It didn't have to be this way...

>>31950481
These are like looking at a relatively hot chick that's been beheaded by the Mexican cartels.

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>>31950481
This is a sad thread

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>>31950492
Saddest anime death.

Why don't they just put them in a museum?

>>31950486
Not dead. Organ donors so others may live.

>>31950647
because money

>>31950659
A...anon....

Organ doners are dead...

>>31950586
I want to refurb this poor thing and make her airworthy again.

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Top ten saddest anime deaths

>>31950502
Sad like hell. They should be at least painted and put in some squares and public places.

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mass grave

>>31950647
Hundreds or thousands of planes made, and only a few dozen museums with space for them, not to mention the funds to transport them there and maintain them in a presentable state. Eventually you end up with a bunch of old planes that are only good for scrap, even if they were lucky enough to avoid getting turned into drones and shot down in training.

Also, my dad knows a guy who owns an aviation scrapyard with a ton of military stuff, I've always wanted to go out there. I have an old Martin-Baker ejection seat bucket that came from there. The same dude also has a working Cobra and rents it out for movie/TV filming.

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>>31955170

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>>31952962
>mfw all those F-86s were just thrown away and not sold

>>31955187
Thats such an australian thing.

>>31955215

The only conflicts we were ever really able to get warbirds from were WWII and Korea.

There are also a few dozen milsurp Huey's and***ONE*** F-4 Phantom in private hands, so you could maybe count Vietnam as well.

Anything after that will be as rare as hen's teeth.

>>31955215
Pretty sure i'm seeing F-84F's, m8.

>>31950502
Stackars Draken..

Reminds me of a neighbor who bought a Draken. Put it on his yard and didn't take care of it. It just rusted away. There was a birdsnest in the rear landing gear, and the nosecone was removed along with bits of the wings.
I think he sold it for scrap after awhile. Sad. Draken is one of my favorite planes.

>>31958071
Do you know what markings that draken had? Im trying to figure out wich one it is...

>>31950521
I know what you mean.
Still kind of hot but you know they're dead so you only touch them not use them

>>31958103
I'm afraid not.
Looks like a zero and a four on the tailfin. Although I'm not sure of the four.

>>31958149
Ok. Do you mind telling me the location?

>>31950502

Reminds me of what I saw as a conscript, near the garrison there was this area where there was a few rusting drakens and some mig 21s, should've taken a pic t. western neighbour

>>31958159
Did you mean the Draken in my story? The one in the picture I've no idea in any case, in my story it was in Landfjärden. South of Stockholm, between Ösmo and Västerhaninge.

>>31955986
Shit my bad.

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>>31958163
Yes you should

>>31958179
I think this might be the one

>>31958179
It was a J 35D with serial number 35329

I never understood why they didn't just turn this shit into playparks for kids

Do you know how fucking dope it was to go to Air Force museums and play around in the cockpits of the planes they let you get into?

>>31958204
It might be the one from the pic. But it can't be the one from my story, unless the pic was taken before the story and they removed the radar.

>>31958219
Liberals afraid of sharp edges. Muh military mindset, muh indoctrination and scary war weapons.
And, from experience, I know some think a single old plane in the middle of nowhere makes the entire surrounding area a target for enemy forces.

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>>31950481

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8

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Have you guys seen anything sadder?

>>31958387
>motherfucker doesn't know about steel panther

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Coincidentally, my friend has been texting me pics all day of a boneyard he's at.

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F-86 crashed into an ice cream parlor and killed a whole bunch of kids.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Sacramento_Canadair_Sabre_accident

>>31959965
>>31959976
>>31959988

Looks more like a museum then a boneyard

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>>31960040
>An eight-year-old survivor of the accident lost nine family members including both parents, two brothers, a sister, two grandparents and two cousins.

Fuck

>>31960085
Well the Pima Air and Space Museum is right next to THE Boneyard so maybe that's what he's talking about.

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>>31950481
>I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

>>31955324
There's also a BAe Harrier in private ownership.

>>31950486
Is that at AMARG?

