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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.

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....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

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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

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