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armyjunk2
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:25 am Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
I think these are pretty much old pics, i believe i posted them a year or so ago in here, I have just posted 14 more of these pics over here at the CDSG site, feel free to copy but please credit the Patton Museum. These are part of a collection of 155 pics taken during the recovery of the FT-17's here is the link to them tinyurl.com/ybassel

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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:30 am Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
I love the way you guys assume there is only one scrapyard in Afghanistan. Good job you don't know about the one with the Disston & T-26's in it... _________________ TTFN Jim If your not a member of JED then your not serious about anything military.. ********************* www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment *********************

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:56 am Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
Let´s just hope the Disston and T26's are not in this one . . . www.cnn.com/video/?/vi...veyard.cnn . . . as the Chinese are coming in to clear all the scrap tanks present there. H.

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
A lot of the Kabul one has already gone. I know of one company that bought 40 T55s and are converting them to fortifications for an unidentified far east country. _________________ TTFN Jim If your not a member of JED then your not serious about anything military.. ********************* www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment *********************

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
Hanno nice video, I wonder if the US is leaving the same scrap metal in Afghanistan when we leave?? or do we haul it all back to the states?

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:51 pm
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I know of one case where the Netherlands Army retrieved a damaged wheeled recovery vehicle from Afghanistan. The transport back to The Netherlands cost more than a new one! In such a case it would be better to leave military vehicles there and donate, sell or scrap them, unless they are of "strategic value".

Maybe we will do the same as we did in Indonesia. After we finally conceded to their quest for independence, we gave them all the weaponry we had used to fight them with. Of course this was all done in good spirit, as Indonesia had to have equipment for a proper army of their own, didn't they?

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
we left a lot in Vietnam, but of course we left kind of fast.............

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:54 pm Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
- Hanno_Spoelstra we gave them all the weaponry that is not completely true The Marine Brigade conquered an Japanese tank that the Indonesian army was using and it ended up at the Army Museum in Delft, The Netherlands So we did not give them all the weaponry If I'm getting annoying, let me know Michel _________________ I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You

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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:15 pm
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- Michel_Krauss

the 2 Daimler Scout Cars??

These are rather "Armored Carriers, Wheeled, Indian Pattern, Mk IV"

Most probably the 2 last examples still surviving...

Didn't see tham at first..

Thanks Jim !!

P-O

well, thanks to "Sander D", I have found 2 more Armored Carriers, Wheeled, Indian Pattern in the Ahmednagar museum in India :

http://picasaweb.google.com/chaitanya.vedak/20090315PuneNagarOneDayTrip#5313669937731499522

http://picasaweb.google.com/chaitanya.vedak/20090315PuneNagarOneDayTrip#5313669910762826914

really glad to see them still existing !!

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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
Speaking of scrap piles in Indonesia, everyone may have already seen these: www.project-x.org.uk/a...index.html

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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
There is an picture of WW2 German MG34 on it www.project-x.org.uk/a...mp017.html I know some guy's who would kill to get one Even in this bad condition Michel _________________ I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You

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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:08 am Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
- Dennis_Smith Speaking of scrap piles in Indonesia, everyone may have already seen these: www.project-x.org.uk/a...index.html The "home" link on that site leads to some interesting places.... ...like an Abbott register: www.project-x.org.uk/a...ister.html SA-80 stuff.... www.project-x.org.uk/sa80.html From there, some of the links get kind of...unusual.

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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 7:43 am Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
Is this photo showing the FT-17 which is now in France or is this a new FT-17 ? www.modelforum.cz/view...start=1440

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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
I think that it is Saumur's one. P-O _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:59 am Post subject: Re: interesting afghan scrap heap...
Have anyone a photo of the Musée des Blindés FT-17 showing it in Afganistan?

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