Abandoned Air Base filled with Soviet Tanks and other Military Equipment

[@jwhoogervorst8598]

There are still plenty of abandoned places, great that you still know how to find them, Bob, nice to see.

[@Mart77]

These ZIL trucks seem to be in fairly decent shape. I guess a good mechanic would get these running&driving in a couple of hours

[@rainmaker3987]

because they made them to be military and reliable unlike todays vehicles

[@imajeenyus42]

We need Marty from NZ!

[@johnwagenhauser9835]

Yip the Zil trucks I've seen on utube seem simple and reliable

[@ЖеняАрютов-ъ3э]

You don’t understand anything about mechanics, otherwise you would have immediately noticed that the radiators were removed from them. All equipment is partially dismantled and subject to looting; launching in field conditions is not possible.

[@TehRealVR]

Those Soviet 6x6 trucks are a great find!

[@Jimmy-ye3wg]

Very little would be required to start them!

[@egiees]

It’s mind boggling that most of that outdated equipment is currently taking part in a Huge war….

[@TomMillard-d8h]

Sadly it will get worse before it's over !! Ukrainian's are fierce fighters

[@EternallyThankful-os6pz]

I wish you'd have shown more of the inside of that tank... especially since the video was "cut short" by something.... the mechanicals of war machines are ALWAYS cool to see inside of - since we usually only ever get to see the outsides.

[@iwanta32]

T-62. "Only cool when it's deactivated". Epic

[@grahampalmer9337]

A T-62! That's essential equipment in Ukraine currently. Didn't know the Russian Federation had taken to dispersing their equipment to save it from drones & missiles. Sneaky keeping it in a NATO country though. 😒

[@iwanta32]

@grahampalmer9337 its been abandoned LONG ago. Hiding an old tank? From drones? Onthe other side of the continent? I hope your joking

[@grahampalmer9337]

It is quite possible that the 'abandoned airbase/facility' is kept looking that way for a reason. Those large empty buildings/hangers are exceptionally clean for somewhere not used. 😒 I'm an former (civilian) aerospace engineer. Back in the late 80's & early 90's 'we' maintained a handful of interceptor aircraft kept in dilapidated hangers on a former airbase, now training facility, just north of London & close to both Chequers & a NATO Command complex. The airfield, outwardly, was used by a few private light aircraft & for training Air Cadets - with an RAF Medical Training facility the other end of the site. The tatty hangers were off limits to all but RAF Regiment personnel & were regularly patrolled. Unless you gained access you wouldn't know there were State-of-the-Art combat aircraft kept there for 'emergencies'. 😐

[@Jimmy-ye3wg]

A few basics like a can of ether, fresh oil, 5 gallons of diesel, a battery or compressor, and most of that old Russian/ Soviet gear would actually start!!! Russian steel apparently contained more nickel, giving excellent corrosion resistance, as seen here on 50/60 year old equipment.

[@nvelsen1975]

Lol, that's BS and fairytales. Kindly refrain from spreading "Russia stronk" nonsense. It's perverse. It's all about paint, and armies even up until recently used pretty toxic paints that contain chrome-6 and CARC (chemical agent resistant coating). The Russian stuff was rare, difficult to obtain and thus very very well taken care of. Actual Russian quality? Well, look at the Russian invading army today: Their yards are abandoned at 20-40% full because what remains there is simply gone after 20 years of storage. Meanwhile Ukraine is racing around Abrams tanks manefactured in 1980-1982 and stored for 20 years as well.

[@causewaykayak]

2:22 Is that a wooden picnic table ??

[@javierrosa2066]

well also in war u have to eat proper hahahaha

[@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath]

It is ! :P

[@christopherchilders1049]

I love old abandoned military bases or even old homes!

[@c.g.262]

That stuff needs to be donated to a museum.

[@brendakrieger7000]

Cool explore! Thanks for sharing!

[@robertbutcher4201]

Cut short that sucks, that place was huge with so much more to see.

[@robertwilkinson8421]

Really Cool Video. Thanks for sharing and keep up the Good Work!

