Amazing finds in Russia

That is too cool...talk about a fun job...

Wow ... it's like a one-stop used military hardware shop !!!!

Wow now what I would if I found that stuff in my back yard,.....sure wont put it up on ebay.

Ivan to Igor..."Sooo, Vhat do you tink this be worth on Black Market"?

I'll take 2

this makes me wanna buy a cargo ship, go to russia, and loader er up!

Holy ! Are you kidding me? Why don't they just stick up a sign, Bovington or Aberdeen? I betcha there's probably Sputnick and Amelia Erhardt (?) there somewhere.

Great find, Captain !


Nice site !

Cool, it's like a heavy duty treasure hunt.

Y'know, I still have room next to my driveway for a rusty old vehicle! (the neighbors have plows and other 'rural' things.. wouldn't an old tank look GREAT!?) Makes one want to go to Russia with a metal detector, eh what?

Ron

Capt, your killing me here, seeing all this history roting around! Look at this!!! A FW-190!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get that thing restored!!!!!!!!

QUOTE: Originally posted by Poniatowski Y'know, I still have room next to my driveway for a rusty old vehicle! (the neighbors have plows and other 'rural' things.. wouldn't an old tank look GREAT!?) Makes one want to go to Russia with a metal detector, eh what?

My oldest son is from a previous marriage, and lives in a small town in Massachusetts. On the weekends that he doesn't come to visit me, I go up and visit him. So we go out to dinner at a local place, and as we're going into the restaurant, I'm telling him and his mom about the newest kit I'm building, an 8" howitzer, and his mom says, "wow, that sounds like a big gun. Almost like that one." She points across the street, and there is an 8" howitzer, parked on some guy's lawn. The exact gun I am building.

QUOTE: Originally posted by ArmorMaster Capt, your killing me here, seeing all this history roting around! Look at this!!! A FW-190!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get that thing restored!!!!!!!!

Somebody should cross-post this to the air board. Those guys will have a heart attack when they see this.

i have posted it on the wingys

Original glass, original paint, original iron crosses, original equipment, guys before I was an armor fan I was a flyboy and I'm getty a sense of the old wingy-liking feeling again and the anger is building when I see this history rot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I become rich, just for me, history and everyone in the forums I'm going to go into Europe one day and dig up everything I can and put it all in mueseums!!!!!

Look at this thing! It's a sturmashutz or jagdpanther or something, but if that was in my backyard, I hide it in my 3rd garage or make a shed around it!

Look at this, looks like a flying tank sturkmov (spelled wrong)! And the photographer is letting it rot and rust in the cold snow!!!!!!!!

Look at this!!!!! A panzer 4 turret!!! Get it out of the elements, please somebody!!!!!

Allright everybody, lets go have a picnic in our nearby forest. Holy !!! What's this?

OK, hold your breath, walk away slowly and call the bomb squad- NOW!!! It's kinda common sense to get those out of the elements!!!
Somebody's gotta do something!!!

I understand about the stuff laying under the shade of the trees in a forest. I mean, it may be decades before anyone even comes upon it. But what is amazing is that Sturmovik, which appears to be laying around in a field.

The SU-85 (or SU-100?) appears to be out in plain sight too.

I had an Egyptian girlfriend once, and she told me that there are tanks laying all over the Sinai, just rusting away, Egyptian and Israeli, enemies in life, comrades in death.

I’ve seen a documentary about the Battle of Berlin and they were near the Seelow heights talking to some locals, the locals said about the Artillery position that was just left in the woods after the war, it had a full load of ammo, they took some to the local East German Border guards and told them, the reply was "So what" just as long as its not on Military land

All the things on the two sites have been found by collectors and will be sold to the highest bidder im sure of

I’ve got a link to hard targets ill post when I find it
Now they are some things that should be rescued (shermans,M10s,fireflys)

Wow. And did you read the posts below those pics? They said the T-34 engine started and the tank was driven off.

theres another site that they found a IS 2 and a T34/85 in the same bog
http://www.geocities.com/military_archeology/tanks.htm
the tanks were full of ammo and after they were cleaned up they tryed the machine guns and they worked

Pretty cool stuff. Some of you seem very surprised to see it all found now, and not sooner. All I can say is, Russia (and a lot of Europe in that region) has some very wild terrain, very inhospitable and unreachable. I wouldn't be surprised if 100 times this amount of stuff is still left lying around.

Hey guys,

Armormaster, regarding your quote:

"And the photographer is letting it rot and rust in the cold snow!!!!!!!!"

Please remember guys that most people in Russia are very very poor. Finding a tank or plane in their field is pretty much nothing... they just plow around it... too heavy to move in most cases with only horses and cattle available to most farmers or an odd old tractor or two.

I can understand the frustrations but we are quite fortunate in North America in most cases relative to others like in Russia... people are generally very poor and work is very hard to come by

The various museums and restoring houses know about these finds... but the cost of extracating these things is very high especially from the truly remote regions of the world, and not worth the cost.

-Greg

QUOTE: Originally posted by Captain Caveman theres another site that they found a IS 2 and a T34/85 in the same bog http://www.geocities.com/military_archeology/tanks.htm the tanks were full of ammo and after they were cleaned up they tryed the machine guns and they worked

Great links Captain. About the last link, i have been there. They had pictures and an article in the magazine Armourer.
I think im gonna go to russia now.
a pak 36 sitting in a forest! i could have used that for my towed gun group build!!!

The "Lady Be good" (I think that was it?) had some equipment still working-it was a b-24 from WWII. As some may know, It was flying in Africa and it crashed because of dust in the engine or something and a research and recovery crew went out to recover the wreck of the b-24 and their radio died. So they took some radio parts from the b-24's radio and it worked! Just a story of war relics still working after long periods of time....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but many bits and pieces from the Lady Be Good were salvaged for other operational Liberators. Also, did anybody see the NOVA about the B-29 being salvaged? It's a great example of what happens if you get in too big of a rush, and don't look to the little details (wasn't it a loose tool box?)!

Ron

I don't remeber about the lady be good, but I don't think it was salvaged. I think that it was left there for like 50 years or something and then the researchers found it. Can we get a confermaion on that anyone?....