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The Burned-out Carcass of F-4 Phantom XV411 at Manston
(Image: Rene Verjans – website) It’s safe to say that the post-retirement prospects of decommissioned RAF fast jets and other aircraft are generally poor. A small number will be maintained in varying...
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Abandoned Explosives Factory from World War Two Hidden in Subterranean Caverns
(Image: AndreasS – website) Though Sweden was able to maintain an official policy of neutrality during World War Two, the need for munitions became quickly apparent as fighting swept the continent. To...
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Destroyed Targets Rusting Away on a Military Artillery Range
(Image: AndreasS – website) Photographed on an undisclosed European artillery range, this abandoned tank is in significantly worse condition than some of the decommissioned fighting vehicle graveyards...
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Historic Research Aircraft in the NASA Dryden Boneyard
(Image: Mark Forest; F-16XL in the NASA Dryden boneyard) On the north side of Edwards Air Force Base in California, immediately north-west of the world’s largest compass rose, lies a small aircraft...
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13 F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighters Shelter from Hurricane Hermine
(Image: NASA) At an eye-watering $138 million a piece, losing a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, the US Air Force’s fifth-generation air superiority fighter, is a costly affair for the military (and sadly...
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Wrecked Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Recovered from the Arabian Sea
(Image: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Arthurgwain L. Marquez / U.S. Navy) These impressive photographs show the wreckage of a Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet being salvaged around two months...
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Lady of the Lake: The Sunken B-29 Superfortress of Eielson AFB
(Image: Staff Sgt Joshua Strang/USAF; WB-29 ‘Lady of the Lake’) Located 26 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Eielson Air Force Base is home to the agile F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 354th Fighter Wing and...
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UB-122: The Medway’s German U-Boat Wreck
(Image: Keith Burton) On the gloomy tidal mudflats of coastal Kent, the rusting hulk of a German U-boat lies where it ran aground almost a century ago. The abandoned submarine, known as SM UB-122, was...
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Unidentified Tornado GR4 Fuselage Loaded on C-17 Globemaster
(Image: Cpl Dave Blackburn RAF; Tornado GR4 fuselage loaded onto C-17) This photograph, taken by Royal Air Force Cpl Dave Blackburn, shows the empty fuselage of a Panavia Tornado GR4 strike jet being...
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10 Abandoned Wartime Structures Built for the Defence of Britain
The late 1930s and early 1940s saw an unprecedented level of construction in Britain. Across the land, pillboxes sprung up, defensive lines were dug, concrete bunkers and gun emplacements emerged and...
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Abandoned Hobbies: Unwanted Model Paints for Military Miniatures
(Image: Jonathan Haeber – website) Amid the crumbling ruins of an abandoned toy store (presumably in the USA), urban explorers found shelves full of forgotten enamel hobby paints in a scene that would...
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La Casse Mirage: Where Hundreds of French Warplanes are Scrapped
(All images by Martin Briquet Photography) Urbex photographer Martin Briquet, who several months ago uncovered a vast graveyard of decommissioned Italian Army tanks and armoured personnel carriers,...
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U-118: The Wrecked German U-boat that Washed up on Hastings Beach
(Image: Navy Photos; wrecked German U-boat U-118 on Hastings beach) The Battle of Hastings (1066), in which the Norman duke William the Conqueror defeated Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, was a...
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Scrapped? The Commemorative Tail Fin of Tornado ZD788
(Image: Peter; 40th anniversary tail fin of Tornado ZD788) During the summer we featured the redundant carcass of Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA600 following RTP at RAF Leeming, in Yorkshire. The popular 41...
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Explore Dartmoor’s Obscure Rowtor Target Railway
(Image: Tim Symons; Rowtor Target Railway) Dartmoor, the wild south Devon upland which is said to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, is home to many abandoned...
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SM UB-86 & Another Wrecked German U-Boat off Falmouth Coast
(Image: National Archives; SM UB-86 and another wrecked German U-boat) It seems that U-118 and UB-122 weren’t the only abandoned German U-boats to wash up on British shores, though only the hulking...
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The Mangled Remains of an F-16B (78-0097) at Eglin AFB, Florida
(All images by Samuel King Jr/USAF; wrecked F-16B 78-0097) Despite the impending arrival of its stealthy fifth generation replacement, the F-35 Lightning II, the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon...
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Dumped Westland Whirlwind (XD165) Wreck at Caernarfon Airport
(Image: INNES; Westland Whirlwind XD165 wreck) Resting unceremoniously on its port side on the fire dump at the former RAF Llandwrog, now Caernarfon Airport, lies the mortal remains of Westland...
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Boží Dar: The Mysterious History of an Abandoned Soviet Ghost Town
(Image: phshatiy; the abandoned Soviet ghost town of Boží Dar) Less than 30 miles northeast of Prague, amid what’s been described as one of the fastest growing suburban areas in the Czech Republic,...
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The Corroding Hulk of Sea Harrier ZD581
(Image: Luke Joyce/website; Corroding Sea Harrier ZD581) There’s an eerie dystopian atmosphere to this photograph by Luke Joyce, which perfectly captures an abandoned Sea Harrier FA2 aircraft in its...
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