The number of aircraft stored there and the precision in the way they are parked is impressive. Another important fact is that they are all capable of being returned to service if the need ever arises.
AMARG is a controlled-access site, and is off-limits to anyone not employed there without the proper clearance. The only access for non-cleared individuals is via a bus tour which is conducted by the nearby Pima Air & Space Museum . Bus tours are Monday through Friday only. Both the museum and the Bone Yard are very popular attractions in the Arizona desert.
2. Ship Graveyard , Mauritania
The city of Nouadhibouis the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as the country's Commercial center. It is famous for being the location of one of the largest ship graveyard in the world. Hundreds of rusting ships can be seen all around, in the water and on beaches.
One of the most commonly read explanation for that situation is that Mauritanian harbor officers were taking bribes and allowing ships to be discarded in the harbor and around the bay. This phenomenon started in the 80's after the nationalization of the Mauritanian fishing industry, numerous uneconomical ships were simply abandoned there.
The city of Nouadhibou is one of the poorest locations in the world. Right over these phantom beaches there are people living inside the huge merchant boats
One of the
major tourist attractions of southwestern Bolivia is an antique train cemetery.
It is located 3 km (1.9 MI)
outside Uyuni and is connected to it by the old train tracks. The town served in
the past as a
distribution hub for the trains carrying minerals on their way to the Pacific
Ocean ports.
The train
lines were built by British engineers who arrived near the end of the 19th
century and formed a sizable
community in Uyuni. The rail construction started in 1888 and ended in
1892.
The trains
were mostly used by the mining companies. In the 1940s, the mining industry
collapsed, partly due to the
mineral depletion. Many trains were abandoned thereby producing the train
cemetery. There are
talks to build a museum out of the
cemetery.
Littered
with at least 18 gutted Tupolev Tu-22M Backfires of the 444th Heavy Bomber
Regiment, Vozdvizhenka air
base resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape. Entering this barren place, located
near Ussuriysk in
the Primorsky Krai region of Far East Russia, 60 miles (95 km) north of
Vladivostok and 40
miles (65 km) from the Chinese border, is like taking a step back in
time.
The 444th
Regiment was disbanded in 2009, with some aircraft transferred to the Belaya Air
Base and others
dismantled (removed engines, equipment, and with holes cut in the
fuselage).
The
aircraft carcasses are awaiting final metal cutting. Currently based at the
airfield is the aviation commandant
of Khurba airbase and the 322 Aircraft Repair
Factory.
Among the
dunes of Tavira island, in Portugal , there’s an impressive anchor graveyard
called the Cemitério das
Âncoras. It was built in remembrence of the glorious tradition of tuna fishing
with large nets fixed with
these anchors, a fishing technique already invented by the
Phoenicians.
Tavira
used to be a place devoted to the tuna fishing. They built up this anchor
graveyard to remember those who
had to quit their occupation when the big fish abandoned the
coasts.
On the
outskirts of Kabul , Afghanistan there’s a massive collection of abandoned
Soviet battle Vehicles left behind
after the failure of a massive eastern bloc military occupation of the
country in
the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The
Soviets left in a hurry and couldn’t be bothered to find a way to get
broken-down tanks back home, so now they
sit, partially stripped and covered in graffiti
Afghanistan
has few recycling facilities, so this cemetery of tanks will likely remain where
it is for many more years
as a reminder of the Russian
invasion.
The area
around Nezametnaya Cove, close to the town of Gadzhiyevo , in Murmansk Oblast on
the Kola Peninsula ,
is a cemetery where is located a lot of old Russian submarines. After serving
their duty
underwater, the submarines were brought to this restricted-access zone in the
1970s and then
forgotten.
Locals
said that some of the old submarines were used for target practice in military
exercises and often sunk, an
employment of the old “out of sight, out of mind” strategy. Others were simply
left in the bay to rust and
rot, floating to the surface like so many whale
carcasses.
Moynaq is
a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan . Home to only a few
thousand residents at most,
Moynoq's population has been declining precipitously since the 1980s due
to the recession of
the Aral Sea .
Once a
bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan 's only port city with tens of
thousands of residents, Moynoq is
now a shadow of its former self, dozens of kilometers from the rapidly
receding shoreline
of the Aral Sea .
For
travelers the main reason to visit Moynaq is to see the ship graveyard, a
collection of rusting hulks that
were once the town’s fishing fleet. It’s an image that perfectly illustrates
the disaster - once
proud vessels beached in a sandy
Desert.
Unfortunately
there aren’t many left, as scrap metal companies made short work of them
before the tourism
authorities forbade it. In one final kick for a local population already downed,
the money didn’t
go to the people who owned the boats; it was divided up between the scrap
companies and
government
officials.
Thousands
of scrapped taxis are abandoned in a yard in the center of Chongqing , China .
Traffic congestion and
pollution have worsened dramatically in Chinese cities because the country's
long-running
economic expansion has allowed increasing numbers of consumers to make
big-ticket
purchases
such as cars, which means many no longer have to rely on taxis or public
transportation.
Decommissioned
old red booths are systematically replaced by new modern booths, and
deposited in one
site near this English village.
7 comments:
I wonder what there going to bury here in Salisbury after the last business closes.
All the from heres.
Google satellite coordinates:
32.159556,-110.848496
We need to reactivate a bunch of the BUFF's and re-implement Chrome-Dome...based on what Putin is doing.
Essentially what Hitler did in Poland and what Hussein did in Kuwait.
Where are Reagan and Tibbetts when you need them?!
yeah, yeah, 711 lets go get to war over an area that most of you never even heard of until now, that harbors a population that loves Putin, and that forms one of the major outpost for the Russian navy. Yeah, lets go.
all those beautiful tanks just sitting there and rotting away....sad-sad-sad!
What will the equipment graveyard look like when we leave Afghanistan I wonder.We cannot possibly get all of it out by the deadline.
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