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Title: Graveyard for Vehicles Irradiated at Chernobyl
Post by: mirth on October 07, 2013, 11:11:14 AM

http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/10/radiation-contaminated-vehicles_07.html

Title: Re: Graveyard for Vehicles Irradiated at Chernobyl
Post by: W8taminute on October 07, 2013, 02:42:33 PM

Cool link. I noticed that there were quite a few BRDM-2s in the graveyard. Didn't those vehicles have NBC equipment as standard?

Title: Re: Graveyard for Vehicles Irradiated at Chernobyl
Post by: mirth on October 07, 2013, 02:49:55 PM

Quote from: W8taminute on October 07, 2013, 02:42:33 PM
Cool link. I noticed that there were quite a few BRDM-2s in the graveyard. Didn't those vehicles have NBC equipment as standard?

Yeah. That's why there are so many there. They used them as emergency response vehicles and just left them after.

Title: Re: Graveyard for Vehicles Irradiated at Chernobyl
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 07, 2013, 03:00:06 PM

having NBC gear and maintaining it are two different things.

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Post by: eyebiter on October 07, 2013, 03:34:46 PM

Title: Re: Graveyard for Vehicles Irradiated at Chernobyl
Post by: mirth on October 07, 2013, 04:00:12 PM

Quote from: eyebiter on October 07, 2013, 03:34:46 PM
Russians have had a lot of problems with scavengers going into the exclusion zone and stealing radioactive scrap metal for resale.

Yeah the article mentioned that the vehicles had been stripped ff the electronics and such.

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