Tanks Swallowed By Nature Look So Peaceful As If The War Never Happened (45 Pics)

Japanese Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha medium tank (1943)

That's a Russian kv tank.

It doesn't look peaceful; it is a dark reminder of a dark time. Maybe it should be dragged out of that field of flowers. I doubt the Russians who survived Barbarossa think it is a peaceful anything.

kv-1

Sherman!

I understand it's part of the history and i ahould respect that. On the other hand, it's sad to see that old rusty useless garbage litters such a nice beach.

Btw , do you know how many of these tanks fought in 1. world war? Not even one , this is real ww 1 tank http://www.worldwar1...ritish-tank.jpg

Definitely looks like a American Korean War vintage tank. "Patton" type I think. I wonder wear. Wish there was more information with these photos.

whaaaat???

M4A3 Sherman

Take that tree BAM

WOW!!!

Look like M2's, the linear precursor to the M3/M5 Stuart. Hardly any of them saw combat and they were relegated to training duties and out-of-the-way postings down the priority chain where tanks were needed but were thought of as unlikely to be involved in combat. I'm guessing these arrived in the Antarctic as insurance against German or japanese attacks on American scientific outposts there? Also useful to test tank endurance against really seriously adverse conditions - could a crew survive inside or just freeze to death?

Because the Nazi's had a secret base in Antarctica, everyone knows that :)

I'm pretty sure that those are caterpillar-tracked expeditionary vehicles.

These don't look like Tanks these are tankettes

They should be recovered and put in a museum.

There was a practice range for the U.S. Navy there at one time. Possibly these were targets?

The same tank as in the first image, I think.

Nice!

Looks like the A9/A10 tank hull used on a family of British tanks and SPG's 1940-45. The most numerous was the "Valentine" tank (which went into service on February 14th 1941) and which equipped British, Canadian and some soviet are moured units. Including the earlier A9/A10 series, around 9,000 built in total.

Yup

Decommissioned Israeli Centurion tank in the Golan Heights, Sep. 08, 2016. These are what the heroes of the October War in 1973 fought in, and now they are just left there to rust in peace... Foray_08_0...b4d253.jpg

Tanks or pillboxes? During World War 2 Germans would put a tank turret on a concrete foundation for a pillbox.

This is on a japanese ship in truk lagoon. The lagoon is full of these.

the tanks were deliberately sunk to form an artificial coral reef

C´ mon!

Leopard 1?