ABANDONED Helicopter, Tank & More at AIR FORCE BASE! 

0:33 - Saxon APC - Built for the Cold War, used extensively in Northern Ireland and Iraq. 1:41 - Westland Whirlwind - British licenced and built version of the American Sikorsky Chickasaw. Given the yellow paint scheme, search and rescue variant in service with the RAF. Replaced by the Westland Wessex and later the Westland Seaking...also British licenced and built versions of American aircraft. 3:00 - Probably a decompression chamber 5:07 - Blank shell casing, not a live round. 5:15 - FV432 APC - still alot of them around where you can go and drive them for the day :-D ....also, as already mentioned in the comments, from the layout and the activity, you're probably on a live miltary training area!!

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You guys were on a Military bombing range, not a good place to be hanging around ESPECIALLY when you start hearing jet noise. The bombs were rendered inert. Yellow ring means it used to contain high explosive, but inert means the fuzes were drilled out. The anti-aircraft gun is a 14.5mm ZPU-4. The missile is likely an SA-3 Goa. The bomb with the parachute resembles a Snake Eye bomb but it is something I cant identify. The balute and fin combo in the back is a retarder to slow the bomb down immediately after release so you can drop low altitude and create enough separation from the aircraft to not frag yourself. The altitude chambers you found are sealed and the air pressure is lowered to allow pilots to experience hypoxia symptoms in a controlled environment. Many aviators have been killed due to the disorienting or oftentimes incapacitating effects of hypoxia at high altitude. Guys, I know the allure of military vehicles and structures is exciting but going out to what is almost certainly still an active bombing range is very irresponsible. If a plane comes by and drops a weapon on you there are some very serious consequences, the biggest and most immediate being your deaths. Not to mention that pilot has to live with the guilt of killing a couple of kids for the rest of his life. Keep exploring but stay away from Military facilities.

Just a side note. If I was exploring, found an area with abandoned vehicles and airships with clear signs of projectile impacts, I would think to myself, "Self, you may be standing on an active ATG (Air to Ground) range." With that, I would double time the hell out of there. LOL Loved the video.

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If anybody is wondering about the chopper. That helicopter is what the US Military used in the Korean War. It was the first widely used chopper in combat. It is a Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw/Westland Whirlwind S-55. The one you see here is obviously the British licensed built version. I am a big fan of that helicopter. I made a Battlefield 2 total conversion Korean War mod called Battlefield: Korea and we have this chopper in it. www.moddb.com/mods/battlefield-korea You can see a picture of the one we use in the game here. www.moddb.com/mods/battlefield-korea/images/sikorsky-h-19-chickasaw4#imagebox

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this looks like RAF Upper Heyford. The trucks with the chamber doors were where you used to get qualified for NBC suit up using tear gas. The bombs all clearly say inert and are for loading and unloading practice. The APC, soviet AAA piece, radar van etc were used so ground attack aircraft crews could learn to identify friendly and foe ordinance in fast ground attack passes. Wouldn't mind that AAA piece in my back yard as a restoration project.

Very interesting video! The missile at the end is a testing variant of the Soviet RS-1U (AA-1 Alkali), their first attempt at developing a air-to-air missile before they got the American sidewinder.

That editing at the beginning was awesome! Could you tell me what software you use? Also, I can't wait for the day I find a helicopter, that was unreal..!

"There's gunshots everywhere", lol! That's a gunnery range, that's why all that cool abandoned shit is there. We mainly fired up old deuce and 1/2s and 5 tons on our ranges.

How many times you have to say Jesus Christ

that missile would be in my flat already

The bombs are a training bombs...and the AAA guns...and a missile...the bombs for training range practice...are no explosive in there. I really like your video! They make me remember my time in the war!

