{"id":63768,"date":"2026-03-03T23:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63768"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:28:22","slug":"a-long-underground-canal-and-a-strange-military-vehicle-graveyard-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/03\/a-long-underground-canal-and-a-strange-military-vehicle-graveyard-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"A long underground canal and a strange military vehicle graveyard in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many places where you can see old abandoned military vehicles, but some of them are truly unusual.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/04\/a-graveyard-of-abandoned-m-60-patton-tanks-in-the-colorado-desert\/\">A graveyard of abandoned M-60 Patton tanks in the Colorado desert<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/29\/a-graveyard-of-british-tanks-and-armoured-personnel-carriers-in-the-island-of-cyprus\/\">A graveyard of British tanks and armoured personnel carriers in the island of Cyprus<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This is the case of a place that the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Simply_Adventure\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simply_Adventure<\/a> showcased in its latest video, published last Sunday. <strong>The video's creator has chosen not to reveal the location, only that it is in Belgium.<\/strong> The video begins by showing a closed, navigable underground canal. The creator notes that <strong>the canal was built in the 1880s<\/strong> and closed in the 1950s. Both entrances are sealed.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting that channel, <strong>the video's author shows a strange graveyard of Belgian Army military vehicles<\/strong>. There are two Volvo N10 6x6 trucks, one overturned and the other abandoned in a curious ditch. <strong>There's also an upside-down Leopard 1 tank and an M-108 self-propelled howitzer<\/strong> abandoned on a slope. A strange arrangement. Perhaps it was a testing ground? <strong>The video ends by showing a variant of the M-113 armored personnel carrier<\/strong> that I haven't been able to identify (the video is in German; you can activate automatic English subtitles in the player's bottom bar).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\ude31 War hier ein U-Boot versteckt? Warum liegt dieser Panzer im Sumpf?\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5W5dEBiCWUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from this interesting video here. <strong>Here we see the interior of the navigable canal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127736679_039f056363_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127736679_f0ce68916e_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Leopard 1A5BE main battle tank<\/strong>. It is completely overturned. The gun was secured in its transport position. The Belgian Army operated 334 tanks of this type.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127486806_da08b35a96_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127486806_069bc0267c_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Belgian Army Volvo N10 6x6 truck.<\/strong> The letters \"KFOR\" identify it as a NATO Kosovo Force vehicle. In the video, we can see another overturned Volvo N10 6x6 truck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127736694_1ae9af9133_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127736694_2be33e96b5_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An M-108 self-propelled howitzer<\/strong> with a 105 mm gun. The Belgian Army had 95 of these howitzers, which were retired in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127881910_1a5b37c89c_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127881910_3680a5e7c5_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An old Belgian Army M-113.<\/strong> I don't know which variant this is. I know many versions of this armored vehicle, but I've never seen this one before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127881890_27cf96dc02_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55127881890_b3c04d73e2_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many places where you can see old abandoned military vehicles, but some of them are truly unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16877],"tags":[26389,11449,7320,26386,7515,18312,26388],"class_list":["post-63768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-ruins","tag-belgian-army","tag-belgium","tag-leopard-1","tag-m-108","tag-m-113","tag-undisclosed-locations","tag-volvo-n10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}