VirtualGlobetrotting: Maryland: Aberdeen

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Aberdeen Proving Grounds Test Track
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
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Aerdeen Proving Grounds tests vehicles for the military. This base has over 41 miles of test tracks. Test vehicle have included Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Humvees. Probably tanks too.

Violet Ripken's House
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By: mlc1us.
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Violet Ripken, the 74-year-old mother of Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., was abducted at gunpoint from her Harford County home and returned there unharmed, according to authorities, who were searching for a motive in the bizarre kidnapping.

Underwater Explosion (UDEX) Test Facility
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
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This is the Underwater Explosion Test Pond used for testing full scale underwater structures (submarines?).
Further to the ESE is the much smaller Briar Point Test Pond used for UDEX testing of surface models.
Picture of Briar Point Test Pond
http://www.dt.navy.mil/sites/uerd/briarpoint.html

280mm Field Gun, "The Atomic Cannon"
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
Part of the US Army Ordnance Museum collection

Large squadron of A-7 Corsair IIs in Aberdeen Proving Grounds boneyard
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.

K-5 "LEOPOLD" 280 mm/11 inch railroad gun "Anzio Annie"
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
Part of the US Army Ordnance Museum collection

Damaged airliner
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.

Navy MK III, 16-Inch Coast Defense Gun
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
Part of the US Army Ordnance Museum collection

Aberdeen Proving Ground Craters
ry0ohki (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: ry0ohki.
Not quite sure what these are, but I believe they are craters in the mortar testing area? Although the size of them makes me think its something more? Anyone else know for sure?

Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (ABCDF)
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From Wikipedia:
The Edgewood Chemical Activity (abbreviated ECA) was a U.S. military site located in Maryland that stored chemical weapons. Since 1941, the U.S. Army stored approximately five percent of the nation's original chemical agent in steel ton containers, at the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground. Construction of the Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility was completed in 2002, and agent destruction operations began in April 2003. Destruction was completed in February 2006, with 1,622 tons (1,472 metric tons) of agent destroyed. This facility used neutralization followed by bio-treatment to destroy mustard gas agent (HD) drained from ton containers. As of 2006, ABCDF personnel are currently working to safely close the facility.

Russian aircraft at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.

Cal Sr. Yard
A miniature replica of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, complete with a replica miniature B&O Warehouse, has been home to the annual Cal Ripken World Series. The Stadium is named for Cal Ripken Sr, the father of Cal Ripken Jr and a long time Orioles coach.

Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium
Home of the Aberdeen IronBirds

Boeing OC-135 "Open Skies"
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.

Chemical Agent Storage Yard (CASY)
photog (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: photog.
The Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility (CDTF) is a five-building complex located at the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

C-54 Skymaster at Aberdeen Boneyard
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.

Eastern bloc armor and missile launchers at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Looks like mostly Russian BMPs in this thumbnail.

C-130 Hercules at Aberdeen Boneyard
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.

Russian MI-24/25 Hind Attack Helicopter in the Aberdeen Proving Grounds

Jagdpanzer IV (Sd.Kfz. 162) & Jagdpanther (Sd.Kfz. 173)
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.

C-130 Hercules

US 44,000 Pound Bomb, T12

British WW I Whippet and Mk IV Tanks
http://www.ordmusfound.org/whippet.html
http://www.ordmusfound.org/markiv.html

M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank

US 155mm Field Gun, M1 "Long Tom"

Large Helicopters at Aberdeen Proving Ground

Helicopters at Aberdeen Proving Ground

Phillips Army Airfield
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

C-17 Globemaster III

Jagdtiger (Sd. Kfz. 186)
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.

Panther tank (Sd.Kfz. 171)

Small Helicopters at Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Amtrak station
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Aberdeen Station is a train station in Aberdeen, Maryland on the Northeast Corridor. It is served by Amtrak's Northeast Regional and the MARC Penn Line. The station was originally built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad approximately in 1898, and inherited by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad. The current station is a modern structure built in 1943 by Lester C. Tichy for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and located at 18 East Bel Air Avenue at the intersection of Pulaski Boulevard (US 40) and West Bel Air Avenue (MD 132). It contains a 1960s-style pedestrian tunnel, with one of the entrances located at the former north station house. It also contains a pedestrian bridge built in 1982. Aberdeen was also served by an 1886-built Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station along what is now the CSX Philadelphia Subdivision just north of this one on West Bel Air Avenue.

Tank entering bushes

Paintball fields
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.