[@geordieurbex2200]

They have loads of old French planes, Russian planes and helicopter, old tanks and anti air craft vehicles at raf spadeadam in England on the abandoned airfield

[@SMYL1947]

Very nice spot and again very good Video. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@NickPlatten-p5x]

Another interesting upload. Thanks Bob, I always love watching

[@christopherchilders1049]

It’s also hard for me to believe possibly at the moment some of those trucks were being made. I was doing a bomb drill in my school getting under a desk that somehow I was going to save me from a nuclear bomb.

[@robertanderson1272]

Duck and cover

[@garyjones2582]

I wish this video could have been longer... Cool stuff...

[@Fran_SG]

Very goool pace!!!

[@mattmushrush5639]

The radar system had me scratching my head, and I almost think it's semi-custom for EW training. The radar has similar latices and truss structure to the SSR portion (secondary surveillance radar antenna) of an AMES TYPE 84 or 85, but more squared. It looks like it wasn't typically designed to be kitted to that azimuth base either. The array and feed horn look NATO for sure. Most size-comparable Russian systems of that era were the P-20, P-30, or P37, but they didn't typically have azimuth control. Those systems look a bit later in era. I believe there were multiple of these EW training locations in Germany and France. Maybe more are abandoned for your exploration? :)

[@Metalstacker]

Nice little explore! Great weather too 😊

[@cheekeongchan6605]

Hi Bob, according to a British Tank Museum short video, the old tank interiors may have radioactive material and asbestos inside. Please take care. Your vlogs are excellent.

[@LucasCarvalho-wp4vx]

*S.T.A.L.K.E.R *sound like in playing in background, dope.

[@donky_slash9394]

Hey Interesting video that Look's Like, the grostenquin Air Base in france. But I could be wrong!

[@ronaldv_tm]

You're right

[@donky_slash9394]

@ronaldv_tm OK then thank you

[@Ravroid]

"Unfortunately, our visit was cut short". Does that imply they were confronted by security and couldn't show the footage?

[@HollywoodMarine0351]

Yup!

[@campandcook3118]

Let's hope so that there is security that prevents theft and vandalism

[@UH60-Arthur]

Park hit closing time, you can see the benches and picnic tables

[@Intrepid_A]

It may be abandoned but it's probably still under the French MOD ownership

[@TehRealVR]

Belated Happy Holidays Bob! Hope New Years eve is a blast for you!

[@supertec2023]

I would take a geiger counter out to make sure things aren't radioactive. That could be a reason they are left abandoned.

[@kevroodenman3283]

I flipped through Janes aircraft’ years ago the designs will always be interesting too see how close the competition was or who made it first is a mystery😅 thanks

[@majikglustik9704]

Happy New Year guys! From Florida.

[@marc5460]

dank voor de video

[@TehRealVR]

Nettle can be nasty. Many have bad reactions to it.

[@sijanser]

the crazy thing is Russia still uses the same material to this day

[@paulshand2847]

Are you sure ? 😅😅

[@wierrieassie9447]

​@paulshand2847 everything russian in this video still gets used, strella is still a good anti-air system, same for the ew system. And the t62 gets used in a artillery role

[@1ns0mn14]

What, metal?

[@sijanser]

@@paulshand2847 just look at some videos online, I don't say they use all of it but alot they still do!

[@paulshand2847]

@@wierrieassie9447 yes they using but everything is modernized

[@paulshand2847]

In my country, the forest is still the way the Soviet soldiers left it, often there are personal belongings, trenches, nature is still marked from the battles that took place there, people don't go there because its high in the mountains where the air is different even wild animals don't go in that area and some people have never come back and we don't tell anyone about that place because nature is still suffering from war and they would completely destroy it everything here because you can find many thing there my grandfather was a hunter he showed me that place

[@lachlanj1228]

Like the exterior styling of the old soviet era trucks

[@hahaha12345678993]

some of those vehicles would make great will it start videos after sitting for xx years

[@PainNoire]

Merci

[@VaraprasadraoMeegada]

Nice 👍🙌

[@rolfagten857]

This is the openingsite from the openingscene from "Tommorow never Dies". 1997.

[@gitt24]

Totally neat

[@Stalker-ns9rs]

Abandoned vehicles need to be restored and exposed in a military museum

[@Electronzap]

Awesome Explore!

