Let's start a thread dedicated to military technology reclaimed by nature.
>Pic Related
The Bismarck at its final resting place.
I'll be monitoring this thread.
>>28398420
>>28398420
there she lurks waiting for the day to rise again
>>28398458
That's kind of spoopy. What exactly is it since it's hard to make out?
>>28398557
The wreck of Soviet Submarine K-129.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
Ardennes Forrest fox holes
>>28398456
It wants a belly rub.
>>28398420
Requiescat in Pace, the world wasn't ready ;_;
>>28400497
I think a far more accurate thing to say is that it wasn't ready for the world. Beautiful ship though.
This one always makes me sad...
>>28400570
What am I seeing here
>>28400586
The Kee Bird was a United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress, serial 45-21768, of the 46th Reconnaissance Squadron, that became marooned after making an emergency landing in northwest Greenland during a secret Cold War spying mission on 21 February 1947. While the entire crew was safely evacuated after spending three days in the isolated Arctic tundra, the aircraft itself was left at the landing site. It lay there undisturbed until 1994, when a privately funded mission was launched to repair and return it. The attempted recovery resulted in the destruction and loss of the airframe by fire on the ground.
There is an episode of NOVA about it "B-29 Frozen in Time" a really good watch...but sad as hell too.
>>28398420
bullshit pic, no way the water is that clear.
>>28400632
>>28400610
Too bad the recovery "crew" was lead by a fucking retard.
If they had planed things out ahead better things probably would have worked out a lot better.
>>28400625
It's a fucking painting.
>>28398420
>>28400586
Captain America's summer home
>>28398420
Questions
a) Is that a real pic or "artist's impression?
b) if real pic: Where are the turrets? Did she turn during sinking so they fell outta the barbettes?
c) if real pic: Why is there so few shit, growth on the ship?
d) if reall pic: How the hell can the background be so light blue if shes several Km deep where there is absolutely no visible sunlight anymore?
Dont wanna sound cocky guys, just wanted to put my questions in order. Here, have the Mike Class at 1858m
>>28398445
>>28398420
I dont know too much about the German ships, i know Bismarck was sunk by torpedo, but what happened tot he turret?
>>28400801
Surprisingly intact for that depth.
I guess it must have flooded quickly for it too not have been squished like a soda can at crush depth?
>>28398451
>>28400673
I got the feeling that they put too much effort into 'how cool would it be if we could fly it out'.
I would have gone up with tools, stripped the airframe down to a minimum weight (drop the engines, etc.) and brought in a skycrane chopper to haul it back to a nice, warm hanger for restoration.
>>28400820
>what happened tot he turret?
Turrets are held in by gravity. When the ship sank, it probably rolled and the guns just fell out.
>>28398478
>>28400801
a, Painting
b, Yes
c, There isn't much growth on the actual existing photos. I assume the depth and cold water means there isn't much life
d, See A
>>28400436
>>28400876
Ah, thanks anon.
I know in some places they scutle ships to encourage the growth of coral reefs
Anyone got pictures of military ships they've done that with?
>>28400465
>>28400542
Nature was in a hurry to reclaim that one.
Lets check the tarmac temperature in Popeii
>>28400625
Sherlock motherfucking Holmes, I swear to god you fucking tard
>>28400951
Kill yourself captain memes.
>>28400484
>>28400510
>>28400865
>feels
>>28401009
Isn't that a Sherman?
>>28400595
>>28400640
What is it? A memorial?
>>28401009
That's a Sherman you retarded Slavonigger
>>28401029
Yes, that is Pearl Harbor, the wreck of the battleship Arizona specifically.
The building has a glass bottom I believe to allow for viewing.
>>28401015
You should have seen the abandoned tank feels thread a few weeks back.
>>28401055
Oh wow, cool! At least Arizona is getting some good use after so long.
>>28401080
What? It's not "getting use", it's a grave.
>>28400899
Thanks Dr.
>>28400840
Youre right. If theres enough water inside theres no room (read: air) that could be compressed by the water pressure.
The spoopiest shit I ever read about sinking ships was in a book about ww2 U-Boats: During an attack on an atlantic convoy, a freight ship full of wood and rubber was torped and sunk qucikly. But thanks to the load and several air pockets it only sank to about 60 feet where it floated for about half an hour before she finally sunk.
Five of the crew managed to leave the ship during that time and got rescued by anouther ship of the convoy although they had orders to never stop during a submarine attack.
Goddamnit, that sounds like youre sitting in an elevator to hell waiting for the wires to rip apart
>>28400673
Toahuayuan
>>28401080
>please let him be a troll
>please
>>28400625
you have something against paintings, son?
>>28401039
To his defense, they were some lend-lease shermans used by the soviet.
Where are these wrecks? It'd be interesting to check out where they are, and why haven't they been scrapped by scavengers?
>>28401063
>>28401180
these are the only two borderline acceptable captions
all others are fucking autistic shit.
>>28401330
Agreed, i much prefer the ones without caption.
But hard to tell the difference from the thumbnails.
Her crew had been dead for over 70 years, of that she was sure. Direct strike from a shell had killed her commander, leaving her derelict hull to vigil in this remote glen. She was not sad at this. She had killed several fascist tanks in her tour of duty through Europe, and she had seen the horror of a population euthanized by a madman. Her rusted armor plates had seen the liberation of families of a lost generation, and witnessed the corpses of those responsible found wanting. This once great equalizer now watched the flowers bloom again, but she never stopped longing to be the fearsome protector she once was. Then, on cold December night, she heard a familiar ring, then a thump, and bump, and as she strained against the tracks that shackled her to the resting place in the glen, she felt it. Four cloaked figures racing through the trees, two of them much smaller than the others. They paused at her glen, spoke in hushed tones, then made for her carcass. They carried rifles like she had never seen, and the young ones looked wide eyed with terror as the the larger of the four wrestled open her hatch.
