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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - The Arms Dump - weapons disposal yard in Vietnam

Posted: 2/18/2018 10:41:38 PM EDT

Took these from reddit... brutal

Tried to pick the main ones for the lazy people... the rest (like 75) are here https://imgur.com/a/poo7O

Posted: 2/18/2018 10:54:59 PM EDT

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The Office- Michael Scott No God No

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

Posted: 2/19/2018 12:26:39 AM EDT

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Damn!!! I'll take a few of those 60's !!!!

Posted: 2/19/2018 12:32:45 AM EDT

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I must be a fool, but I always truly suffered when I saw mistreated historical firearms.

Posted: 2/21/2018 9:55:01 PM EDT

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This may be the most upsetting thing I’ve ever seen on this wonderful site.

Posted: 2/22/2018 4:51:12 AM EDT

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^^^ This.

Posted: 2/22/2018 5:52:19 AM EDT

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Those pictures were taken in 1990 at the arms dump outside of old Saigon, everything in those pics was condemned to the smelters shortly there after. It's all gone now.

Posted: 2/22/2018 2:08:49 PM EDT

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A little pb blaster followed up with some clp and they would have been fine.

Seriously though, what a waste. Even as a demilled wall hanger they could have been something better than melted down.

Posted: 2/22/2018 2:13:52 PM EDT

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weren't they in a warehouse that burned down?

Posted: 3/29/2018 5:11:33 PM EDT

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Call the time machine and Turnbulls Restorations!

Posted: 3/29/2018 5:25:07 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/29/2018 5:29:52 PM EDT

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weren't they in a warehouse that burned down?

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Those pictures were taken in 1990 at the arms dump outside of old Saigon, everything in those pics was condemned to the smelters shortly there after. It's all gone now.

weren't they in a warehouse that burned down?

That would make sense.

Posted: 3/29/2018 5:29:58 PM EDT

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should have seen the piles of weapons in Iraq in '03...I had to leave the area...or I would have lost it and cried....

Posted: 3/29/2018 9:26:41 PM EDT

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We threw captured weapons in mass graves in south America, You may cry at those pictures, but I can't imagine how many weapons are in massive holes all over the world or at the bottom of lakes and oceans.

Posted: 3/29/2018 9:38:21 PM EDT

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We threw captured weapons in mass graves in south America, You may cry at those pictures, but I can't imagine how many weapons are in massive holes all over the world or at the bottom of lakes and oceans.

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If I'm not mistaken there are several ocean sites you can even dive with entire tanks / jets /etc dumped after WW2

Posted: 3/29/2018 9:44:52 PM EDT

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I would be interested in diving off Vietnam, some of the shit thrown overboard was amazing at the end of our involvement, We left Nam in 75 and I went in the service in 79, so I got the opportunity to serve with a lot of the lifers and some of the stories they told were amazing, if half of those were true...holy crap.

Posted: 3/30/2018 5:37:31 PM EDT

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I'd be interested in seeing the M16 that fell out of the starboard door of our gunship after being dislodged by hostile fire - remember it like it was yesterday, watching it tumble into the jungle canopy (remember the ass chewing I got as well).

Posted: 3/31/2018 2:02:39 PM EDT

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My lord if those were all transferable there would be billions of dollars there.

Posted: 4/1/2018 6:23:30 AM EDT

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Same. I carried a pig for about 4.5 years. Of all the weapons I carried while I was in, it is the only serial number that I can still recite. The only time she ever failed me, was when I let someone else clean her and he put the bolt together wrong.

Posted: 4/2/2018 10:11:10 AM EDT

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There was an article many years ago in Soldier of Fortune that showed a lot of weapons still in decent shape as well as a lot of items like this. There were sealed containers of truck and Huey parts that were serviceable and worth a good bit of money here, but not legal to bring in the US

Posted: 4/2/2018 11:39:17 AM EDT

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I have to believe that these were damaged in some sort of fire or something, then stacked outside for processing and reclamation.

I can't imagine any entity throw that much money way when it can be used or sold.

Posted: 4/3/2018 2:57:40 AM EDT

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I’m not saying that there wasn’t a fire, but I sure do see a lot of intact wood stocks and plastic handguards on those weapons. Those parts wouldn’t have survived a fire serious enough to damage the metal parts. Maybe their shoddy “warehouse” quickly burned down, and the mostly undamaged weapons were just left to the elements.

I suspect that Vietnam was awash in weapons by the mid/late 1970’s, and “obsolete”, worn, or battle-damaged weapons were not re-sellable, or worth the effort to sell off anyway. Maybe the individuals who had control over these weapons had “bigger fish to fry”, or they were just too lazy to do anything other than leave the guns to rot.

Posted: 4/4/2018 6:03:36 AM EDT

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Good morning Rip Van Winkle. Welcome to the 21st Century, where emotion overrides any semblance of common sense. This is the time when places like NYC would rather spend thousands of dollars contracting bulldozers and pay them to drive over a bunch of seized motorcycles and ATVs, and making a giant spectacle out of the entire thing, than to put them up for auction to help pay for the work it takes to seizing those prohibited toys in the first place. https://nypost.com/2016/05/17/nypd-crushes-illegal-dirt-bikes-as-a-message-to-knuckleheads/

Do you really think military weapons are going to get treated better? Especially in a Communist led country like Viet Nam?

Posted: 4/4/2018 6:36:34 AM EDT

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Those pictures were taken in 1990 at the arms dump outside of old Saigon, everything in those pics was condemned to the smelters shortly there after. It's all gone now.

weren't they in a warehouse that burned down?

Wood and plastic looked unaffected by heat or flame.

Posted: 4/4/2018 7:12:00 AM EDT

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It is hard to imagine That Vietnam had much of a economy back in 75 when we left . You would have thought they would have sold off a lot of that stuff for the cash.

On the other hand I suppose things were not very organized at that time either and finding a foreign buyer and arraigning transportation would envolve some work

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