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Dismembered Phantom XV499 Stored at Hixon Prior to Scrapping
(Image: Jon Wickenden; Phantom XV499 effectively stored at Hixon before scrapping) Like most McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms formerly in RAF service, the story of XV499 didn’t have an especially happy...
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ZH588 & ZH590: Grounded Eurofighter Typhoon Fighter Jets Up Close
(Image: Alan Wilson; Eurofighter Typhoon development aircraft DA4 ZH590 at the Imperial War Museum) If you want to get up close and personal with an active RAF Eurofighter Typhoon, chances are you’re...
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Derelict Tornado GR1 Carcasses (ZA322, ZA361 & ZA375) on Marham Dump
(Image: Andy Purbrick; derelict Tornado airframes ZA322 (left) and ZA375) Until fairly recently, it was normal for a visit to an RAF airfield to include a pilgrimage along the fence line to a...
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JP098: Non-Flying Eurofighter Typhoon Test Rig Fuselage at St Athan
(Image: Richard E. Flagg/UK Airfields; Eurofighter Typhoon test rig JP098) You won’t find many seemingly redundant Eurofighter Typhoon fuselages in outside storage. Even the defunct wreck of 11...
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Baikal: Abandoned Buran-Class Spacecraft OK-2K1 on the Banks of the Moscow Canal
(Image: Ilya Varlamov/28-300 (Livejournal); abandoned Buran-class orbiter Baikal in Moscow) Our recent article “10 Abandoned Space Shuttles, Orbiter Test Vehicles & Engineering Mockups”...
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10 Abandoned Army Barracks & Military Training Camps of the World
(Image: Miles Winterburn; an abandoned army base and training camp in the UK) One of the many notable aspects of the 20th century was the proliferation of army bases across the Europe, the United...
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Multi-Role Combat Aircraft: Panavia Tornado Prototypes & Pre-Production...
(Image: Shaun Connor; Panavia Tornado prototype XX947 (P.03) getting airborne with a full weapons load) After the controversial cancellation of the mighty TSR-2 in the 1960s, and the shelving of a...
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Decaying Military Wrecks Abandoned after the Soviet–Afghan War
(Image: Ilya Varlamov/28-300 (Livejournal; rusting hulks of Soviet armoured personnel carriers) For a brutal and bloody decade from 1979 to 1989, the Soviet–Afghan War raged in the tribal regions of...
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Gulf Wars: 8 Abandoned Military Air Bases of Iraq
(Image: Pedmore; revisiting the abandoned airfields of Iraq) For quarter of a century under the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq became a hotbed of military activity that saw the establishing of...
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Grounded UK Harrier Fleet While in Storage at RAF Cottesmore
(Image: via fourfax.co.uk; grounded Harrier jets at RAF Cottesmore in June 2011) In March 2011, amid increasingly austere budget cuts, the Royal Air Force grounded the last of its 143 British...
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Dismantled Folland Gnat XR954 Before Leaving Bournemouth
(Image: Allen Watkin; Folland Gnat T1 XR954 pictured at Bournemouth in 2007) In a grassy enclosure on the south side of Dorset’s Bournemouth Airport, on England’s south coast, is a small aviation...
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Sea Shadow: The Menacing Form of Lockheed’s Abandoned Stealth Ship
(Image: Amy Heiden Photography; withdrawn stealth ship Sea Shadow mothballed at Suisun Bay, California) With the success of the top secret Have Blue stealth technology demonstrator programme, which...
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GR4 Scrapped: Mortal Remains of Panavia Tornado ZD844
(Image: Jonathan Irwin Photography; the gutted hulk of Tornado ZD844 in a scrap yard prior to recycling) Over the past year or so Urban Ghosts has documented the slow demise of the Panavia Tornado...
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10 Abandoned Airfields & Bases of RAF Coastal Command
(Image: Hector Patrick; abandoned Coastal Command maintenance jetty, RAF Castle Archdale) When the Fleet Air Arm was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1937, Coastal Command became the RAF’s sole...
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Abandoned Cold War Giant: Duga-3 Radar Looms Over Chernobyl’s Radioactive...
(Image: Erik Meijerink; abandoned Duga-3 radar in the radioactive forests of northern Ukraine) It’s one of the most iconic technological marvels of the Cold War-era Soviet Union to still grace the...
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Tornado ZA367 Undergoes Repairs at RAF Gibraltar in 2012
(© DM Parody (www.dotcom.gi/photos; Panavia Tornado ZA367 at RAF Gibraltar) Tucked away in the back of a hangar at RAF Gibraltar, Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA367 was photographed undergoing repairs...
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Remember Vulcan XJ782 on the Finningley Gate?
(Image: Glenn Reay; old Finningley gate guard Vulcan XJ782) Like XH563 at Scampton, the decommissioned Avro Vulcan B2 XJ782 spent several years as the gate guardian at RAF Finningley in South...
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Westland Wessex XT672: Decommissioned RAF Helicopter at Beacon Barracks
(Image: Phil Kemp; Westland Wessex XT672 preserved at MOD Stafford) This old Westland Wessex helicopter, displayed outside the Tactical Supply Wing at MOD Stafford, a former non-flying RAF base also...
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Operation Shader: Tornado GR4s Take on Fuel from a Voyager KC2 Tanker
(Image: Staff Sgt. Perry Aston; Tornado GR4s refuel during Operation Shader) This stunning photograph, which depicts two Panavia Tornado GR4 strike jets of the Royal Air Force taking on fuel from an...
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Scrapped: Panavia Tornado GR1s ZA409 & ZA474
(Image: Martin Henderson; Tornado GR1 ZA409 in September 1988) Urban Ghosts is sorry to report that two grounded Panavia Tornado GR1 airframes, which were previously understood to be in storage at RAF...
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