How much would it cost to buy an old plane form a graveyard/ can you 2 lazy 2 google

It'd make a hell of a yard decoration

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>>31961386
Used to plink at tank hulls in the outskirts of Kabul.

I miss those nights just sitting there bullshitting with my bros, nothing to worry about except who would be dumb enough to pull out a can of dip first and be forced to share with the rest of the team.

When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the desert.

>>31950481
STANDING

>>31950481
What's the smaller blue and white aircraft in the background? Trainer of some sort? Looks a bit like the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly.

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/597290135

>>31955324
Raptor has like 5 F4's for sale only 60k each

>>31959965
Pima?

>>31950481
Be sweet to buy it and turn it into a flight sim rig though.

>>31962606
Yeah, that's Pima Air and Spess Museum. Check it out on Google maps, the street view car drove through it.

>>31959988
Oh shit, a Super Guppy. I didn't know there were any of those left around.

>>31959976
>B-36

That's a museum, anon. There are literally none of those left outside of museums.

>>31955187
OI QUICK MATE, WE BETTER BURY ALL THE F-111s OR AL-NUSRA WILL GET THEIR HANDS ON EM' AYE

Fucking embarrassing

>>31955125

At least they went out fighting.

>>31950759
>I must sleep

>>31964401
F-111?

>>31955187
Why is this done? Why are the planes not simply scrapped?

>>31958112
This actually isn't there anymore, they built a levee around it, drained the water and then scapped the steel.

>>31964486
Looks like one of the Blackjacks that Ukraine scraped.

>>31960313
Holy fuck that is one hell of a case of survivor's guilt...

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>>31964529

Partly because of this -

In 2009 a Parliamentary Inquiry examined the health and compensation issues surrounding F-111 deseal/reseal workers and their families, and other F-111 fuel tank maintenance workers, with particular reference to the unique fuselage repair work undertaken and the health risks involved.

http://www.dva.gov.au/benefits-and-payments/f-111-fuel-tank-maintenance

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>>31964401
>>31964401

Nothing will ever soften the blow

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>>31962305
>tfw a country as beautiful as Afghanistan has been getting shat on since the 70s

feels bad man

>>31964401
>Hey the Ruskies left some strategic bombers right in our lap!
>Lets scrap them!
How retarded.

>>31950647
Because they were either mothballed or used for spare parts.

>>31959988
>Super Guppy
B29 with a malignant Tumor

This is what Happened to the enola Gay a few years after it dropped the bomb

>>31958219
When I was a kid a playground nearby had an old jet (can't remember what it was) that they basically filled with concrete. Was a lot of fun but at one point metal panels started to pop up and kids were getting lacerated pretty badly so they pulled it out.

>>31962505
>Looks a bit like the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly

That's because it's the same airframe, the A-37 was the result of this:
>"this T-37 is so fucking neat, you can swoop down and scare the shit out of cows"
>"lmao true"
>"like what if they put a gun in the front and rockets on the wings? wouldn't that be sweet?"
>"kek that would be cool"
>...
>thoughts
>gears turning
>"why don't we do that?"

Before /k/ the shitposting was tacking guns onto shit and the memes were dead gooks.

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>>31952962

this one legitimately upsets me

>>31955187
Honestly this is not that bad, as those are now preserved and possibly 80 years or so from now there might be an interest to dig one or two up for a historical reasons or something

Or perhaps a clever annon with a backhoe can dig one up for himself...

>F111 fuselage lawn decoration FTW

>>31960313
Little Billy later went on to work on MANPAD systems for the military

>>31955125


I can't identify these, but this got me thinking...anyone ever seen a picture of two opposing tanks side-by side that each may have disabled the other?

That would be kind of romantic, in a corny sort of way. They'd sit there rusting for years after knocking each other out, you could imagine them getting to be good friends.

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>>31958131
>you muttonheads, that's not how the turret goes on. This is why we can't hold down a job!

>>31964401
>Using a pair of giant shears, quickly cut off the front of the plane 1/4th of a meter behind the cockpit. This kills the plane.

