Reminds me of everything from Half Life 2.

dingus

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Wasn't it Michelangelo that said this?

Tjoez

Reminds me of the 'hatch' from Lost.

b0bcat

Read "The World Without Us." This scene reminds me of that book.

LoganAdams

Us being the USA. On the web, sometimes I forget about the world wide part.

stryder100

@AlexTheSane: Didn't DaVinci say something about how the sculpture is in the rock, he just had to remove the parts that didn't belong. Maybe that's how Russia got it's fleet. Either that or the Federation was attempting to develop a phasing cloak in violation of the treaty with the Romulans.

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We need to bomb these otherwise they might use them on us some day.

stryder100

@Satorical: I was thinking Stalker too.

tamoko

It would make a great game level for Gears of War.

tamoko

This would look great in my front yard!
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EVEs_Mako

Damn, hit submit to early. I'm guessing they left everything out like that as part of a treaty. I know the US has to keep planes out in the open in the desert and slowly dismantle them so that the satellites can take pictures of the process. I think that the ICBM sites have to have one silo door removed, and the other slid open to show it's be decommissioned.

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Looks like a steam punk creation.

Joseph

Tarkovsky's Stalker is set against this type of backdrop. Super low-budget philosophical sci-fi with great visuals.

Satorical

Reminds me of how one of the YF-23s, once one of the most advanced aircraft flying, was stuck out on a corner of a parking area at Edward AFB and just sat there for a few years with no attention at all after the F-22 was selected.

Jeb_Hoge

Well there's your problem. W/o the barrel, the artillery isn't as effective.

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The last picture is great. Amazing that Soviet technology, a ship that can go through a rock wall.

AlexTheSane

beautiful

Con Seannery

I like, but it is amazing how easily stuff like this gets forgotten after it is all said and done. They even had that memorial, it looked very shoddy and could use some attention.

danatoth

@UrIt: Agreed. Steampunk's got nothing on this.

As for violent ghosts, I believe that's called tetanus.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

it really is quite beautiful, very picture-esque

UrIt

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Xavoc

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Xavoc

@Satorical: Get out of here Stalker.

It's amazing how both the game and the film capture the creepiness of the environment and yet still make it beautiful, just like it really is.

david3800

The running commentary below the photos is almost as entertaining as trying to figure out what all of that rusted crap once was.

Xavoc

@dingus: Where is the creepy G-Man?

b0bcat

awesome, any copper up there? lol

kemosabee

@Tjoez: Sorry, I keep getting Star Trek Voyager and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle characters mixed up in my head.

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@UncleArgyll:

There is a missing pic of a KhTZ-16 on Cinder blocks.

UncleArgyll

Thats not an abandoned base. Its the front yard of the russian equivalent of Southern United States Redneck.

UncleArgyll

Did't their mothers teach them to clean up after they got done playing

n00nickn

The ship front is pretty cool. Good to know the Russian teleportation program never got any further. The story about the guy who lost his butt because it ended up in the rock when the ship teleported in was pretty tragic. At least he survived though. 137 sailors lost when all they had tried to do is teleport the ship 50 meters to the left.

citizensmith

Crushed Car, RodHenge, and a boat that was in a wall because Riker disobeyed a direct order.

schrosa

Wow, truly amazing, those pictures gave me an empty feeling of how the world is going to end up...

RockNRollBeaver

Paintball anyone?

chrisaroz

slightly reminds me of Pointe du Hoc when I was there over the summer...only this place doesn't have the MASSIVE craters and still has the guns in place. Very cool. Just imagine a paintball game there!

genpetahhhh

Google Earth link?

MichaelScrip

There's actually a lot of bunkers and gun batteries stuff like this dotting the coast in San Francisco as well. Fort Funston in the SW corner has some pretty big concrete fortifications creeping out of the dunes and cliffs that look like old Dharma initiative setups. The guns are gone but you can still find shell casings and random equipment.

Duke

Why do some of the cannons have the barrels cut off? Some of the barrels are still in place while others were just cut off what gives? Were they sold for scrap or something?

ab3

in soviet russia, base abandons you

Daytodaz3

that is bad ass

exer881

Good thing it dont work, someone could blow themselves up out there if they did. Pretty sight, though.

chocoflier