Chernobyl vehicle graveyard

[ExtraT]

Here are some pictures from a contaminated vehicle graveyard near the Chernobyl nuclear power station.

http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe01.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe02.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe03.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe04.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe05.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe06.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe07.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe08.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe09.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe10.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe11.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe12.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe13.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe14.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe15.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe16.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe17.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe18.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe19.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe20.jpg
http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe21.jpg

[mustamato]

http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe13.jpg

What are those wings for? Just some extra lifting power while moving forward?

[[AFSOC]]

Sum freaky ****t

[basket of soft kittens]

why are they there again they dont look to be in TOO bad of a condition p-)

[ExtraT]

why are they there again they dont look to be in TOO bad of a condition p-)

These are vehicles that were used in the clean up of of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. They are all contaminated. The most contaminated ones are buried in special nuclear waste "graves".

[Kriz]

AAh Tsjernobyl, another great achievment of the Soviet Union :roll:

[mustamato]

http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe01.jpg

Enough equipment for a small army in some new independent state. If Ukraine
makes a large donation of weapons to some third world state... :)

[redhawk_six]

Actually, a lot of those vehicles are probably there for no reason.... The residual radiation from the disaster is less than levels that occur naturaly. Many of those vehicles are most likely perfectly safe to use, and always have been radiation-wise. Probably just abandoned there because of paranoia. The gov't probably figured what troop is going to go near something that was used in a nucular disaster area. I would take a few of those. I'm not afraid of radiation. As I said, levels from the disaster are lower than naturally occuring levels.

Such a waste... Millions of dollars of equipment, just left to rot.... It pains me to see such a waste of perfectly good military vehicles...

[Kingpin]

Actually, a lot of those vehicles are probably there for no reason.... The residual radiation from the disaster is less than levels that occur naturaly. Many of those vehicles are most likely perfectly safe to use, and always have been radiation-wise. Probably just abandoned there because of paranoia. The gov't probably figured what troop is going to go near something that was used in a nucular disaster area. I would take a few of those. I'm not afraid of radiation. As I said, levels from the disaster are lower than naturally occuring levels.

Such a waste... Millions of dollars of equipment, just left to rot.... It pains me to see such a waste of perfectly good military vehicles...

Anyway most of this equipment very outdated. Mi-6 and some trucks directly from 60's

[Sergei]

AAh Tsjernobyl, another great achievment of the Soviet Union :roll:

This is the greatest technological disaster a human ever faced. I personaly know many firemen and "liquidators" who lost health, eye-sight, hair and teeth clearing those radioactive debris.
Now mocking about this disaster I assume that you are either:

1. Very young and stupid to comprehend the scale of the damage done to the environment and people living in it.
2. Old enough to understand that but still ignorantly think it can only happen in SU (which is wrong, Three Mile Island rings a bell?)
We are all humans and we all make mistakes, so mocking someones mistakes is showing your lack of brain tissue.

I bid you a wonderful day in whatever ****ville you just crawled out.

[Javehn]

He , i know those pictures , they are from trip of some computer guys or something like that . They have been talled some strangest thing there, and i didn't understand it : As long as you are on the road, it is safe for you . When you are stepping outside the road, you must have protective gear . That's sounds strange .

One of my teachers was there , cleaning the debrief . He said he was almost attaked by radioactive clowd .

[Sergei]

http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe01.jpg

Enough equipment for a small army in some new independent state. If Ukraine
makes a large donation of weapons to some third world state... :)

That is a stupid joke, really. I live some 120 km from this place and it is still highly radioactive. That equipment is lost and it is still so radiated that you need a decontamination suit to walk next to those trucks, BRDMs and helicopters.
And where did you see weapons exactly? Old rusting BTRs and BRDMs have their weapons dismounted and if you ever sit in one of those you are signing yourself a deathwish cause the radiation will slowly eat you up.
However, I agree it is a huge waste of resources, but when time was essential to put out this disaster, money and equipment wasn't the biggest concern really.
Chernobyl is still a deep wound to talk about it in cheery voices.

[BiZ]

I'm not afraid of radiation.

Ahhh now I know why I felt drawn to this post....to simply say...
'your sir, are an idiot'.

The "current" level of radiation may be about normal background levels.... but these vehicles were exposed to high level radiation during the evnt and subsequent clean up operations. They'd be still far more radioactive than "clean" vehicles.. and who in their right mind would still use them...? Not even the Russians..... which has got to say something about the condition of them.

Considering Russian Firefighters (who were first to attend)were told a dose of vodka would "cleanse" them of the affects of radiation.... wouldn't it make sense that if there was the slightest chance that these vehicles could have been salvaged or "magically" cleansed etc then they would have been?

Lost Human life is a waste, vehicles are gear are expendable.

[Hullebullen]

"Glow-in-the-dark" helicopters?

[venture160]

i wouldn't exactly be walking around this place like the people in the picture... unless im missing something but didn't he mention "nuclear contamination"

[Seoulstriker]

there's a reason why all those vehicles are near chernobyl. :roll:

(the limited exposure to high concentrations of radiation...those guys could be in some serious trouble now. :| )

[Kingpin]

there's a reason why all those vehicles are near chernobyl. :roll:



Where they should be?

[Sergei]

i wouldn't exactly be walking around this place like the people in the picture... unless im missing something but didn't he mention "nuclear contamination"

Those youngsters on the pictures are pure idiots. They think it is some kind of theme or amusement park. The most important thing that they forgot to take along is not a camera but a radiation monitor and check how many rads they have around them.
I wouldn't want to stay next to them when they returned from there.

