Tank Graveyard

[Blinder]

I want one! ..... or two ...... or ten .....

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/462850/Amazing-pictures-of-hidden-Soviet-tank-graveyard-in-Ukraine-taken-by-plucky-teenager

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I want one! ..... or two ...... or ten .....

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/462850/Amazing-pictures-of-hidden-Soviet-tank-graveyard-in-Ukraine-taken-by-plucky-teenager

For scrap metal? Those things eat 1 gallon of diesel per mile.

[Blinder]

For scrap metal? Those things eat 1 gallon of diesel per mile.

Back forty acres farm toys, of course! 

[APDrone]

egads.. I would hate to see the shipping and handling charge on one of those toys!!

[DaveBB]

Some of the tanks still had the reactive armor blocks on them.  That can't be safe.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYU-uKo1N8


Yeah no tanks for you

[artik]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYU-uKo1N8


Yeah no tanks for you

 

Were did this guy get the tank?

Edit: answer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson

I actually thought he owned one... and got nuts

[danny76]

For scrap metal? Those things eat 1 gallon of diesel per mile.

Beats the crap out of the Chieftain!  That did 4 gallons to the mile!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Were did this guy get the tank?

Edit: answer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson

I actually thought he owned one... and got nuts

I wonder how the police managed to shoot him. Did they cut the commanders hatch open and pistol him to death?

[danny76]

I wonder how the police managed to shoot him. Did they cut the commanders hatch open and pistol him to death?

No, a copper simply climbed onto the tank when he got it stuck on the central barrier of a motorway, opened the hatch and double tapped him.

[MiloMorai]

One of the cops was a tanker and knew how to open the hatch. (at least according to the article)

[MrRiplEy[H]]

One would think that you couldn't just open a tanks hatch from outside like that. Maybe he didn't have it secured as he thought nobodys going to climb on the thing at speed.