Reminder that Aircraft Boneyards exist. Basically just thousands

>>31346801
You an take a tour, or go next door and tour the Pima Air and Space Museum which has received one of almost every plane ever stored in the Bone Yard. Close by is also the only in-tact nuclear missile silo you can tour: the Titian II Museum. Otherwise, there's nothing out there but desert.

Doubtful.

However they would notice the amount of people it would take to get one in the air. You think they have thousands of pounds of jet fuel on them ready to takeoff? You gonna bring your own APU to them?

>>31346835
O shit I missed the nuke silo when I was there

also fuck Tuscon

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>>31346801
good luck getting them out of there. You'd have better luck pilfering derelict tanks from Eastern European storage yards (or better yet, abandoned Soviet facilities). Seeing as how protestors have driven T-series tanks right off of war memorials and into the streets by doing little more than filling the fuel tank, I seriously doubt you'd have to do much to get just one tank moving. Worst case scenario, you keep trying tanks until you find a functional one.

>>31346801
>I wonder if they would notice of a couple planes went 'missing'...
You must be 18 years old to post friendo

have you been to that boneyard? have you seen the condition those planes are in? are you aware its inside a military base? do you know what it takes to get a plane in the air, let alone one thats been sitting in the fucking Arizona sun for 30 years and may be missing several key components. Fuck youre dumb

>>31346876
I'd love to do this but not just tanks, I want to find any abandoned motor vehicle and drive it around.

>>31346835
Is there a concrete filled missile in the silo? Or multiple?

>>31346876
If you get arrested say you're tank-kin. You'll have people lining up to protest for you

>>31346910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjKbRbcoN9E

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>>31346801
>> I wonder if they would notice of a couple planes went 'missing'...
If that was possible then they would already be gone.

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>>31346956
what the actual fuck

>>31346876
The novorossiyan forces have actually done this, and successfully deployed a memorial IS series tank in the recent conflict

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>>31346956
impressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aDMqFrUV8

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>>31346987
apparently some idiots tried to smuggle an entire Mi-6 out of a vehicle graveyard in pieces to use as a café in Kiev, they ended being arrested IIRC

I'm kinda bummed out that I'll never be able to see the graveyards, and not just because I want a free glow-in-the-dark BRDM

>>31347041
I hear they have a T-34 too, the Ukrainian conflict is weird as fuck.

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>>31347126
>>I hear they have a T-34 too, the Ukrainian conflict is weird as fuck.
Slavs are very resourceful.

>>31347142
in that particular case I give most of the credit to the design itself. If there's one weapon that can survive decades of heavy use and abuse, it's a Maxim.

>>31346801
How many b52's do they still have mothballed?

>>31346956
That's fucking awesome and I'd do shit like that in America but I'd be afraid I'd be stealing someone's car

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>>31347283
the August inventory list for AMARC has none listed
http://www.amarcexperience.com/ui/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205&Itemid=274

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>>31347543
Sorry my mistake, it has 107 listed. Must be going blind lol

>>31347543
>Convair XC-99: 1

I need to find this. Already found the 1 YC-14 they had.

>>31346801
My dad was an F-15 mechanic.

I asked him what exactly it would take to get a jet that has not been maintained for months or years airborn.

Airborn? Like 1 flight and a landing? A 100 person crew of highly trained expensivley equipped mechs working round the clock, about a week.

Combat ready (as defined as being on the same operational level as a non-boneyard jet) about 2 to 3 weeks for that same crew.


Would also cost a few million a pop. High-stress and precision machined jet components are obscenely expensive.

>>31346801
OP there is a reason it's called a boneyard you toss. Most of those planes are stripped of parts to repair planes in service.

None of the intact planes are flight-ready.

You can't fly a plane.

>>31348296
People have no friggin idea how maintenance heavy planes are.

If you parked a brand new fighter jet in a hangar and walked away for 6 months it wouldnt be airworthy.

They require constant round the clock maintenance to stay airborn.

Leaving one in the sun and sand for years? Forget about it. That bitch will never reasonably fly again without dumping assloads of money and manpower at it.

