Weapons Cache found in Serbia

Earlier this month Serbian police discovered a weapons cache hidden inside a buried oil tank. The weapons were found outside a village that was a former stronghold of an ethnic Albanian militia. It is quite impressive how much hardware and ammunition can be packed away in a relatively small space!

Investigative Judge with the Vranje District Court Staniša Mihajlović said that 100,000 bullets, a recoilless cannon, three mortars, six RPGs, three machine gun stands and 21 anti-tank mines were recovered from the tank.

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Hat Tip: MP.net

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20 Responses to “Weapons Cache found in Serbia”

  1. SwissFreekon 29 Aug 2009 at 12:22 am link comment

    Clearly this was just a guy preparing for the zombie invasion. Or the robopocalypse.

  2. Andyon 29 Aug 2009 at 12:34 am link comment

    100,000 ? Price drop on surplus ammo!

  3. Sevesteenon 29 Aug 2009 at 1:00 am link comment

    How long before this picture shows up accompanying an article demanding we close the gun show loophole?

  4. toaster802on 29 Aug 2009 at 1:56 am link comment

    SO that’s where I left that. Boy, is the missus going to be pissed. We had to cut a lot of coupons to buy that stuff up…

  5. Steveon 29 Aug 2009 at 1:58 am link comment

    toaster802, LOL

  6. Turk Turonon 29 Aug 2009 at 2:24 am link comment

    Andy’s right! The discovery of all that stuff could depress prices of surplus ammo.

    That is just a huge cache to fit inside that oil tank.

  7. The Duckon 29 Aug 2009 at 2:35 am link comment

    Wow the guy must have packed sardines for a living, 100K in ammo does not take a lot of space, I know ;-}
    But to get the mines etc in there was a feat in and of itself

  8. CMathewson 29 Aug 2009 at 3:44 am link comment

    Used oil drum=less corrosion. I’m gonna get some 55gal. Tanks from work lol

  9. B Woodmanon 29 Aug 2009 at 6:03 am link comment

    Look at all those ammo cans. They look to be in excellent condition.

    WHEW! How did whoever stuff all that into the tank? Where’s the opening for it all? I hope it wasn’t welded shut (shudder).

    And how was it found?
    The whole thing, beginning to end, would be an interesting story.

  10. Steveon 29 Aug 2009 at 10:10 am link comment

    B, they don’t say how they found it. They were probably tipped off. I mean how else do you find something like that?!?!

  11. james simonson 30 Aug 2009 at 8:04 am link comment

    there is no way that you could pack everything that is shown in that single tank.. it was probably more than one oil tank that was found..

  12. merckywaterson 30 Aug 2009 at 8:27 am link comment

    i don’t see a big frickin sardine can “key” or tab like on my cans!

  13. Fixxahon 31 Aug 2009 at 4:34 am link comment

    Imagine the can opener for the oil tank.

  14. Kenon 31 Aug 2009 at 12:28 pm link comment

    Impressive… He shoulda packed my ruck sack back in the day…

  15. Fredon 31 Aug 2009 at 5:27 pm link comment

    Wow. Looks like he must have been a boy-scout. You know “Be Prepared”. I guess he just didn’t trust the government. A lot of that going around today.

  16. Doubting_Thomason 31 Aug 2009 at 11:07 pm link comment

    Obvious propaganda pic

  17. BrassSlingeron 02 Sep 2009 at 6:03 pm link comment

    I wonder how many caches like these are hiding around the United States. I still want to know how they found that.

  18. Steveon 02 Sep 2009 at 6:05 pm link comment

    BrassSlinger, that size … not many … at least not nearly as many as Ireland!

  19. komradon 04 Sep 2009 at 2:17 pm link comment

    Interesting that they didn’t find any assaultrifles. Just heavy weapons and ammo.

  20. Mr. 2nd Amendmenton 27 Oct 2009 at 6:52 am link comment

    Looks like it’s a bunch of 7.62 X 54R and 7.62 X 39 in the cans, plus all the heavy duty stuff. I guess they haven’t found the other oil drum that has all of the Mosin Nagants, Dragonovs, and AK’s to shoot up all of that, plus the .50 cal MG’s to shoot up all that linked ammo. There’s probably a third oil drum hiding the army that was supposed to use all of that stuff.

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