It’s so funny when he says ,” Jesus Christ ( in Australian and British accent ) “

Definitely midland lads, Leicester area I'm guessing

any one else hear that 6:15 "eh pass the blunt" XD

LOL...Inert. What does that word mean? Those bombs are training devices, NO FRIGGING EXPLOSIVES. Kez, try a little harder, that "Tank" is an APC- Armored Personnel Carrier.I love it when you civvies, especially in the UK, come across military kit. Everything is blown out of proportion..........

It's RAF North Luffenham, known as St Georges barracks now, and the nearby barracks are still very much active. Those "bombs" are all old inert devices (read: they are harmless training devices)

Found a bullet 😂😂😂😂😂 empty casing from a blank round.

That helicopter looks like a Augusta Whirlwind HAR.10 used for Search And Rescue

uk airfield with soviet missiles, very odd indeed

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hardly a secret - old RAF North Luffenham and the eod school training area

"There's gunshots every where" that's a live range 😂

The entire airfield is used for ariel observation and target identification. Used to be F4, Harrier and a Chieftain tank on the runway. The vacuum chambers are decompression chambers for divers.

Mah boi went viral haha nice mate if my health gets better i might travel back to england soon. First i go to germaby theb maybe to london in february

that AAA that you saw and called a gun: is a 14.5mm MG quad mount

Why do people dislike this?? Whats there to dislike?

It's amazing, how much land that these military bases are on.

2:30 Thats not the RAF symbol, thats the french air forces symbol.

5:30 that ain't a tank it's a bulldog 🤣🤣🤣

8:19 Soviet lightweight air-to-ground missile X-25 AS-10 Karen

Saw something like this before. Old airfield from ww2 ended up being a training base and if the same still belongs to defence dept. If it was a bombing range everything would be shredded by now, All this stuff is redundant and no value now so would be worth scrapping. The bomb casings can make good bells.

I trained there and used to pass the various training aids every day . It now belongs to the Army , but back then it was a training area for the RAF Bomb Disposal .

Thanks Kez for making my day

that's not a tank is an apc plus I know were that is be cure full there is a mine field about 600 meters out

When I grow up I wanna be like you exploring army bases and other abandoned things

Not a tank, but an armored personnel carrier. Finding the ordnance was awesome. The bomb with the parachute is actually a Ballute, it deploys in the air and fills up like a balloon, slowing the weapon. That type of apparatus is referred to as Retarded Fall.

this should be called exploring with "jesusssssss christ"

That is a live firing range....

Reminds me of RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge after the USAF's 81st Tactical Fighter Wing left and the base was closed in 93. (Woodbridge is still being used by the Royal Air Force and Brittish Marines if I'm not mistaken.

I'd easily take with me home that missile and display either in my backyard or bedroom.

This guy sounds like Jason Fox (Foxy) of S.A.S. Who dares wins :P

The amount of "Jesus Christ" used....

A really good idea when dealing with any ordinance is to NOT step on it, or kick it, or pick it up. The things you saw were probably not actually live ordinance since it is unlikely for it to just be sitting in a field where anyone could walk up to it. Still, stranger thing have happened. Depends on if they were dropped and did not go off, or if they were put in place just for verisimilitude.

That missile would look really good in my office lol

Its only a training ground... this guy would get excited at the opening of a packet of crisps

Now start a army..

I would have loved to sneak up on you guy's with a huge stereo and play some war sounds.Nah im just kiddin.If it was me and someone did that i would definitely poop my pants !!! Lol

I think the second tank you saw was a Swingfire. It fired ATGMs and was designed to take out heavily armoured vehicles.

JESUS CRIST

"Jeeeesus Christ!" (x13894698137)

Awesome video the case found at 5:11 is a blank, see the neck where the head seats it goes up to a crimp, could be old training gtound for both ground and air training

It is an inert bomb used for training and practice loading and dropping. No explosives in it. The shell you picked up was a blank shell.

Jesus Christ

JESUS CHRIST is your new catchphrase or what? HAH

I just like how many times he says oh my God lol.

