10 powerful tank cemeteries and abandoned places battles
December 22, 2014

Otterburn ranges, the north of England

In Otterburn in the North of England for about 23 percent of the Northumberland National Park is owned by the military and used as training grounds. This is also the final resting place of a number of tanks that are currently being used for training of personnel.


Some tanks look almost intact, with tracks and buildings, bearings, which only begins to cover the rust. Others are very badly damaged.


Cemetery tanks in Kabul, Afghanistan


When the Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989, after ten years of struggle, a lot of equipment left abandoned in Afghanistan, where there was no real winner. Today, dozens of rusting tanks, built in the 1960s and 1970s, stand near Kabul - and some of them find a new life.



Some abandoned tanks, which still run, go to the repair and then used by government forces against the Taliban.


Abandoned tanks at Fort Knox, Kentucky


For decades, Fort Knox was famous not only as a store of gold, but also as a powerful military base, the US military training school. While military training center was moved here in 2010, in the Fort Knox left a lot of abandoned tanks, which were used as targets.





Abandoned tanks on the plain of Jars (Plain of-Dzhars), Laos


This is a fairly non-traditional place for the accumulation tanks. There are only a few Russian tanks that were thrown.



Plain of-Dzhars - this is one of the great unsolved mysteries. Virtually all of this field in Laos covered giant stone jars. Some relatively small, some of them may easily hide an adult inside, and no one knows who built them. There are many theories about the origin of the stone jars, including these: they are used to make wine for burials or rainwater harvesting.



Plain of-Dzhars - was the site of large-scale military operations throughout the war in Vietnam. US forces dropped more than 2 million. Tons of bombs on the area of ​​these fields. Today it is considered that there are more than 80 million unexploded ordnance among the fields in which miraculously survived stone pitchers.

Tank Stomp in Bermondsey.



This is a Russian T-34 tank, which is not entirely abandoned.

10 могучих танковых кладбищ и заброшенных мест битв

The tank is located in Prague, where he was a monument. Then, in 1995, it was imported to England to be used in the creation remake of Richard III, and after the film, he went on sale. He was bought by a developer, who said it was a gift for his 7-year-old son.


Since then, the tank repainted several times and now flaunts a pink color. It is included in the touristic Atlases and used as a guide by taxi drivers.

Cemetery tanks after the Eritrean War of Independence.


Almost 30 years of war for independence lasted African country of Eritrea from Ethiopia. These rusty tanks outside the country's capital - the city of Asmara - a reminder of the sacrifices for the liberation of an entire people.




Abandoned tanks on Flamenco Beach, Puerto Rico


At the turn of the 20th century, the United States began to use the islands off the coast of its territory for military exercises and practice skills bombing. By 2005, the island was named Vikues as one of the worst hazardous waste sites. In the 1970s, the US Navy offered to evict all the residents of the island. Vikues and the neighboring island of Culebra.



However, the decision of the United States met with massive protests from local residents. The protests quickly turned into riots and unrest.


Eventually ruling was overturned, and in 1974, President Nixon ordered the Navy to remove his training equipment from the island. Today, there are two tanks, which are still standing on the beach of the island.

Army tanks in the Sierra Nevada



In the valleys of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is a whole army tanks. Tanks M-1 Abrams lined up in the desert of the American West. There are more than 2000. Many of them are still in almost perfect condition, ready to go into battle, where they are needed.


10 могучих танковых кладбищ и заброшенных мест битв

Tanks after the wreck of the ship "Heritage of the Empire."


"The legacy of Empire" was a whaler, which was reS E N S O Rmissioned during World War II as a transport vessel. September 8, 1944, it was sent from New York to Liverpool, and then in Glasgow. During its path the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Donegal, Ireland. The ship and its cargo - a dozen tanks Sherman, went to the bottom of the ocean.




Soviet tanks cemetery in a tank factory in Kharkov, Ukraine



About 30 km from the Russian border is a giant apocalyptic graveyard of tanks. Tanks at one time have been gathered from all over the Soviet Union, here, at the Kharkov plant Malyshev, then go to repairs or renovations.



For major repairs to the plant arrived about 60 tanks each month. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, literally hundreds and hundreds of tanks were abandoned in the yard and no one needs. Only recently in connection with military operations in eastern Ukraine they became popular and maintenance crews from the pile of scrap metal restore those tanks. Which can still be restored.


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