>>31969173
Kek

Okay, story time subject related
>on the way back from afghan
>land in romania
>plane is late, stuck there for a week
>obviously being marine infantry the first thing we do is find a source of booze and local women with loose morality
>havent drank anything but warm water for 9 months, 2 beers in and im pretty lit
>try to get my dick sucked by local floozy but she wants cash, and I dont have any
>begin hanging out with romanian border guards
>get even more drunk
>talk about rows of abandoned MIGS and HIND gunships we saw on opposite side of base
>romanian guy who kinda speaks english explains that when russia left them behind romania only had enough money to maintain about a 3rd of what got left, the rest got bone-yarded
>also he can take us out there to see them
>me and buddies agree
>hanging out with our new slavbros in soviet aircraft boneyard
>sitting in rusted out mig and hind cockpits making airplane noises with our mouths and drunkenly shouting incoherent vagueley slavic sounding things
>lights in tarpaper shack turn on
>fat old guy with a stick shouting in romanian chases us off
>go back to hooches and pass out

All in all I think if you ARENT plastered off of cheap slavic hooch when you visit an abandoned soviet boneyard you are doing something wrong.

>>319699630
>30 years ago
>soviet aircraft fill the skies of eastern europe, watching and waiting for the enemy
>now-ish
>soviet aircraft fill storage yards in eastern europe, providing entertainment for drunk marines

Reminds me of the Titan that awoke centuries later to find itself turned into a makeshift playground.

>>31970190
meant for >>31969960
>fuck mobile

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>>31950481
>>31950481
>>31950486
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>>31952962
>>31959139
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>>31959965

fun fact:
all those "aircrafts" still count as part of the active assets under MURRICA army rosters and is part of the numbers that the diplomats used to threaten other countries with that "they can deploy any time AT WILL"

oh ok, I am sure something liek this can be deploy AT WILL ANYTIME >>31950486 or this >>31950481

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>>31970369

>>31970369
Those aren't dead anon, that's Russia's tank fleet.

I really want to buy some patrol boat now. I could set that thing up with some on board bio diesel production facility.

>>31970309

u r dum

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Do you hear it? The sound of feels on the horizon.

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This one makes me feel the most, tbqh

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>>31970641

>>31970576
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>>31970679
Made me tear up desu

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>>31970717
Ride isnt over yet, anon. A good cry is good, every once in a while.

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>>31970794

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>>31970798

>>31970309
>lightning induced fire
You can't fool me Schlomo. I see what you did there...

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>>31970798
>>31970794
>>31970576
>>31970583

I'm crying my heart out

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>>31970869
>veteran finds his tank, collapses due to feels.

>>31968628
>Before /k/ the shitposting was tacking guns onto shit and the memes were dead gooks.
whoa that's deep

>>31970369
>the order to fire is given one day
>each and every cannon sends a shell to different world capitals
russia stronk

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>>31969023

>>31970390
sad to see a dead turtle
>>31970400
is all that pitting from machine fire?

>>31970576
I live 10 minutes from a few rusted Shermans. Too bad they have graffiti all over since they are in a recreational beach.

>>31960313
>Immediately after the crash an elderly couple trying to cross the street to the crash site were struck by a vehicle, killing the wife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPsOuXImL0


it's so sad......

Politics are dumb.Teams of engineers spend years design marvels of technology, and we just throw them out.

>>31958112
>>31958122
Halfway sunken ships make my skin itchy

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Somebody caption this one.

It almost looks like this Semovente could be restored with a little TLC.

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Italian """armor""" at its finest

>>31950759
>Brokeback Mountain.avi

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>>31970309
I was wondering when your ilk would shit up this thread

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>>31970576
>>31970583
>>31970620
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>>31970820

>>31968578
Wikipedia says otherwise. Says that the US though about using it at Bikini Atoll, but ended up leaving it out in the rain with the Smithsonian for sometime before someone had the sense to disassemble the thing and leave it in storage until they decided to celebrate the great pacific cookout of 1945 by cleaning it up and showing the thing off. Then libtards/traitors/microdicked nips threw a fit and threw shit at it because "MUH WAR CRIMES, MUH PACIFIC HOLOCAUST DENIAL"
The thing seems like it wasn't modded postwar.

