Tal,

I don't know if they are genuine or not, but they are not fantasy. They are part of the 1989 new uniform project, that was never completed. I don't think they were actually distributed to the troops.

Alexei

vikingraider1 · 07-14-2003, 07:37 PM

These belong to the air search and resuce service which dealt with the recovery of cosmonauts, and civilian air disasters etc. The pataches were actually issued in 1990 (13th April the order was approved). Whether they were actually worn I am not too sure of but I would imagine that they were worn in limited numbers.

Nota Bene · 07-15-2003, 04:32 PM

Vikingraider1,

I thought Search and Rescue patches were different. My information is from "Soviet Arm badges. 1920-91 (I)" by A. Stepanov, M., 1999.

Alexei

vikingraider1 · 07-15-2003, 05:02 PM

Sorry!! My head is leaking as usual. You are 100% correct. The badges above are actually draft badges which were designed to replaced the branch of service badges for both Fleet and Armed Forces. None were ever issued however....sorry for the confusion.

07-14-2003, 07:37 PM	#4
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	These belong to the air search and resuce service which dealt with the recovery of cosmonauts, and civilian air disasters etc. The pataches were actually issued in 1990 (13th April the order was approved). Whether they were actually worn I am not too sure of but I would imagine that they were worn in limited numbers. __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922

07-15-2003, 05:02 PM	#6
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	Sorry!! My head is leaking as usual. You are 100% correct. The badges above are actually draft badges which were designed to replaced the branch of service badges for both Fleet and Armed Forces. None were ever issued however....sorry for the confusion. __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922

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