tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I know this might have been done before but here is a few of the old hulks and wrecks about Basrah Airport in old Iraq...ive some pictures of the Tank Graveyard in Kabul (again has it been done because I dont want to bore you lads?) i'll get them scanned.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 more of the same, MTLB's this time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 some more, T55's loads of them..hundreds maybe....This one was out side the DANBAT camp......last thing i saw of it was heading off on a low loader... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 And some more..this time its two Wrecks outside the wire... at the Airport... both had one hell of a "knock" at one time..:shocked: I was told most of the Armour was knocked out during Op Granby rather than the later telic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 Some Arty this time..I'm not great with bits of Arty....so i'll leave it to you guys to name it...:sweat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recymech66 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Here is one of my photos of the T55 you last saw on a lowloader, this was taken aboard the MV Eddystone as it stopped in Cyprus to offload/pickup vehicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 tartan ninja I'm not great with bits of Arty 122mm D74 field gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 Ahhh dont know who has it now but it mine for at least all of 5 Mins...Knew i should have hidden the thing....LOL :-D Cheers for the post I thought the Danes had had it away...:rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recymech66 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 No mate it went to Marchwood then no idea, probably going to end up as some gate guard or museum piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I've seen a lot worse than that BRDM-2 restored! Nice little vehicles. How does it work over there, is it just finders keepers? I'd love an MTLB but those ones look a bit rough Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 (edited) I think I know just the place :cool2:....Tank Grave yard outside Kabul easy to get stuff here the Americans lifted a FT17 WW1 vintage tank from here and there has been loads of early biplanes recovered in the last few years from the other smaller scrapyard off to the left of this picture...think it would cost a fortune to get it home though :-( Got a few more to scan, its got T34's, T34/85's, BRDM's BTR's, BMD's, MTLB's, T55's and T62's and quite a few other Types.... pity its not the most handy place at the moment...but who knows in a few years ! Edited December 29, 2009 by tartan-ninja forgot the types Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recymech66 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I've seen a lot worse than that BRDM-2 restored! Nice little vehicles. How does it work over there, is it just finders keepers? I'd love an MTLB but those ones look a bit rough Stone I think there is all sorts of hoops you have to jump through to get kit back, not just a case of, oi get that f%$king tank on that ship.:cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I bet you could get away with it if you were dressed the part :cool2: Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Thanks for the pics, more please!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevpol Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Thanks for the pics, more please!! I agree, more, more, more :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Mark :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan-ninja Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 another couple...will get the older Afghan ones sorted out Er please ignore the idiot in front of the MTLB.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bystander Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Interesting photos, thanks for sharing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fadedsun Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Russian engineering meets Western tanks... As an FYI, avoid the ones that have little 120mm holes in them. DU.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Weren't most of the Iraqi ones abandoned by the crews without firing a shot? (in GW1 at least!) Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fadedsun Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Weren't most of the Iraqi ones abandoned by the crews without firing a shot? (in GW1 at least!) Stone Some, but barring the typical catastrophic Russian tank turret toss, you can't really be sure (unless it's burnt through and through). 120mm might be hard to miss, but 25mm and 30mm fired by the Bradley and Hog are smaller and easily skipped... AFAIK the US is the only nation to use Depleted uranium slugs in cannons.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazz Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Don't forget, 120mm is includuing the Sabot, the penetrator holes can be much smaller, this depends on the angle of attack that the penetrator struck at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 No mate it went to Marchwood then no idea, probably going to end up as some gate guard or museum piece. As I said in a previous post about shipping stuff back from theatre. It CAN be done! If they can ship a Tank back, Artillery peices would be easier! This will most probably end up as a unit Gate Guardian/ Trophy.:-\ I suspect this is something organised within a unit at high level on the quiet! Good for them! :yay: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 fadedsun AFAIK the US is the only nation to use depleted uranium slugs in cannons I assume you mean in the 1st and 2nd Iraqi wars. In addition to the U.S. the former Soviet Union (therefore any of the now independant states and Russia itself) use D.U in calbres 115 and 125 and possibly in smaller high velocity weapons. After the Falklands War Britiain received batches of 20mm Phalank (gatling gun) D.U. ammunition for the weapons retro-fitted to major British naval vessels, this casued press consternation and a quick switch to tungsten, in the 1990s the USN discontinued 20mm D.U. for the Phalank and changed to tungsten. I don't know if the British Army used D.U. in 120mm cannons in service, however a fair number of were expended into the Irish Sea if I remember correctly from DERA Seascale, but possibly also trialed at Kirkcudbright but again into the sea not against hard targets. There are also stories of D.U. being tested elsewhere in the U.K. but are probably stories. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 (edited) There are also stories of D.U. being tested elsewhere in the U.K. but are probably stories. Steve Not stories but fact, they fired them just up the road from me at Foulness & also at West Freugh http://www.parliament.uk/post/pn154.pdf http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/754870.Atomic_contamination_tests_at_firing_ranges/ http://archive.echo-news.co.uk/2001/2/21/186814.html Edited February 7, 2010 by Marmite!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 safariswingNot stories but fact, IMO there is no information presented other than “stories” media generated reporting and reports are not facts. While the PN154.pdf document is somewhat out of date it supports what I said in my previous post. Neither of the other 2 documents “echo news” gives any factual information. The Echo revealed last month how depleted uranium was secretly fired around 200 times on the island by the Atomic Weapons Establishment during the mid-1980s to early 1990s. How did they reveal? do they have a credable witness, does the Southend Echo have Mosad style spy network capabilities and while I am very sceptical about Government of any colour and the MOD I am also very sceptical when academics give testimony to select committees and the reporting media (in this case the Southend Echo) fail to support their summation with verifiable evidence, further fails to report for whom the academic speaks (The retired prof. in question is a spokesman and adviser to the Gulf war Veterans association- which I don’t have a problem with, but that should always be reported) . I don’t know if any DU was fired on Foulness however hard targets placed there in the past will have leaked trace amounts of isotopes in the environment (the common one is Thorium) along with huge amounts of other toxic materials of lesser controversy. It is also perfectly possible that DU rounds were fired into the sea from Foulness, however what would be value as this work was at the time already being done at Easkmeals. It is also known that as the navy had 20mm DU rounds until 2004 these must have been expended on some range but again it was probably into the sea. The DERA facility at West Freugh possibly took over from the Dera facility at Kirkcudbright closed and while there is a good possibility that DU ammunition could be fired from their facility there is no hard evidence in the post (nor anything in the Web media) that they have done so –there is a firing point ranging into Luce bay that is easily viewed by the public or anti nuclear protesters and is in very close proximity to a caravan park. In the past DERA West Freugh has a bad press for dropping Cluster Bombs into Luce Bay and failing to adequately clean up and is therefore likely to be on various watch lists of weapons protestors. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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