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Community Forums › The Discussion Group for George Bradford's AFV News › AFV News Discussion Board › Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force Base
Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force BaseThe AFV ASSOCIATION was formed in 1964 to support the thoughts and research of all those interested in Armored Fighting Vehicles and related topics, such as AFV drawings. The emphasis has always been on sharing information and communicating with other members of similar interests; e.g. German armor, Japanese AFVs, or whatever.
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econobiker Power User

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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:44 am Post subject: Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force Base |
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Not wanting to duplicate content if someone already has this but I visited the storage area on Elgin Air Force Base Florida several weeks ago. I was amazed at the volumes of tanks, apc, anti-aircraft (conventional and guided armaments), recovery, and self propelled artillery on site.
Most everything was mid 1950s on up other than Perishing/Pattons and the four M74 recovery vehicles. Several Soviet items T-72 (I think) and a couple of armored cars (one tagged with an Army Museum tag) plus two Russian trucks one sporting rocket launcher system.
Some weird modifications to the turrets of a line M46Pattons? that were outside of the fenced storage. Made me think that the turret rears were cut off to present a more Soviet tank profile.
And then there was the "salvage" area where the expended range targets were apparently salvaged for scrap. Saw some M113s with extensive damage there too along with rows of hulls and turrets of the expended M46/M47 plus other scrap vehicles.
I only mention this because there seems to be more interest in documenting range targets of interesting types more now.
I will try to post the few pictures taken with my older phone in the near term. However this storage area is also visible from Google maps. I have to transfer my pictures to my laptop and will get them here.
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mikek92888 Power User

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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force Base |
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Is this the location you are talking about: Latitude N30.5075 Longitude W-86.59
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L.Delsing Power User

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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:28 am Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force Base |
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Interesting!! Looking forward to your pictures
Regards,
Lesley
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1meandad Power User

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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force Bas |
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I found this online
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Joe_D Power User

Offline Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 2037 Location: Razorback Country
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:38 am Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force Base |
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Would love to just spend a day there collecting SN's and RN's along with a few shots documenting their existence before being destroyed,
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Rick_Eshleman Power User

Offline Joined: Apr 26, 2011 Posts: 896 Location: Lewes, Delaware, USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:53 pm Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage or range target use Elgin Air Force Bas |
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I found 2 areas of target vehicles West of Eglin AFB. 30degrees30'20.87"N by 86 degrees46'24.17"W
30degrees30'46.78"N by 86degrees35'42.19"W (triangle shaped area).
I used Google Earth, clarity is better than Bing. Dated though, both 3/28/2013. There's a large quantity of various AFVs there.
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