The people who still work there and monitor Chernobyl plant say it is still 1000 roentgen inside the sarcophagus (a human would last several minutes) but outside the place is more or less clean, but they still wear respirators for caution.

[Herrmannek]

i wouldn't exactly be walking around this place like the people in the picture... unless im missing something but didn't he mention "nuclear contamination"

Those youngsters on the pictures are pure idiots. They think it is some kind of theme or amusement park. The most important thing that they forgot to take along is not a camera but a radiation monitor and check how many rads they have around them.
I wouldn't want to stay next to them when they returned from there.

The people who still work there and monitor Chernobyl plant say it is still 1000 roentgen inside the sarcophagus (a human would last several minutes) but outside the place is more or less clean, but they still wear respirators for caution.

http://www.mojosdailygrind.com/images/chernobyl.jpg

[Sergei]

i wouldn't exactly be walking around this place like the people in the picture... unless im missing something but didn't he mention "nuclear contamination"

Those youngsters on the pictures are pure idiots. They think it is some kind of theme or amusement park. The most important thing that they forgot to take along is not a camera but a radiation monitor and check how many rads they have around them.
I wouldn't want to stay next to them when they returned from there.

The people who still work there and monitor Chernobyl plant say it is still 1000 roentgen inside the sarcophagus (a human would last several minutes) but outside the place is more or less clean, but they still wear respirators for caution.

http://www.mojosdailygrind.com/images/chernobyl.jpg

Nope, no girls around those places. Only old babushkas decided to return there and live the rest of their lives and despite all efforts by authorities to move them out, they still come back. And I haven't seen any six-breasted babushkas yet.

P.S. You ruined such a beautiful girl with your photoshop trick. She will sue you.

[Herrmannek]

P.S. You ruined such a beautiful girl with your photoshop trick. She will sue you.

That wasn't me, somoeone else photoshoped her :)

[ExtraT]

As long as you are on the road, it is safe for you . When you are stepping outside the road, you must have protective gear . That's sounds strange .


Not strange at all. The primary means of getting contaminated is by picking up radioactive dust. Roads that are regularly used are regularly decontaminated of that dust, but if you step off - you're in trouble.

[ExtraT]

Those youngsters on the pictures are pure idiots. They think it is some kind of theme or amusement park. The most important thing that they forgot to take along is not a camera but a radiation monitor and check how many rads they have around them.
I wouldn't want to stay next to them when they returned from there.


They, of course, took some risk (I probably wouldn't do it), but they also took all the necessary precautions. Also, the area is tightly controlled - this graveyard, for example, is under constant guard.
Here is the link to the article (there are more pictures there, BTW - just not of military equipment).

http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/index.php?t=press&s=press_rel&ss=5

[KOHTPAKTHuK]

http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe01.jpg

Enough equipment for a small army in some new independent state. If Ukraine
makes a large donation of weapons to some third world state... :)

Its probably bigger than Swedens army

[anonymous individual]

http://www.gsc-game.com/russian/downloads/chern/kladbishe01.jpg

Enough equipment for a small army in some new independent state. If Ukraine
makes a large donation of weapons to some third world state... :)

Its probably bigger than Swedens army

ouch

[Krivetka]

Do you have any more pictures like that?

[Jack Mehoff]

i wouldn't exactly be walking around this place like the people in the picture... unless im missing something but didn't he mention "nuclear contamination"

Those youngsters on the pictures are pure idiots. They think it is some kind of theme or amusement park. The most important thing that they forgot to take along is not a camera but a radiation monitor and check how many rads they have around them.
I wouldn't want to stay next to them when they returned from there.

The people who still work there and monitor Chernobyl plant say it is still 1000 roentgen inside the sarcophagus (a human would last several minutes) but outside the place is more or less clean, but they still wear respirators for caution.

http://www.mojosdailygrind.com/images/chernobyl.jpg

sweet :P

[Kingpin]

sweet :P

I suppose you, Mr. Mehoff, also should go to this graveyard to grow four additional hands to have ability fully enjoy this girl :) :)

[Jack Mehoff]

sweet :P

I suppose you, Mr. Mehoff, also should go to this graveyard to grow four additional hands to have ability fully enjoy this girl :) :)

There are Deseret Chemical Depot and Dugway Proving Ground 30-40 miles from where I live

[Javehn]

It's better to grow aditional , hmhm... , then extra hands :lol:

[redhawk_six]

i wouldn't exactly be walking around this place like the people in the picture... unless im missing something but didn't he mention "nuclear contamination"

Those youngsters on the pictures are pure idiots. They think it is some kind of theme or amusement park. The most important thing that they forgot to take along is not a camera but a radiation monitor and check how many rads they have around them.
I wouldn't want to stay next to them when they returned from there.

The people who still work there and monitor Chernobyl plant say it is still 1000 roentgen inside the sarcophagus (a human would last several minutes) but outside the place is more or less clean, but they still wear respirators for caution.

Actually, there was another thread about this a while ago. In the thread, some brought up a report that looked at the radiation levels in and around Chernobyl. It was found that even right outside the plant, levels were lower than normal background radiation levels (if I remember correctly). Look the thread up, it was by russiantexan (i think that's the name) I believe. It was also pretty much determined in that thread that the vehicles after all these years are more or less safe.

[usa320]

its so wierd...all that empty, dead land...