Abandoned Russian Planes
These are photos of tens of abandoned Russian airplanes.
They now stand some more some less disassembled under the severe Russian climate, sharing their parts with some their more lucky brothers who are still flying.
There can be seen different types of planes - military and civil, all of them abandoned now.
(c) Photos by =Minaichenkov Igor W.=, retired Russian Air Force Colonel
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I can recognize every one of them from those cold war era flash cards that we trained on. I saw several Tu-22M(Code name “backfire”)& Tu-16(code name “badger”) bomber aircraft that were probably scrapped as a result of the same treaty that made us scrap most of our B-52’s back in 1996.
My guess is that the civilians are contractors and scrap metal dealers that are there to purchase.
Very very depressing
This kind of places always makes me sad.
Poor Russia. Once a sign of their might now a sign of thier weaking strength.
@ Mod:
You should post pics of the navy.
picture #1 is Tu-95 “Bear” strategic bomber, the fastest turboprop aircraft ever built. a video from YouTube with that bomber was featured on englishrussia.com some time ago. #2-6 are Tu-22M “Backfire” supersonic bomber, and #7-10 is An-22A Antey (Antaeus) “Cock”, large turboprop-powered transport aircraft.
My guess is that most of these aircrafts are being scraped not because of the USSR collapse, but due to international agreements to reduce number of strategic bombers. An-22 is probably because of its age, and since it has been superseded by a more successful (and even larger) An-124 Ruslan “Cossack” transport.
Yes very sad. Wounded birds. Forgotten glory. History, and dreams turned to scrap, and ruins. The same will happen to us one day. All Great Powers fall, and are replaced. Maybe China or India will rule the world next.
Dreams turned to scrap? I’m sure the pilots got new jobs
at some other airbase. Or did you refer to the construction workers? The officers? I’m not following you.
I would really like to know were this boneyard is as i have a dive company and i would love to get hold for the “bear Tu 95″ or any migs so my customers can dive them instead of then going to wast.
Who the hell cares about the weapons?! The less, the better. Al least now this planes serve some higher purpose-as scrap metal and reminder of human stupidity.
THOSE ARE OLD PLANES >>>> TRUST ME THEY HAVE MORE POWERFULL STUFF!
In soviet Russia, plane fly you!
really sad to see those birds w/ their wings clipped
moderator clearly needs to make up his mind
are they abandoned and falling apart “under the severe russian climate”?
OR are they being scrapped for parts as shown in the pics..
catch the diff?
I wince, because of all the exotic materials and lubricants leaching into the ground. Places like Nizhni Novgorod (fomerly Gorky) have some of the most polluted water in the world. No group of people have been mistreated, lied to, taken advantage of, and just plain shown as much disrespect as the Russian and Ukranian people.
Apart from the Americans, anyway.
Looks like it’s guarded, but still it’s probably a weapon or vehicle runner’s wetdream. Lots of open weapons and parts just ripe for the picking.
The TU-95s in the first pic had their engins going.
Those engines are not running,they got no props!Also they are BEARS not 95s
JustMe: you’re a fucking idiot. Go kill yourself and do the world a favor.
Well, only thing that’s said is that they didn’t take them apart yet. Everything else is normal. Better than holding them in use and spending money for maintenance. There’s places like this in USA also. New technologies are to come, or already came!
[quote]Yes very sad. Wounded birds. Forgotten glory. History, and dreams turned to scrap, and ruins. The same will happen to us one day. All Great Powers fall, and are replaced. Maybe China or India will rule the world next.
Comment by Uncle Sidney — December 22, 2006 @ 12:36 am [/quote]
What do you think? Who rules now? WTF
EU is next, and present!
I think that EU and Russia should be more cooperative.
The fruits of the socialist thesis, the most hideous deadly poison since the original apple. Next time think twice about unleashing it on the Motherland, you fools.
It looks to me like most of the those planes were being canabalized for parts. Thats why almost none of those planes pictured, had engines. I doubt that aluminum is even worth anything on the scrap-metal market; Kind of like Russian steel.
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Sori, my english is veri bad.
this plane are simbol cold war, but is my histori, and i have pain in my heart wen i see this photo, because this plane was been simbol of majesty my motherland.
Thank and good bue. congratulaishen wis crismas!!!
1c3d0g: Who is idiot? The nations (like Switzerland, Sweden, Finland etc.) which invest in research, education and economy and therefore have good living conditions and economic growth, or nations like North Korean which invest everything in their “great and powerful” army and have millions of their citizen living in poverty, dying because of famine. I agree. They are just too smart for me. But keep your rusty weapons and I will keep my high paying job, house, cars etc. For as long we are both happy.
