![]() ![]() I wouldn’t lowball someone with a bunch of tanks, though… Case in point. On top of that, Woods is asking around $85,000-$120,000 for each, although he’s eager to negotiate. Good luck taking it on public roads, too. And before you ask, yes, it’s legal to own a gun tank in Australia, as long as the gun isn’t functional. RELATED: Australia’s Cheapest Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen Now Up For Sale In Perth… But There’s A CatchĮach weighs around 52 tonnes, has a top speed of 35km per hour and guzzles two litres of petrol every 100 metres – so just the trip back from Tambourine to Brisbane would cost around $2,500, The Daily Mail relates. One has been converted to a ‘trainer’ after its turret was blown off: one of only three Centurions constructed by the Australian Army and the only one that still runs, Woods says. Most, however, were returned home for storage, sale, or scrapping.One is a Mk3 Centurion that’s seen a partial restoration, and the other two are Mk5s that have both seen action in Vietnam. military aircraft overseas were not worth the time or money to bring back to the States and were consequently buried, bulldozed, or sunk at sea. Consideration was given to storing a substantial number of airplanes, but the realization that the expense to store them was too great, many needed to be sold or scrapped. Of that number, 21,583 (7.34%) were lost in the United States in test flights, ferrying, training accidents, etc., and 43,581 were lost en route to the war and in overseas operations.įollowing the war, estimates of the number of excess surplus airplanes ran as high as 150,000. ![]() The surpluses included almost every conceivable article and commodity-some of little utility in a peaceful world others in great demand by the civilian populations of the United States and other countries.ĭuring the war effort, the United States alone had manufactured approximately 294,000 aircraft. ![]() Estimates of the value of the probable surpluses have ranged from a low of $25 billion to a high of $150 billion. When World War II ended in 1945, the industrial war machine did not stop overnight. Armored vehicles sit in storage at a U.S. ![]()
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