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Steel Skeletons of Soviet Afghanistan

BRDM-2 somewhere near Kandahar International Airport. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Captain Charles G. Grow, 18JAN2002.

T-54B near Bagram Air Base, 29MAY2002. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Arlo K. Abrahamson.

T-55 Bagram Air Base, 03NOV2003. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Scott T. Sturkol.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

14JUL2007, plenty of T-62s in the Kandahar tank graveyard.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

Same time and place, but these are T-55s.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

BRDM in the tank graveyard, Kandahar, 14JUL2007.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

BMP-2s, Kandahar graveyard, 14JUL2007.

Camp Shaheen.

November 2010, a maintenance supervisor with Company D, 186th Brigade Support Battalion, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team cuts-up an old Soviet occupation armored vehicle in Durani Village, Parwan Province, Afghanistan.  The villagers were able to sell the pieces of steel to recyclers for cash.

USMC video report on U.S. Army’s 832nd Engineer Company chopping up old tanks:

BTR-80, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan, January 2010.

Quick video, steel skeletons of Panjshir:

Photo by Staff Sergeant Teddy Wade, 02JAN2010.

Panjshir Province, BMP in between T-54 and T-62, January 2010.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ken Scar, 12OCT2011.

Tank graveyard, Combat Outpost Red Hill, Parwan Province, October 2012.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Ken Scar.

BMP-1, Bamyan Province, Afghanistan, 06JUN2011.

T-54/55, Bamyan Province.

Nowzad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, February 2011.  Children line up for school while a relic (T-55) of the 1980s Soviet occupation rusts away in the background.

Derelict World War Two era Soviet T-34/85 in Muqer District, Ghazni Province, March 2012.

T-55 in Nowzad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan February 2012.

Remains of ZSU-23-4,  Bala Hissar Fortress, August 2013.  You can see where the anti-aircraft tank took a direct hit in the side.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Kenneth Foss, 26AUG2013.

Bala Hissar Fortress, August 2013.

BMP-1s and a T-54/55 (without bore evacuator) in Bamyan Province, February 2013.

Soviet occupation era T-55 still in use.  The U.S. Marine Corps observed Afghan government forces use it against rebel troops in Sangin District, Helmand Province, August 2018.

Vehicle I-D: ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

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