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Yes, warfare is expensive and wasteful.But we have Ronald Reagan, Lech Walesa and Pope John to thank for bringing an end to that horrible regime. Millions of East Europeans are thankful to them.
wow. All that labor. All that planning. The building and precision. The glory, beauty, power. That is depressing. But it’s a depression i like. That’s the kind of stuff I come to this site for. Please keep this stuff coming.
“Sori, my english is veri bad.
this plane are simbol cold war, but is my histori, and i have pain in my heart wen i see this photo, because this plane was been simbol of majesty my motherland.
Thank and good bue. congratulaishen wis crismas!!! ”
Thank you for that comment, Igor. I’m also saddened to see fine aircraft such as these being picked apart. Unfortunately they have outlived their usefulness and progress only marches forward. JustMe, I hope you realize that some fight and some die to make this world a better place. It is machinery and weapons like those aircraft that kept egos and military ambitions IN CHECK. Please show me where those Tu-22s and Tu-95s delivered a nuclear device. DPRK is a completely different state of affairs, it is run by ONE individual and he is insane.
My two cents and then some..
I did not mean to say that war is good. Nor did I mean that wasteing talent, and resources on it was noble. I was infact mourning the dreams of the all the pilots, and engineers.
Their only wish was to fly, and protect their country. The politics of the murderous 20th century betrayed them as it betrayed us all.
Hello to all,
it is sad to see most of the aircraft, like the Tu-16, Tu-22M & An-22 are broken down to pieces.
But i want to thank the persons who put the photos on “the net” for sharing the photographs with us.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Jan.
Some of my photos on;
http://www.freewebs.com/jan100
Scrap Aluminum in the USA is fetching $0.65 a pound. Bring it over here.
I’d rather see these go to wealthy collectors in the West than be destroyed.
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Sad, but not with out hope - hopefully the Russians will (or already have) a base like Davis-Monthan.
Quale fine è riservata alla tecnologia aereonautica russa…
Curiosissima rassegna fotografica di tecnologia aereonautica russa, ormai vetusta e destinata ad essere fatta letteralmente a pezzi.Sebbene si tratti di "ferro" smontato sistematicamente, fa una certa impressione ed una sorta di inquietudine …
I think what is an stupid form of waste money and destroy our environment.
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>Scrap Aluminum in the USA is fetching $0.65 a pound. Bring it over here.
Man… Our bombers like these are (well… sadly they WERE)never made of aluminium. It’s f***in terribly expensive titanium alloys and heat-resistant steel (it’s illegal to export them), gold, copper,platinum, silver… Each of this planes cost the country almost like a piece of gold of the same size…
And each of these planes is a technical masterpiece, a collection of brightest ideas of its time….
This just breaks my heart =((
Tu-95, Tu-16, Tu-22 and An-22 mostly mades of D16T(6501) aluminium alloy. All-steel is MiG-25(with golden heat shields in engine bays).
Here are a couple of links to the US disposition yards at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona. You can also try to search “AMARC”, which is the Aircraft Maintenence and Repair Center. Most of the B-52s and older heavy iron have already been “de-milled”, i.e. cut to scrap.
You can see how the older generations of machinery are salvaged or destroyed.
TheRad
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=Tucson%20-%20Davis-Monthan%20AFB%20(DMA%20%2F%20KDMA)&distinct_entry=true
http://www.sarimage.com/Aviation/DavisMonthan/
http://www.amarcexperience.com/Scrapyards.asp
Use Nukes on everything, it’s the only way we will stop the scrap metal glut that’s comming out of Russia.
What city is this in?
This is in Ukraine near Velikie Luki.
These pics were taken in mid-90s.
only thing i could think of was how cool that would be to have one of those planes as a house…
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Justme- if it weren’t for countries like the United States that were willing to invest in military equipment and men, then more than likely you’d be in a forced labor camp on some Soviet factory farm right now.
El cementerio de aviones de combate Rusos…
Cuando los aviones de combate Rusos son decomisionados del servicio van a parar al cementerio de aviones a donde los enviamos hoy. Un paraíso para el que quiera comprar su propia cabina de avión para ese simulador de Flight Simulator X que siempre ha…
Those look like some of the planes from Chernobyl. I doubt this is a scrap yard. Go check out some of those pictures if you want to see some real sad stuff.
I don’t see these photos as particularly sad. The planes are still being used as parts sources. They aren’t just abandoned
This is normal. Older planes that have too much damage or wear to be fixed easily have parts taken off of them to be used on ones that are still flying. Every military does it. Civilian air fleets do it.
Sad, was what happened to the Russian (and other former Soviet states) economy during and after the collapse and the suffering that went with it.
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I look at all those beautiful aircraft whose sole purpose was to attack the United States and it makes me mindful of the liberals in the U.S. I realize, at long last, what their problem really is. American liberals are all bitter that their side LOST the Cold War. The USSR is gone, but the “useful idiots” continue their pointless quest.
We also have a bunch of B-52s that we had to chop-up because of the SALT treatys.
