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. 😒
I've been told that before lol must be a product of 5 kids and a brain tumour wife. I'm sorry, I don't see sarcasm right away. It's actually funny now, sorry @grahampalmer9337
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.
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.
@@rainmaker3987 That´s funny, those bastards broke all the time when I was at army service, we had gasoline ones. Diesel is from 2k, never seen that new.
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.
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.
All of the equipment is surprisingly clean. It would have been in anew or like new when it was used but having sat 20 or 30 years it's looks spotless. Make sure you shut the doors back when you leave.
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
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'. 😐
@@TomMillard-d8h 😂😂😂😂Why are they running away and leaving the country before been forced to fight and why are they not winning they have been given enough equipment from the West and money🤨or am i talking to a bot 🤔
@@BrumKid Doens't matter how much equipment they are given when you are missing the knowledge and man power. As EU won't send foreign troops into Ukraine it's a struggling battle.
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.
That Zil you looked under the bonnet of had a yamaz 238 turbo diesal in it,you put some power n fuel in her and she'd be away! My kraz has the same engine, along with the same radio radar body 👍
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? :)
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.
Hi, I recently explored this place (to be precise, I explored it on the 26 of December 2024) and I have to admit that exploring this place is very tricky. The main entrance of the base is seemingly guarded by a guy and his German-shepherd so to get in you need to go through the woods that surround the base which isn’t very easy either because of the dense vegetation and the old hidden barbed wire défenses that are scattered around. The worst part is that this place is pretty much impossible to do without proper preparation since some buildings were renovated for French soldiers because yes, the entire military base is still often used for military training, so the best way to get in is to find a day when the base is inactive to go explore it or go in and hope to be lucky no one is there. Now the place it self is very well preserved (for real, during my 3h exploration I only saw one graffiti on one of the trucks). So yea this place is awesome but pretty hard to do, I don’t recommend it for people who start urbex. What’s kinda of sad is that unfortunately even though they saw most of the base they did miss one of the best vehicles: anti-aerial tank on the outskirts of the base.
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
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!!
With all the outdated electronics you should have looked for vacume tubes, (valves). Sov-Tech KT-88's and 12ax7's are valuable to guitar player for use in their amps.
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
@@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?
6:15 the worst thing about those "radio jammers" is that they self seed a hot spot of noise that modern micro processor circuits can "algorithmically pin point on a 120GB/s graphical map once detected, and out of local connection to any server host proceed to self coordinate on its own system sensors and map to then run to and blow it up based on heat radiation of movement relative to the average background aria or last triangulated map ID from last distortion pickup". the worst technology that could ever be used in modern conflicts. just for making noise
the only usable occupation of that old equipment is within trolling there own satellite countries that use even older tech... easily dismantled if stolen. other wise keeping the 3rd world a 3rd world. using those things is already identified as impossible for the normal high average insurgency to commodore, there medically identified syndrome of Asperger's is to high to overcome. tho if... and its a literal cod video game script, the whole base melts down, with whatever other traffic source. blurring out badly scripted AM radio, to prevent "conscription ideologies" even now using AI to regenerate phrases from the announcer simultaneously after they attempted to start a sequence. am/fm and cb radios... blurred out after one is stolen, then locked down as it turns on... same thing happens in Mexico/Columbia, inter military/police drills with outdated equipment over riding it with a joint modernization tactic. there's a Spanish movie on it but its like they didn't even know their were cameras everywhere as well.
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.
You guys enter all these old military vehicles without any protective gear... While so much stuff was filled with asbestos, radioactive paint and other shit that made a lot of military people quite sick in later years.
@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
ممنون از فیلمهای خوب شما،،، من رو میبره تو حال و هوای جنگ جهانی دوم،،، و تاریخ و علم و سیاست، پر از اطلاعات عمومیه،،،، اون زمان رو بهتر میشه درک کرد،،،،
Those Soviet 6x6 trucks are a great find!
Very little would be required to start them!
@@Jimmy-ye3wg You think?
@@dukenukem8381 diesel, fresh oil, battery or compressor, and a can of ether!!
T-62. "Only cool when it's deactivated". Epic
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. 😒
@grahampalmer9337 its been abandoned LONG ago. Hiding an old tank? From drones? Onthe other side of the continent? I hope your joking
@@iwanta32Bruh he is clearly joking😅 You take it too seriously
You're probably all right, I DO take everything too seriously. I've met some TRUE idiots though, in my defence. Lol Sorry @grahampalmer9337
I've been told that before lol must be a product of 5 kids and a brain tumour wife. I'm sorry, I don't see sarcasm right away. It's actually funny now, sorry @grahampalmer9337
There are still plenty of abandoned places, great that you still know how to find them, Bob, nice to see.
