I had the opportunity to visit the ANA Central Forces Depot, where they keep their obsolete weapons. There were at least four warehouses full of old weapons, spare parts, and comm gear. It was like exploring a museum.

I recognized many of the weapons, but not all. Most of them were old Warsaw Pact weapons. There were hundreds of British Enfields, Russian SSPh machine guns, and many others I couldn’t ID. I saw some older Enfields, a stack of US M1903 rifles with British markings, US M3 “Grease Guns”, lots of Chinese rifles, and more. Most of them were stacked on top of each other on shelves and heaped with dust. It was a collector’s dream.

There was one lonely M1 Garand. Unfortunately it was too dark and the rifle was too rusty and dirty for me to make out the manufacturer or serial number.

There was one warehouse where they had a bunch of larger weapons like AA platforms, heavy machine guns, mortars, recoilless rifles, etc. Some of those they cleaned up and sorted for display.

Another item of interest was an old Enfield that some Afghan had decorated with studs similar to how they used to do Jezail rifles. This one was more modernized and had stickers too.

More pics are here.

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