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F-4J Phantom (158379) Crash Site in California
(Image: Joe Idoni; wreckage of F-4 Phantom 158379) Out on the remote Coso Range mountains of California, east of the Sierra Nevada, lies the wreckage of two US military warplanes that plunged to earth...
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Scrapped: Apache AH1 Helicopter Gunship ZJ177
(Image: wiltshirespotter; Apache AH1 ZJ177 in storage at RAF Shawbury, 2004) Joint Force Harrier may have been put out to (arid) pasture, but the UK military nevertheless retains a formidable...
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Abandoned Combat Vehicles on the “Elephant Beach”
(All images by Martin Briquet Photography) Amid the sands of a remote beach somewhere in western Europe, a neglected group of tanks and abandoned infantry fighting vehicles rest, their decaying hulls...
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WW2: Oban Minefield Control Tower, Scotland
(Image: TCCI1; Oban Minefield Control Tower) If you were a German U-boat commander during World War Two, there’s one place around Britain’s shores you absolutely would not have wanted to end up. At...
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Mitsubishi A6M Zero Wreck at Kieta Memorial Park
(Image: ww2gallery; “crashed” Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter) This photograph, showing what appears to be a crashed Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter from World War Two, has done the rounds of the internet...
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RAF Longley Lane SOC Communications Bunker
(Image: Andy Hebden; the former RAF Longley Lane SOC Communications Bunker) Ask most people, and they’d probably tell you that Britain’s landscape is one of the most-peaceful on the planet. In one...
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The Abandoned Grain Tower Gun Battery, Kent
(Image: Simon D. Gardner; Kent’s abandoned Grain tower gun battery) Don’t let the name fool you. Grain tower in Kent has nothing to do with agriculture, and everything to do with destroying enemy...
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Dismantled Eurofighter Typhoon ZJ922 Departing Coningsby by Road
(Image: Kevin Mape; dismantled Eurofighter Typhoon ZJ922) In October 2016, the same month that a 9-year-old Typhoon T3 was officially reduced to produce (RTP) at RAF Coningsby, another Eurofighter was...
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The Abandoned Cliff Complex of St Margaret’s Bay, Kent
(Image: Disco-Dan; the abandoned cliff complex of St Margaret’s Bay) If you were looking for a place to land an invasion force on the coastline of southern England, St Margaret’s Bay in Kent would...
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The Slow Decay of Sweden’s 17th Century Warship Vasa
(Image: JavierKohen; grand warship wreck in the Vasa Museum) The Vasa is the world’s only completely preserved 17th century warship. Salvaged in 1961, her hulk sits in a museum in Stockholm, where...
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The Defunct Radar Dishes of “Ice Station Zebra”
(Image: Bas van der Poel – Maestro Photography; the abandoned “Ice Station Zebra”) Known to the urban exploration community as Ice Station Zebra, this cluster of defunct radar dishes forms part of an...
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Rare Glimpse of Vulcan XH539 on the Waddington Fire Dump (1984)
(Image: Robin Povey; the hulk of Vulcan XH539 behind XL426) Photographs of Avro Vulcan B2 XH539 are quite rare online. But pictures of the mighty V-bomber in her final role – as a crash-rescue...
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“Lost” Alpha Jet Fuselage (ex-Belgian Air Component)
(Image: Kristof Ven/Instagram/Facebook; the “Lost” Alpha Jet) There isn’t much left of this decommissioned Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet. It’s little more than an empty fuselage inside a deserted...
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Diefenbunkers: Inside Canada’s Emergency Government Headquarters
(Image: Z22; Canada’s Emergency Government Headquarters) At the height of the Cold War, when Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker authorised the construction of more than 50 emergency bunkers...
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Abandoned Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (aka The Polygon)
(Image: Wikimedia; explosion at Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan) By the end of World War Two, the Soviet Union was pushing its scientists to get the country’s nuclear weapons programme up to...
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Umm Al Melh Border Guards Airport: Secret US Drone Base?
(Image: Bing Maps; Umm Al Melh Border Guards Airport) There are few things more controversial in the modern military than the use of drones to carry out precision attacks. And according to Wired.com,...
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Metro-2: Is Moscow Home to a Secret Underground Railway?
(Image: metro.ru; map supposedly showing the rumoured Metro-2 in Moscow) Rumour has it that there’s a top secret underground railway hidden under the streets of Moscow. Dubbed Metro-2, the clandestine...
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Abandoned Flogger at Khodynka, Moscow
(Image: Alan Wilson; abandoned Flogger at Khodynka, Moscow) They might have been low-tech compared to their western counterparts (at least until a new generation of dogfighters came to the fore,...
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HM-40 B Battery: An Derelict Nike Hercules Missile Base in Florida
(Image: Brett Levin; derelict radar towers of HM-40 B Battery Nike Hercules missile base) It wasn’t too long ago that the world – led by its nuclear superpowers – was on the brink of total war. The...
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Russia’s Central Air Force Museum: Stunning Birds-Eye Photographs of Monino...
(All images by Andrey Khachatryan – Livejournal/website; Central Air Force Museum) If you’re a fan of Russian aircraft developed back in the days of the Soviet Union, the Central Air Force Museum at...
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