Thursday, March 10, 2005

Finding tanks with a metal detector

The boys at the "Tank Museum in Kubinka", Russia, have found a cool means by which to keep their supplies stocked. They head out onto the old battle fields of ww2 -- wherein 1000s of Soviet and German tanks battled -- and pull them up out of the bogs. Using metal detectors, they locate and then excavate the finds. The funny part is that the Russian government, Department of Defense, lays full claim to any such finds -- in case of a current war, they reserve the right to put the pieces back into combat. The boys at the museum boast that they can have them 100% battle-ready....