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.
I agree but we can find them in museums still lucky and see the inside
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
because they made them to be military and reliable unlike todays vehicles
We need Marty from NZ!
Yip the Zil trucks I've seen on utube seem simple and reliable
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.
@@rainmaker3987 That´s funny, those bastards broke all the time when I was at army service, we had gasoline ones. Diesel is from 2k, never seen that new.
I love old abandoned military bases or even old homes!
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.
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.
All of the equipment is surprisingly clean. It would have been in anew or like new when it was used but having sat 20 or 30 years it's looks spotless. Make sure you shut the doors back when you leave.
*S.T.A.L.K.E.R *sound like in playing in background, dope.
Very nice spot and again very good Video. Thanks for sharing 👍
Cool explore! Thanks for sharing!
Cut short that sucks, that place was huge with so much more to see.
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
Really Cool Video.
Thanks for sharing and keep up the Good Work!
I wish this video could have been longer... Cool stuff...
Another interesting upload. Thanks Bob, I always love watching
Pretty cool footage love abandoned places especially old war era and forts
There are ton of cold war bunker episodes on my channel!
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'. 😐
It’s mind boggling that most of that outdated equipment is currently taking part in a Huge war….
Sadly it will get worse before it's over !!
Ukrainian's are fierce fighters
@@TomMillard-d8h 😂😂😂😂Why are they running away and leaving the country before been forced to fight and why are they not winning they have been given enough equipment from the West and money🤨or am i talking to a bot 🤔
@@BrumKid u pretty dense huh? u have no clue how war works please take your meds.
@@BrumKid Doens't matter how much equipment they are given when you are missing the knowledge and man power. As EU won't send foreign troops into Ukraine it's a struggling battle.
@@perpelle Dont you mean NATO.
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.
Duck and cover
I and we absolutly LOVE YOUR Channel.... thumbs up!
Nice rig and gteat results. More videos with great camera please 👍🏻👍🏻
Nice little explore! Great weather too 😊
This is a dream of mine just to go around the world and see the old things that are disappearing by time 👺
That Zil you looked under the bonnet of had a yamaz 238 turbo diesal in it,you put some power n fuel in her and she'd be away! My kraz has the same engine, along with the same radio radar body 👍
Merci
Very goool pace!!!
That stuff needs to be donated to a museum.
Or back to the Russian military, they are losing equipment at a rate of knots......
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? :)
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Belated Happy Holidays Bob! Hope New Years eve is a blast for you!
Nice 👍🙌
Happy New Year guys!
From Florida.
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.
Nice one bro 🤙
A happy new year Bob.
Hey it’s been a while I believe! 👋 Hope all is good Kristian and all the best for 2025!!! 👊🍻
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath yes it is! 🥂🥂
2:22 Is that a wooden picnic table ??
well also in war u have to eat proper hahahaha
It is ! :P
Awesome Explore!
Hi, I recently explored this place (to be precise, I explored it on the 26 of December 2024) and I have to admit that exploring this place is very tricky. The main entrance of the base is seemingly guarded by a guy and his German-shepherd so to get in you need to go through the woods that surround the base which isn’t very easy either because of the dense vegetation and the old hidden barbed wire défenses that are scattered around. The worst part is that this place is pretty much impossible to do without proper preparation since some buildings were renovated for French soldiers because yes, the entire military base is still often used for military training, so the best way to get in is to find a day when the base is inactive to go explore it or go in and hope to be lucky no one is there. Now the place it self is very well preserved (for real, during my 3h exploration I only saw one graffiti on one of the trucks). So yea this place is awesome but pretty hard to do, I don’t recommend it for people who start urbex. What’s kinda of sad is that unfortunately even though they saw most of the base they did miss one of the best vehicles: anti-aerial tank on the outskirts of the base.
Yes, but you can’t get inside that one😢
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPathThat’s weird, when I went to see it the hatch was opened so I could get inside which as expected was still fully equipped 😅
dank voor de video
Hey Interesting video that Look's Like, the grostenquin Air Base in france. But I could be wrong!
You're right
@ronaldv_tm OK then thank you
Totally neat
Like the exterior styling of the old soviet era trucks
"Unfortunately, our visit was cut short". Does that imply they were confronted by security and couldn't show the footage?
Yup!
Let's hope so that there is security that prevents theft and vandalism
Park hit closing time, you can see the benches and picnic tables
It may be abandoned but it's probably still under the French MOD ownership
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
So much work and time to do these documentaries. They are small....but very important and fun!!!!
Thanks! This was just a small explore.. 😌
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!!
Bravissimi!!!!!
With all the outdated electronics you should have looked for vacume tubes, (valves). Sov-Tech KT-88's and
12ax7's are valuable to guitar player for use in their amps.