"Be strong for your sister, James," the other one said, lowering the two into her turret. The smallest one sobbed as the two huddled together.
"M...mommy?"
An explosion sounded, much closer now.
"We have to go!" The man hissed, "they saw us come this way."
"Hush now, children. Stay here and don't go out side for anything or anyone. Do you understand?" She leaned in and kissed them both. "I love you."
The gunfire was growing louder, and the Sherman felt a spark of fury as the man closed her hatch. The two adults slipped back into the night, while their babes huddled in fear from the approaching assault.
<rest now, little ones.> thought the tank, steeling herself from dark thoughts of destruction. <I will hold you.> Tyranny cometh, and once again, she had purpose.
>>28401055
No glass bottom. Memorial wall inside and you can look down from the windows.
>>28400640
Bunker oil still flows from the wounds...
>>28400840
The Mike Class had a batshit deep crush depth, I wouldn't be surprised if some of it was still sealed when that picture was taken.
>>28400801
When the Bismark turned upside-down while it was sinking, the guns fell out because the only thing holding them in was gravity.
Yamato in her current slumber
Maybe in after a century when the Gauli Glacier has melted they might find this thing again, which led to the advent of alpine areal rescue
>>28404144
>/mlp/ takes over a tank
>>28401322
Iron is cheap. Raising ships expensive.
If there is something important on a ship that sinks in deep water, like nukes, somebody's navy will swoop those up real quick. I can't remember which Russian sub it was, but it had nuclear torpedoes and sank. When the Russians got around to investigate the wreck there was a torpedo sized hole on the hull outside the torpedo room.
>>28398494
Are these like when Jesus or the virgin marry appear in things for people, but murder /k/ube versions?
>>28401023
“Last spring Thomas Kendal, a retired Californian industrialist of 44 started a leisurely trip around the world in a PBY amphibian that he had converted into a lavish flying yacht. Kendal’s party consisted of his wife Miriam, his children - Bob, 24, Susan, 15, Paul, 11 Kathy, 9 - his secretary Ramona Shearer, and her son Stephen, 11. Photographer David Lees joined the group during the trip to record part of it for Life. One evening a few weeks ago Kendall landed on the Gulf of Aqaba in the middle east and the pleasure trip turned into a harrowing, almost fatal adventure, which he describes in the following article.” This is the introduction to the article written by Thomas W Kendal in the magazine Life.
Below is a brief summary of the article, the full article can be read in the edition dated 30th May 1960 of the magazine. Some of David Lees’ original photographs can be seen together with other original photographs of the aircraft including the luxurious interior on the Pinterest.
On the 22nd March 1960 Thomas Kendall landed at the Strait of Tirana and anchored the aircraft a short distance from the shore to spend the night there. They heard someone shouting but did not pay any attention. In the afternoon of the following day they were attacked with machine guns and automatic firearms from a headland nearby. The children were able to swim back to the aircraft. Mr Kendal and his secretary were wounded while trying to start the Catalina but moved it about 800 metres, unfortunately it ran aground on a coral reef. The firing lasted 30 to 40 minutes and no fewer than 300 shots hit the aircraft. The fuel tanks were perforated and 4000 L of fuel poured from the holes but miraculously the aircraft did not catch fire. The sea was only about 1.5 metres deep and all aboard managed to leave the aircraft and reach the shore. On the beach they were captured by a group of Bedouins attached to the Saudi Arabian army, who had taken them to be Israeli commandos.
>>28401322
>>28405294
Here's something neat - the German WW1 Scapa Flow wrecks were harvested for low-background radiation steel after the advent of nuclear testing caused all newly made steel to be slightly radioactive, beyond what was acceptable for instrumentation.
Other than that, whether a ship is raised or not pretty much depends on how deep it sank.
>>28405294
K-219, it was a Yankee-class missile carrier that went down in the Atlantic, 18,000 feet deep.
At least one of it's SLBMs was destroyed when it sank, others were found to be gone with the hatches opened.
>>28405379
thieving merman scum
>>28400510
>Sherman's march to the sea.jpg
>>28405326
>>28405294
citation needed
>>28400673
>>28400682
.....Damn
>>28400436
far cry 3 as fuck
>>28401922
>Bunker oil still flows from the wounds...
Fucking Japanese making a goddamn ecological mess..
Even under the sea, the Imperial flag still flies.
>>28405652
Some krautaboos left it there, absolutely no way a flag could survive underwater for ninety years
>>28405772
if the water is calm and cold enough it'd last forever.
>>28405806
maybe 21st century nylon, but not cotton flags from the turn of the century
Yes, in calm seas with no microorganisms to literally eat it it could last forever, but that doesn't happen
also the flag in the pic is clearly printed nylon attached with some nylon rope, so obviously it was put there within a few months
>>28400780
Underrated post/10
>>28400699
Want me to try to put a caption on this?
>>28405867
No, that shit is cringey as fuck
>>28400876
Damn anon how did you know, do you have a history with mil. Tech?
>>28405867
Nah. Put OpChan popping out of the commander's cupola.
>>28405922
Despite the dubs that's just stupid.
inb4: characterizing tanks is stupid
>>28405922
This is why I'm sure you're a 26 year old master troll, not a 60 year old bitter neocon.
