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Relic hunting and restoration of armored vehicles in Russia
Despite that in Russia there are many vehicle relic hunting groups, as Russian law, all founded armored vehicles are property of GAPTU (Armored department of Russian Defense Ministry). Argumentation: "if tomorrow the war, all historical military armored vehicles will be at front..." Strange? But during the battle for Moscow 1941 many people volunteer detachments had....the rifles 1812M from the Smolensk museum. Found on the battlefields after 60 years, any armored vehicles could be put in the order by our specialists.
The stage N1. Searching of the vehicles.
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| The testing of the bog or wood. Details... | The extracting of the soviet tank T-34. Details... |
Really, under control of chief of Museum, the museum specialists put in the order WWII German and Soviet armored vehicles.
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Chief of Museum SbCol. Ryjov with the specialists |
T-34-76 (very rare, early model). Exactly this model (no T-34-85) was at Kursk tank battle. Found recently at battlefields |
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World War two soviet tank T-34-76 during the restoration |
The same soviet WWII tank, another view |
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| Original tank label on the turret "Sniper" | After cleaning and re-painting |
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Testing the German "Panther" magneto |
Testing the German "Panther" |
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"Bosch" engine magneto inside |
Impossible! Life-time German warranty quality. 60 years in strong Russian winter and summer, under snow and rain, but does like like new. This magneto of "BOSCH" serial N JGN6R18a does work, because after WWII soviet specialists occasionally broke it without German manuals. |
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The German Assault Gun on T-III issued 1942. Found by local relic hunters of Pskov region in 2002. Local administration charged tank museum for 8 000 USD, but the museum is the state military unit, no such money... 2 years under raining, snow... corrosion ....some vehicles parts were stolen... That's Russia... Total amount of the vehicles founded but not extracted from the river or earth = 10 units The new expedition may cause the new founded vehicles...
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Relic hunting on the real battlefields (Soviet Army vs. German, Italian and Hungarian, 1942-1943 ). The photo from our last expedition (April 2004 ). All photos will be soon. Joint us for next 2005 springtime & summer expeditions? Mail us at army1@nm.ru or leave your question at www.voenforum.ru |
Would you like to see the German tanks inside and the real work? Would you like to see the Hitler bunker inside and find his personal belonging? Would you like Send e-mail Michael Blinov, Sr.Lt., about the specializing excursion army1@nm.ru Tank famous individual and small group budget battlefields and relic hunting tours are available also.
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