>>31348245
Well, yes and no. Given that the more sensitive components are removed and stored properly, that the plane is sealed correctly and the regular checks are followed, there isn't really any damage done to the plane. Procedure is relatively straight forward and I say relatively only because US aircraft are built (aswell as the manner in which they train their techs) in a way that makes maintenance and repairs needlessly complex and time-consuming.

In any case, a single jet wouldn't take a hundred man crew anything, as such a large crew isnt necessary.

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>>31346801

That's a lot of Big Planes. Do they fly good?

>>31348397
I should have specified.

I meant in an emergency scenario or for the fastest possible refit.

Yeah, a 15, 10, or 5 person crew could do it, it would just take a lot longer.

Actually, some doctors in my area pooled money and bought an old mig.

Found out fighter aircraft are money pits and theres a reason private buyers dont purchase them more often. Even eccentric wealthy people pooling resources have trouble keeping them flightworthy.

I agree on the needlessly complex thing though. All military gear is like that in the US, because our shit isnt made to fight wars so much as to feed our military industrial complex.

>>31346843
Put it in your pocket and walk out. I doubt they search everyone.

>>31347283
The B-52s in the boneyard are all cut up due to start, new start and salt agreements.

>>31348578
Of course it's a money pit as civilians, but that is because they don't have the resources. Engines need to be rebuilt and serviced and so on, but that is irrelevant in the case were discussing. The airframe doesn't get very degraded from sitting where they sit and the internals are either sealed, removed to better storage or drained and oiled. Planes kept with the intention to perhaps be refitted and return to active service are kept in such a condition that it's possible. Having 100 people working on a single airplane sounds like a clusterfuck of unbelievable proportions to my ears.

Saw US planes next to gripens on an air show a few years ago. The US plane had 12 technicians attached too it and they all felt understaffed and experienced problems from it. The gripen had 2 technicians and they didn't. Circumstantial perhaps, but it does say something.

>>31347126
at the 14 minute mark the tank rolls forward, ancient dust pouring out. Awaken old one. Awake and go out to destroy once again.

>>31348491
**sigh* I now understand what a woman feels when she offers a pity fuck.

"For you."

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>>31346801
if you want a surplus plane that badly, I'm sure you could just buy a MiG or a dozen from Finnish Airforce

(they might be something of fixer-uppers though)

>>31346956
dindus really *will* steal anything that isn't nailed down, until they come back with a stolen crowbar that is...

>>31347264
I recal that when British Army surplussed their vickers machineguns they fired one non-stop for a week without breakages...

>>31349177
The ancient war god rising from it's slumber, ready to destroy the fascists once more

>>31349188

Pity fuck? U wot m8. Baneposting is more like women can't help but "for you"ing Chads.

When Chads show up, women for you them all over.

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>>31346801
>I wonder if they would notice of a couple planes went 'missing'...

Well, the Ruskies would certainly notice.
Which is why we did this in the first place...

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>>31349979
>Poor Finn Fix A Completely Destroyed Mig With Just An Axe (Full Official Video) (Subtitle) (MUST SEE)

>>31349177
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvdCsXevMnI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCUnhoe0rpU

>tfw there's still five Tomcats in the Arizona boneyard, still waiting for their chance to kill commies
;_;

>>31346876
Found one that runs. Bad news: It's in the middle.

>>31346901
> implying you don't want to make your kid the coolest zip line with a deactivated f4 phantom

>>31350008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ZSR0pfg5Y

>>31350827
"video unavailable" or something like that, what it actually says to me might as well be Hebrew as far as vast majority of people here are concerned...

>>31346956
Lawl is that from a documentary or something?

>>31346853
>also fuck Tuscon
OH SHIT

>>31347126
Ukrainians are actually pretty good engineers. Many of the best soviet design bureaus were full of Ukrainians or even based in Ukraine. Part of the reason Putin is fighting so hard to keep Ukraine in Russia's sphere of influence. Give those guys some real money and they might become an actual first world country.

>>31350052
Yep. They had to do barrel changes, but nothing in the gun itself failed for the entire duration of firing iirc.

>>31349098
Most US planes today were built in the '70s, where end user convenience was not a concern among Cold War designers who had unlimited budgets. Planes like the Gripen were built much later and designed specifically for ease of maintenance.

The F-35 is actually the first US fighter to actually have design requirements for ease of maintenance. It's why a lot of American mechanics love working on them.