Posted on 02/26/2012 4:27:11 PM PST by DogByte6RER
7 Most Incredible Tank Graveyards on Earth
In certain corners of the globe you'll find the strangest of military cemeteries – places filled not with the bodies of fallen troops but littered with the carcasses of abandoned tanks. These once-formidable weapons of war no longer strike fear into the hearts of opposing forces; their days of rolling inexorably onwards on the teeth of steel tracks are over. Now, the armor of these behemoths is rusting and corroded, their hatches all but sealed from lack of use, and their controls never again to be manned by commanders in battle.
WWII tank graveyard in overgrowth near an abandoned Russian military base
If looking down the barrel of a gun is an unpleasant experience, then staring into the gigantic cylinder of a tank’s cannon must surely magnify the sense of menace tenfold – especially if there is any uncertainty as to whether the weapon is still able to fire its deadly projectile. Braving heat, cacti and other hazards, the urban explorers whose images we have collected have taken some amazing shots of tank graveyards from around the world.
The ‘60s slogan of ‘make love not war’ instantly springs to mind when looking at this cross-section of vehicular cemeteries, located everywhere from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Laos, to Germany, Kuwait and Iraq. Once a war is over, decommissioned and defunct tanks are often simply left to rust and rot. Wrecked or simply forsaken, they stand as sinister reminders of more turbulent times.
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And I realize that the site is not professional, but does no one know how to write anymore?
"[T]heir hatches all but sealed from lack of use"—this means the opposite of what they think it means. They meant, "Their hatch seals are all but gone from lack of use."
"This really does look like a cemetery, with the half-interred remains all too visible." Yes, I remember at the last funeral I attended, how impressed I was that they left the casket half-buried.
Been to Lima, OH. at the Ford engine plant down there. Didn’t know they built tanks there. Seen a lot of tanks up around Sterling Heights though. Doesn’t matter where they’re built, it’s all heavy metal and all of us have a hand in it.
Been to Lima, OH. at the Ford engine plant down there. Didn’t know they built tanks there. Seen a lot of tanks up around Sterling Heights though. Doesn’t matter where they’re built, it’s all heavy metal and all of us have a hand in it.
The Afghanis still use 'em. No automatic loader to eat the loader's arm, as in the T-72
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