Thank you for sharing this video

jesus christ

The simple on the helicopter is not the simple of the RAF it's the simple of the French Air Force similar but the colors are placed different

Very cool, and I geek out on this stuff as well, but not everything with treads is a tank. That's just an APC that they probably used as a target, and in its actual life was more than likely used as a mobile ops center. Also, all those "bombs" are empty steel shells, nothing particularly exciting.

Scrap helicopter was a Whirlwind and being in yellow was originally Air Sea Rescue. !st veh was a Saxon. Tank was actually 432 armoured personnel carrier although this version looked like a command post. Many of the bombs were inert as written on but some still had detonator cone and not written as inert so I would not be playing around them. Radar vans appear to be old RAF type.

what you call vacum chamber look more to me like pressure chamber for scuba diver that is for diver if they get the bens they repressure them to a pressure of 66 feet deep

can u tells us what country or state it's in

That area for sure is a training area, normally to conduct military training, can be for peacekeeping or ever regular training, you can see the AAA is a russian type(14,5 mm), i got a training in Canada few years ago and the training area follows that kind of scenario.

the 2nd tank isnt a tank. it is a APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) it was mainly used during the korean and vietnam war

At 6:54 u had a anti aircraft gun why didnt u shoot the planes

Do you have to swear so much. Taking the Lords name in vain. Terrible. Couldn't watch with sound on.

6:55 That is an Iraqi ZPU-4 AA trailer. Probably brought back after 1991. In good shape considering it spent most of its existence in the dry desert.

Awesome place and good video. How many souvenirs did you take home with you ? Love to get some of that gear home.

I don't like the way you use the Lord's name in vain

STOP SWEARING!!!!!!!!!!

It's a Westland Whirlwind I believe. I used to work on them in the RAF in the 70s. But it's not an RAF roundel

I love how he’s like omg it’s a tank... no it’s not a tank it’s a APC get it right

u think those tires are big? go to america when we lift our trucks we put way bigger tires on cars

can you stop saying Jesus Christ in vien like holy shit disrespectful to the Lord

Not a tank just an armored personell carrier, the bombs were practice bombs, the bullet u found was a blank cartridge. The gun you found was very cool though a quad 20mm

Nice video dude and how did you find this place lol

I’m pretty sure I know where this is my town where I was born and raised never been over there myself, tried once and got shot at with rubber bullets!

That quote unquote "radar vehicle" is called a jammer and was used to mess up any radar that was trying to find them.

Where is this???

Funny how you stepped around the cluster....EOD misses them sometimes

According to the accent, and the 1000 lb HE, Mk 13, this was in England ^^

That one bomb that looked like it had a parachute is called a cluster bomb and in mid air thouse flaps would open up and drop hundreds of tiny bombs

The vacuum chambers you were lookin at were pressure cabins out of what appeared to be a small airplane with the buildings built around them.

That was an FV-432 armored-personnel carrier, not a tank.

This is so freaking cool

Kez that "tank" couldve been an APC (Armored Personal Carrier) with a AA gun

That was not a tank it's an armored personal carrier. The "Bomb" was inert and used for practice. Other then that very cool place. reminds me of DMAFB down in Tucson.

British Saxon and a French Whirlwind in yellow and those bombs in the last clip were shells that battleships fire from.

Only think that I could think of when watching the shots in the vehicle: quite often the local military will park decommissioned vehicles out for live fire training. That is they shoot artillery and mortar rounds at them. If they didn't know that you were out there..boom.

Where was this?

i was waiting for land mines to go off lol

The Whirlwind (helicopter) appears to have French Air Force markings, not RAF (which have the same colours but the red is in the centre).

amazing how this guy calls everything bombs

The tank was an armoured personnel carrier the bullet looked to me at the short glance like a blank round casing and the bombs looked like dumbey training bomb and if you found a blank round then you where in an area used by the forces including cadets for training.

All those cars with their tailgates up and those jet sounds. Sounds like an RC airplane Club