Cool stuff!
Nettle can be nasty. Many have bad reactions to it.
At least they come back regularly to cut the grass 😊
nice Spot 😮😮😮😮🎉
Want to see inside the Tank!
Abandoned vehicles need to be restored and exposed in a military museum
💪💪💪bob
Hm, neither i saw this base on another channel or this is a reupload. However, i find it really interesting again.
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
Sad but interesting post there paul 😢…..thanks 😊
Apart from its smoothbore cannon, another important feature of early T 62s was the cast turret, as we can see at 10:25.
I love the way you pronounce the "o" in "Bob" as "aah".... 🤣
PS = why was your visit "cut short" as you put it?
Because it’s still in the ownership of the French military, it’s their version of RAF Spadeadam, this airfield is used for training.
@@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?
some of those vehicles would make great will it start videos after sitting for xx years
The Soviet Union produced experts and talent in all fields
4:04 the apc in the background here , the russians are actually using them in the ukraine now
Good
This is the openingsite from the openingscene from "Tommorow never Dies". 1997.
2.28 min: Russian Hardware runs only with beer 😂🍺
I'm surprised the radio equipment is still intact. You know how much gold is in that old stuff ❓
A lot
Our visit was cut short = caught 😂
Good Ukrainian mechanics would have that t62 running around in a few days 🤣
6:15 the worst thing about those "radio jammers" is that they self seed a hot spot of noise that modern micro processor circuits can "algorithmically pin point on a 120GB/s graphical map once detected, and out of local connection to any server host proceed to self coordinate on its own system sensors and map to then run to and blow it up based on heat radiation of movement relative to the average background aria or last triangulated map ID from last distortion pickup". the worst technology that could ever be used in modern conflicts. just for making noise
the only usable occupation of that old equipment is within trolling there own satellite countries that use even older tech... easily dismantled if stolen. other wise keeping the 3rd world a 3rd world. using those things is already identified as impossible for the normal high average insurgency to commodore, there medically identified syndrome of Asperger's is to high to overcome. tho if... and its a literal cod video game script, the whole base melts down, with whatever other traffic source. blurring out badly scripted AM radio, to prevent "conscription ideologies" even now using AI to regenerate phrases from the announcer simultaneously after they attempted to start a sequence. am/fm and cb radios... blurred out after one is stolen, then locked down as it turns on... same thing happens in Mexico/Columbia, inter military/police drills with outdated equipment over riding it with a joint modernization tactic. there's a Spanish movie on it but its like they didn't even know their were cameras everywhere as well.
калосально зил с дизельным двигателем вот это шедевр
Looks like Project IGI location
This is really avoid gesture for exploring w1 2 w2 armoured equipment n instalations carry it on God bless u all
Should pop over to Afghanistan where America abandoned $85 billion worth of military equipment. That would be a great explore.
Missing Summer
2:22 & 2:27 shows picnic benches, how abandoned is this?
He literally explained at multiple times that the base wasn’t completely abandoned 😶
01:33 thats a blank not a live round
а где эта база так сохранена отлично
hey finding ! good well ! but Air Base from ?
kool
Did yall get shot at? Almost sounded like a bullet hit next to yall at the end when guy was standing on the tank...
I would take a geiger counter out to make sure things aren't radioactive. That could be a reason they are left abandoned.
Yeah, y may have a point to consider!
All this equipment I’m sure adilf in Kiev would love it.
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.
Where did you leave Jeroen??
Waiting for S2 haha :P
Whe was your visit cut short?
that stuff should be in museums, not out there rotting
Hi
Lots of old Anti Air and AAA battery equipment....
does the guy in the black t-shirt have it on backwards?
cut short I guess means you guys got discovered by security
The question is how they get theese equipments?
You guys enter all these old military vehicles without any protective gear... While so much stuff was filled with asbestos, radioactive paint and other shit that made a lot of military people quite sick in later years.
very sad the soviets haven't quite been able to modernise or upgrade its systems
Coolbeens
what is the name of the air base? would like to google earth it
😢 what are you doing there😢😢
the crazy thing is Russia still uses the same material to this day
Are you sure ? 😅😅
@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
What, metal?
@@paulshand2847 just look at some videos online, I don't say they use all of it but alot they still do!
@@Pilesofshoes yes they using but everything is modernized
Better hope those aren't the irradiated vehicles from the Chernobyl cleanup
ممنون از فیلمهای خوب شما،،، من رو میبره تو حال و هوای جنگ جهانی دوم،،، و تاریخ و علم و سیاست، پر از اطلاعات عمومیه،،،، اون زمان رو بهتر میشه درک کرد،،،،