A curious graveyard of planes and military vehicles in the middle of the British countryside

@ElentirENG ES 4·11·2023 · 23:17 0

The planes that are withdrawn from service sometimes end up in the most unexpected places, as is the case of the place that occupies us today.

Moncayo: an airplane graveyard in a Spanish mountain at more than 2,000 meters
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The British urban explorer The Bearded Explorer posted an interesting video of an aircraft and military vehicle graveyard in the middle of the English countryside. The material is very varied: old French fighters Dassault MD 452 Mystère II, a Sukhoi Su-22 on whose fuselage a German Luftwaffe cross is still visible, a helicopter attack Mil Mi-24 (does not seem to have insignia indicating its origin), some American trainers Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star (already skeletal) even a Soviet anti-aircraft ZSU-23-4 Shilka.

And what does all that material look like there? Despite the logical deterioration over time, it is not an airplane graveyard like the one in Moncayo, Spain, which is the result of plane crashes. The planes in this British graveyard have been intentionally left there , even placing external fuel tanks on their supports. for what reason?

Another curious detail in the video is that some of the Mystère IIs and the Shooting Stars have red stars painted on their drifts, as is currently done on US military aircraft used as aggressors in the training of pilots in combat tactics. But in the days of those old planes (1950s) that was not done.

The description of the video sheds some light on this: "The site was used as a training camp during the Cold War period and is still owned by the MOD [Ministry of Defence], for so visiting it was very risky, since they still use it occasionally!" Anyway, there are places that it would be advisable not to go into, just in case... I leave you here with the video: