ruxy Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 (edited) Don't know if this was posted up yesterday ? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2612347/Where-tanks-die-The-German-graveyard-dismantled-15-000-armoured-vehicles-Europe-countries-strip-military.html Edited April 25, 2014 by ruxy spelin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDT16 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 I'll take a few!! If you worked there you could sneak a piece home every day and put it back together at home It makes me think of that Johny Cash song! SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 As there only appears to be two blokes working there I think they will have a job for life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toner Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 I found this line a bit ominous "Russia announced it was suspending from its obligations under the treaty in 2007" Err...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeferret Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 They sure park them tight..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondshooter Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 one picture showed a lot of water tanks mixed in with the real tanks , I wonder if some one was being a bit creative , a tank is a tank after all (and a dam good swop for a real tank!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mill comms Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Just one Marder IFV in the Littlefield collection is estimated to sell at $175,000 USD.Bet they cant get that amount for them as scrap. Should have sold them to the UK Army, put them through ABRO Refurb, and the would not have to go through FRES ASCOD, and saved a billion pounds, but then we have QE so money has no value! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeferret Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 They should open it up for tourists and make some money from that.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Its heartbreaking in a way to think....from 1945 up until probably the 1960s ??? there were very similar yards all over Europe and the Far East doing the same with Shermans , Churchills , M10s , Chaffees , Panthers ,Tigers .you name it ....literally thousands of them were unceremoniously lamped up for scrap ..and the fellas doing the work then , didn't think anymore of what they were doing everyday than these chaps do here..... The giant steel mills just outside of Caen was 'the end of the line' for thousands of fighting vehicles from Normandy alone through out the 1950s......whilst here in the UK..... Pounds in Portsmouth , the various yards of TW Wards and Cohens Scrap Merchants alone must have cut up hundreds and hundreds of fighting vehicles from WW2 ... and..as short a time ago as the 1990s , Hurst Brothers were absolutely flat out lamping up Chietains......... It's all just so much scrap metal after all ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RecyMech Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Once there is no longer enough 'conventional' hardware to fight a 'conventional war' or the trained troops to carry it out when needed.....what then? A world at peace ?.....I don't think so. There are still nutters in charge here & there, watching & waiting until the free world has little left to fight aggression with. Removing the means to keep a conventional war conventional leaves the politicians & their generals with little alternative but to either surrender, or press the ball of sunshine button. Very short sighted in my opinion. H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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