buzzer Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 http://www.project-x.org.uk/armsdump018.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter63a Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Yes, even Thompson's are mortal! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/sad.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cool.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Chris Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Those pictures seem to pop up every few months or so. Very sad waste of hardware. IIRC, they were dumped somewhere in Pacific Asia after a war (WW2, Korea?). Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron A Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 We keep seeing these photos on this site - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PATHFINDER Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yes, a few months back these photos were traced to a Polish language web site and were verified as a post war dump of weapons in Poland. Russia had fobed off all non-Russian/lend lease stuff to satalite soviet countries. These were dumped when Russia produced enough AK/SKS to make them obsolete. Or so the story goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimFromFL Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 QUOTE (DC Chris @ Aug 8 2004, 01:05 PM) Those pictures seem to pop up every few months or so. True and it hurts everytime I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
full auto 45 Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 And I could own alot more of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TactAdv Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 ....these pictures were taken in 1979 in "Saigon", nee Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. They are NOT in 'Poland' post-WW II, as if you look through the range of images there are many, many modern era weapons in the dump including M60's, M134's(GE 'Miniguns'), etc. The depot is a Viet Nam military weapons facility just outside H-C-M City that had amassed thousands of weapons, almost all-nonindiginous, that they no longer could support or feed. Virtaully all are either ex-USA or French origin, no surprises there. -TomH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftc3906 Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 Later sold to IMA for scrap at $50.00 each in order to generate hard currency. Now sold by IMA to U.S. Thompson aficionados as spare parts sets at $1,014.00 each. http://www.ima-usa.com/product_info.php/cP...products_id/817 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colt21a Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 QUOTE (TactAdv @ Aug 12 2004, 02:02 PM) ....these pictures were taken in 1979 in "Saigon", nee Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. They are NOT in 'Poland' post-WW II, as if you look through the range of images there are many, many modern era weapons in the dump including M60's, M134's(GE 'Miniguns'), etc. The depot is a Viet Nam military weapons facility just outside H-C-M City that had amassed thousands of weapons, almost all-nonindiginous, that they no longer could support or feed. Virtaully all are either ex-USA or French origin, no surprises there. -TomH yep 100% correct.i had the list faxed to me years ago to buy this stuff from some broker.........the list almost used up my entire fax machine roll when it came through!! what a waste of time.the prices were dirt cheap.however at the time you could not get anything in. and they wanted to know if i wanted to buy m-60 tank's rusted and used??and chopper's w/o the motor's...i guess they converted the engines to slick running sam-pam's....... when i got to the thompson and colt and rem.rand .45 list that was sad.........and they still had some packed in grease in crate's.and metal drum's.........{L.t.s.} they had over 7,000 thompson's.....and over 14,000 45 pistol's....this was around 1993.today probably all junk...or spread around the planet...........i heard some m-16's turn up in south africa.haiti.and afghanistan.......go figure........... however sad. take care,ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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