[@TattooedTraveler]

Nice one bro 🤙

[@davids8449]

At least they come back regularly to cut the grass 😊

[@sabahtaha1746]

1-sam 6, 2- sam 8, later mt-lb armored personel carriers

[@lindamesa5122]

So good to see the old gang back together! You guys were awesome together!! I always enjoyed ur inter actions with Eelco , he's such a cool friend! Actually I like all ur friends Bob!!

[@devttyUSB0]

Cool stuff!

[@njaneardude]

Our visit was cut short = caught 😂

[@2000jago]

I love the way you pronounce the "o" in "Bob" as "aah".... 🤣 PS = why was your visit "cut short" as you put it?

[@Jimmythefish577]

Because it’s still in the ownership of the French military, it’s their version of RAF Spadeadam, this airfield is used for training.

[@2000jago]

@@Jimmythefish577 I understand all that. They were clearly recording for some time already without issue. Are you suggesting someone came along and stopped them, hence the abrupt end to the video?

[@mikesmith-wk7vy]

that stuff should be in museums, not out there rotting

[@DD-fj2ut]

Want to see inside the Tank!

[@brealistic3542]

I believe the Russian military equipment was captured by the Israeli army and given to the USA to study and train against. The Arabs used this Soviet equipment.

[@АлександрРепин-ш9м]

калосально зил с дизельным двигателем вот это шедевр

[@yellingberry]

hey finding ! good well ! but Air Base from ?

[@xxPROMETHEUSxx1.]

Did yall get shot at? Almost sounded like a bullet hit next to yall at the end when guy was standing on the tank...

[@T1971-w4c]

Should pop over to Afghanistan where America abandoned $85 billion worth of military equipment. That would be a great explore.

[@enricotelefono]

Bravissimi!!!!!

[@АлександрРепин-ш9м]

а где эта база так сохранена отлично

[@noneck3099]

does the guy in the black t-shirt have it on backwards?

[@Grant80]

All this equipment I’m sure adilf in Kiev would love it.

[@favorite_urbex_]

nice Spot 😮😮😮😮🎉

[@onehurtcowboy]

what is the name of the air base? would like to google earth it

[@cedhome7945]

Good Ukrainian mechanics would have that t62 running around in a few days 🤣

[@sekasidavid]

All that scrap is enough to make me a Billionaire here in Uganda 😂😂😂

[@Super-lucky-7777]

Missing Summer

[@Sunsa0]

The question is how they get theese equipments?

[@COC_AIRBORNE]

Please don't take anything or leave a grafitti behindd😢

[@brealistic3542]

The Russian missile launcher is the Sam-6 anti aircraft unit.

[@valeriivalerii1300]

This crappy t-62 is used by Russian Zombie attacks even today

[@tom_123]

Could hold an awesome rave there.

[@VanemVanem-q7z]

Good

[@user-lp2op9uu1w]

Uhm, not sure I would mess with the French military like this. Anyways, cool video!

[@1970DAH]

I wonder where the Soviet equipment was captured.

[@garlicandchilipreppers8533]

Probably not captured anywhere, after the dissolvement of the USSR loads of Russian equipment got left all over Europe, East Germany, Czechoslowakia, Romania, Poland etc., etc..

[@1970DAH]

@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 According to Bob this was in the 1980s before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Also, after the collapse, there was no longer a need to do this type of testing at a secret base in France. The former Warzaw Pact members and the former Soviet republics kept the equipment in their own service. Surely, if West Germany got their hands on stuff from East Germany, they wouldn't immediately ship it off to France. Anyway, it would be really interesting to learn the full history of this place. I thank Bob for showing it to us.

[@1970DAH]

@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 I wrote a long reply yesterday, but it disappeared. Anyway, the idea is this was for Cold War training. So it makes no sense that it was after the Warsaw Pact and USSR broke up.

[@briancathey498]

4:04 the apc in the background here , the russians are actually using them in the ukraine now

[@Musanzefilm9]

😢 what are you doing there😢😢

[@ceevee369]

Anyone knows the name of the place /site ? Wanna Google Maps it

[@emcity6752]

It's really not so hard to find this one. Very well known

[@phillipphil1615]

So... Where is it?