Damn it would be cool to get to loot one of those places.. Some pretty nice materials are used (atleast in western planes)… Also one could make pretty damn nice simulator-cabin from an old REAL plane-cabin… Just slam in a projector and controllers for the PC and you’re set to go..
THIS IS NOT IN RUSSIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is former Strategic Bomber base in Ukraine near town Velikie Luki. These pictures were taken in the mid 90s. On 11th picture from the bottom you may see one of the men wearing Ukranian uniform. In 1998-99 Russia worked out a deal with Ukraine and got back all of the TU-160, TU-22 and TU-95 that could fly and/or were usable for spare parts. There are now 30-something Tu-160’s based in Engels (North Russia).
See them here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSwCMoeSksg
I think they should at least keep one of each of the planes in working condition - to show what was possible technologically in those days. It is sad to see the effort of people living in those days go without a physical evidence. I have a lot of appreciation for technology as a manifestation of creation. I have looked into the future, and I saw: peace, love, health, and celebration of our creation as the triumph symbol of our civilization. Stop the War! Get well and celebrate!
inventor of WinAmp, Dmitry Boldyrev
well, I didn’t see MiG-144, Su-37, Su-47 or Yak-141
parts here. guess there’s nothing to worry about.
I just can’t wait to see them in service and hearing
about how they’re downing western technology.
OK, look, I don’t wish for war, of any kind..
but it’d be cool.. USA vs Iran vs Saudi Arabia vs Yemen.
Man, MiG-1.44 is only experimental sample, we have only one sample and it’s is very far from readiness.
Su-37 - only one sample and it was destroyed in crash and it program was closed.
Su-47 fantasic plane with fantastic price and fantastic hard to build it. We can’t make it mass… only one sample…
And on this photos i see great transport planes… They have decayed. What for? Army can give it for to civil airlines…
A also see modern strategic bombers Tu-22M3. It’s the best bombers in the world after Tu-160. and it are forgotten and destroyed…
Russia is dies like great civilazation. We became like Britan… good for citizens, but nothing great… Not at the first place of mankind like in the past…
wow, incredible pics
id like to see it on google earth, does somebody know where is it exactly?
id like to see it on google earth, does somebody know where are is it exactly?
soy de honduras y es una lastima ver estos aeronaves despedasadas . yo en lo personal soy fanatico a los aviones rusos y me da pesar verlos destruidos si pudiera yo los salvaria y los donara a museos. y los disponobles los venderia a las naciones que los requieren a precios bajos.
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[...] Throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union one can find a vast number of abandoned air, sea and land vehicles that have simply been left to rust rather than repurposed or recycled. In [...]
É muito interresante a passagem do tempo,antes esses aviões tinham grandes significados para o homem.Agora são somente peças para reciclagem ou outro destino que tenham utilidade.
Mas todo esse acervo faz parte da História de um país,e porque não da humanidade.
well sad at last ,this is what happen to non-used planes.
at least some of their parts are in working planes,still they need to store them carefully……….
greetings from india
“Wars over guys, you can rest.”
Corny but I reckon it’s a cool sentiment.
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es una lastima ver estas hermosuras abandonadas la verdad yo las reconstruiria para un museo
i want to know the location of this base if any russian people know of it and can you buy pieces of the craft?
those are the weapons for WWIII
So sad…
@ Luke Steffy, I think it’s Sperenberg Luke, former East Germany.
But if you check Google Earth, you’ll see it’s empty now..
http://www.mil-airfields.de/de/flugplatz-sperenberg.htm
Regards,
Theo
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looks like Ukrainian factory 4 recycling metal from planes[4 almost nothing in terms of money].
p.s.
yes, sad to see completely new(maybe not flown yet) version of backfire, crippled and destroyed.
Techacly if thay had payed me for putting out chernobyl the
Air craft bone yard would not been a problem. I done that type technogy before. but when the ukraine pulled fraud the technology’s were pulled.
I think many folks that are responding must have rather poor educations. The Former Soviet Union and the people there are just like the people in the U.S. Governments and ideologies come and go and the technology of both countries is very similar…A “bloodthirst Russian” is as much an oxymoron as a “Bloodthirsty American”. Both served in their military and at the behest of their governments. They were pilots and men just as were our friends and family. It is always difficult to see the fine work of engineers and laborers in a state of decay in an abandoned state, in whichever country it may be.
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yeah i guess the have more hide maybe hahahaha
poor russia they r so bad, dunno if one day they could get ok again, of course dunno when the USSR was runnin if they have hungry and thouse things, maybe the ironsheel didnt let us watch
The sweat and blood of a nation squandered on garbage.
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I’m always fascinated by Russian technology. They have many weird and strange looking machines they use for the military, which are really interesting and fascinating! It’s really sad to see those planes rot.
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