>>31970369
This is in an abandoned tank factory in Ukraine. I hear security isn't very good, so I'm pretty amazed a /K/ommando hasn't snagged a few and repaired one.

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>>31970576
I think you missed a few

>>31970641
I work with a PBY of this type at a local air museum, and the thing is beautiful. It's sad to see a plane like this is this shape.
Fun fact: PBY's should never be landed in open water. The rivets tend to be ripped apart by the larger waves.

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>>31955187
Jesus Christ what the FUCK are you doing!?

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>>31975983

>>31976026
Problem?

Guys this thread is making me sad

>>31976046
It's SADurday

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>>31970869
>>31970883

>>31970523
>"Psst, hey, hey look at that."
>"Shut the fuck up I'm trying to sleep."

>>31970820
>The sand is too hot
>My treads hurt
>I wish I was back home with commander

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>>31975932
>/K/ommando [sic]

I think you mean totally-not-Russian-military mercenaries.

>>31960040
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

>>31950481
Oh God this thread reminded me of one of the most soul crushing things I ever saw in my childhood.

if you haven't seen this video before......hold on to your feels cus it's gonna get rough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4YBwjQTds

These pictures of old machines with green text are cringy as fuck. These are not people, they're just machines. Trying to give machines emotions is stupid as fuck.

>>31968539
I think we paid them to do it.

>>31964401
this kills the White Swan

>>31976835
This, US told ukies they'd give them money/ forger about the debt if they'd destroy bombers russians left.

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Sad thread. Have some good feels.
https://www.damninteresting.com/exhuming-the-glacier-girl/
The guns were still loaded, and they worked well enough.

>>31977486
Arent they restoring them to flying condition?

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>>31977486
She was properly restored

>"we found the b-29 Kee Bird in greenland, guys!"
>lets get it up and running
>nigger-rig an external fuel tank to get it to run and fly
>the fuel tank fails
>incinerates the entire fucking plane in the process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpR2S_gu5I8

>>31977593
It was an APU in the tail

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>>31970498
Holy moly that's like digging up a dinosaur

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>>31970309
>a broke-in-half B-25 Mitchell is part of the modern day USAF Reserves

Just unbelievable-tier shitposting, squidward.
Simply masterful.

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all those feels

>>31972735
You do realise how old that image is right?

>>31977593
Honestly fuck those guys, fuck them straight up their stupid fucking arseholes.

>>31961938
Just a bad neighborhood.

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>>31977593

>>31977674
APU is a fancy way of saying Harbor Freight Gasoline generator.

>>31970820
>>31970798
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>>31970576
This shit is fucking retarded.

They're hunks of fucking metal, stop fucking crying.

>>31950529
To be fair, hes not the president yet

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>>31950481

If you want feels and tanks, go read the Bolo novels.

>>31959988
contrary to popular belief the supper guppy is still used

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>>31960002
They actually repaired that one
nice try tho

These images say enough without the text honestly..

>>31968578
Obama wrote an executive order officially renaming it the Enola Homosexual.

>>31958122
>>31958112
Cut up for scrap to make stopsigns.

>>31980884
BELIEVE THE WORD

I WILL UNLOCK MY DOOR

AND PASS THE CEMETARY GATES

>>31958112

>free bofors

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>>31976002
>Sherman
>Protect from anything.

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>>31983463

>>31980795

Welcome to /k/,

Now git out.

>>31970869
Sometimes your mount is as much a part of the team as your crew. I would flip a shit seeing my old ride turn up a decade later and it sure didn't experience anything like what this guy's tank saw.

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>>31983928
Forgot pic. Stupid mobile

>>31972685
I know right? while there is kind of a cool sight to see a ship half out of the water at a weird angle, I don't want to be within 200 meters of it. When the ship is actively sinking, sure, but something about a rusted hulk sitting halfway down in the water (or a rusted ship sinking as a reef), just makes me shiver.

>>31983615
You could, you know, enjoy the aesthetic of derelict metal WITHOUT the cheesy sayings on it.