Panzer graveyard in Bulgaria

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evangilder said:
Thieves cash in on stolen WWII German Panzer tank - International Herald Tribune
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>>According to experts quoted by the 24 Hours daily newspaper, the tanks were unfit for combat, but valued on the antiquities market at up to €50,000 (US$72,000).

That sounds reasonable to me.. maybe i'll take out a second mortgage and put a hetzer on my lawn...

.... but it would probably cost a million to transport it anywhere!


I hope the thieves didnt do any damage when they were dismantled.

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Parmigiano said:
Apparently an attraction for tourists, I recognized a Hetzer, a jagdpanzer IV and the last picture could be a Tigre 2 - Henschel turret (barrel seems too short but it may be the angle)
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Can't be a Tiger II; you're right, the barrel's too short. Also, it's not "stepped", as the two-piece KwK 43 L/71 is; nor is there a muzzle brake on the end (though that could've been removed; they're just threaded on the end, so it could've been removed before it got "rusted" on).

It's really quite sad to see these "works of art" rusting away in a foreign country; I'm quite surprised enthusiasts and collectors haven't already tried to purchase these "wrecks" from the Bulagrian government. Maybe they will now.
 
I agree with SoD, can't be a Tigre II . Not a Panther either, the turret is too big and the gun too thick and w/o muzzle brake.

Perhaps the last pic has nothing to do with the others: the source is a 'generic' newspaper and it may be that they just added 'a nice tank pic' to the original serie.
The shape in effect reminds of a more modern tank than a wwII panzer.
 
SoD Stitch said:
It's really quite sad to see these "works of art" rusting away in a foreign country; I'm quite surprised enthusiasts and collectors haven't already tried to purchase these "wrecks" from the Bulagrian government. Maybe they will now.
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Bulgaria actually has some pretty strict antiquity laws. I highly doubt that they would just let them go to the highest bidder.
 
It's not a tiger II or a panther. It's a jadgtiger. A 128 mm gun mounted on the tiger II chassis. Hope this helps
 

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Parmigiano wrote in February:

"Apparently an attraction for tourists, I recognized a Hetzer, a jagdpanzer IV and the last picture could be a Tigre 2 - Henschel turret (barrel seems too short but it may be the angle)"

Where is Bulgaria were these located?

Thank you,

Mike
 
Nr:1 is a very early Jagdpanzer IV
Nr:2 is a T34-85 turret
Nr:3 is a dug down Pz IV
Nr:4 is the same as pict. 1
Nr:5 is four Pz IVs, two Stug IIIs and one Pz IV with a Soviet ZIS 3 gun.
Nr:6 is again a T34-85 turret
 

According to the caption they are located near a town named 'Yambol'

Yambol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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