[@emcity6752]

I'm not disclosing that on a video that's not my own. But if you Google it with the information given in this video you will find it pretty quickly

[@sunnnyfactory]

AMX-13 is in warthunder

[@marcolai9782]

💪💪💪bob

[@johnwagenhauser9835]

Thanks guys awesome day out! Find it a terrible waste. That equipment, though , obsolete cost a taxpayer millions only to be abandoned. The military equipment that I've seen in similar conditions generally have very few miles on the clock . Suppose the bright side is that they're a necessary evil that has never been needed, thank goodness!

[@briancathey498]

if it were abandoned nobody would be cutting the grass , thats a big tell/red flag

[@koen-peeters80]

Putin wants his toys back 😂

[@softtech5391]

When zombies will come , people will come here and will try to restored all

[@t000000000MUCH]

The fact Russia still uses this same old crap in this modern day just speaks volume

[@mikedavid7168]

Why is all this metal not recycled

[@marmoli]

Сколько глупых комментариев, про супер советские грузовики, так говорить может только тот кто их не обслуживал и не ездил на них. До войны, этот мусор можно было купить в рф или рб за 1-2 000 долларов, каждая третья машина, не смотря на хваленое "хранение" и мифическую надежность, без капитального ремонта не поедет, вода в поршневой - обычное дело. Мужики покупали и переделывали для охоты, плюс один - проходимость, если нравиться ездить в дождь по полям. А так: ломаются часто, бензин жрет без меры, просто завести двигатель - 0,5 л. 100 км - 50 литров. Эргономики - просто нет, через 200 км - позвоночник высыпеться в сапоги. В общем - конструктор для того кому нравиться возится с автомобилями, практического смысла в нем нет.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Caught by security again ? Too bad there were some nice war thingies too look at, the Netherlands has some nice old stuff aswel but they told me it was sold most off it, stuff that now is laughably when used in war hehe

[@uberking9196]

Longer Videos plz, 20 minutes at least or go over to shorts :(

[@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath]

Most videos are longer my friend🤗

[@larspolten]

Geht doch im Winter

[@LillyRocket]

I bet the russians would like some of that stuff back - fits right in with what they "use" these days...

[@OldFartAUS]

Ukraine would be using rocks if it hadn't of been for the dirty U.S and allies with their gifts of weapons, wake up.

[@talleman1]

Probably toxic.

[@yvestressens3990]

🥲🤚👍

[@JeremyDridi-fh4cf]

Wowo

[@alfredchaparro1002]

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[@poobuddy7396]

🚬

[@Lone-Wolf87]

I'm surprised that crazy putin still hasn't send those vehicles to Ukraine. Maybe he is saving them. 😂😂😂😂

[@ВладиславРусских-т1р]

Почему эту перемогу не отправляют на Украину

[@timlabell]

Human beings made this . human beings have left this behind. it is so horrible to watch this and see what we as human beings have done.😊

[@Hiram1000]

...says the guy watching a KZbin video on his Chinese-manufactured i-phone using data technology development for the military, originally, through wireless signals from satellites, also originally developed for military use.... You're a vegan, ain't ya?

[@xcalibertrekker6693]

If it was in russia they would still be trying to use it.

[@OldFartAUS]

haha?

[@4707N0703E]

Many people know where this old base is located. By publishing your video, all you are triggering is to encourage people with bad intentions to go and degrade the site knowing that it can be easily accessed. Shame on you!

[@Iemand679]

Stop crying 😭🙏🏻

[@chriscollins550]

If many people already know about it. Then it would have been degraded already. this place has already been on global TV, on an abandoned engineering programme. It still hasn't been touched. In France not America we're they destroyed everything that's not abandoned.

[@DG-mi2mc]

Lol i still doesn't know where it is from watching this video so yeah, what @lemand678 says...

[@АртемСимаков-е4э]

Take your pills and go to bed

[@DIDI-fl5lq]

This old Canadian base in the east of France is indeed well known. It's not an easy access because it's still "guarded" by the army with some occasional patrols . I don't think u can degrade It much without betraying your presence there. And there is not much to destroy anyway...unless you use an RPG !! 😂

[@pablomontoya8303]

"The base was handed over from the americans and the canadians to the $host_country and ever since it's been completely abandoned" Cool, good to hear. Honestly best of luck. Will still be a pleasure to fight with you again but it would be nice if you could take it seriously in light of recent events...