Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 October 2026

PanzerMuseum East

I visited this museum in Denmark last September.  It was something of a random find as I had no idea it even existed until Mrs G spotted a sign for it on the E20 motorway.  We were eastbound en-route to Copenhagen at the time but made time to call in a few days later when we here heading west.  As a bonus, the museum had it's own camping field - ours was the only van there that night!
The privately owned museum is mostly filled with Warpact kit - the owner's idea was to collect the vehicles which would have been trundling around Denmark in the event of the Cold War becoming excessively hot.
I've been meaning to post these photos for ages.  
SA-4 reload transporter.
'Long Track' radar.  It does in fairness have very long tracks.

FROG-7 TEL vehicle - ZIL-135 chassis
M-1931 122mm gun.
Mi-24 Hind
Polish Srat-660 truck.  All of the vehicles are in excellent (probably working) 
order, complete with all the original fittings and equipment.

East Germany's finest - Wartburg 353
The less fine Trabant Kubel, in DDR border guard livery

SA-2 Guideline - just like Airfix used to make.
Roco Minitanks display - this looks like the sort of diorama which used to feature in Roco catalogues.
SA-4 Ganef launcher
side view of the FROG-7
mobile field hospital
Polish ambulance

A 'proper' tank?  PT-76
MT-LB with 'Big Fred' radar
DDR IFA W50 truck

Czecho Tatra lorry
A real tank at last! T-55AM2

A bigger tank - T-72
A high level view
Polish paras with a UAZ-469

 A rare non-Warpact vehicle!  A Bedford RL, late of the Danish army, with a very 
different cab top to the British versions.  This was the start of the collection.
BRDM-3 with Spandrel AT missiles

BMP
Probably my favourite AFV of the day - Czecho m53/59 SPAA 

Czech soldiers
BTR-60
DDR motorcyclists