140 Crated Spitfires buried in Burma (Myanmar)?

[Wayne McGee]

This is a familiar subject. I've been involved with discussions on this site concerning the intentional burying of perfectly useable vehicles, aircraft, or equipment simply because that it was perceived as the most cost effective solution at the time. As counter-intuitive as it seems today, I cannot deny that this practice was not an aberration but was actually quite a common practice that I believe was practiced throughout the Commonwealth.
What a concept to discover that a substantial section your GNP could so easily be discarded without even being willing to recover a fraction of the cost thru "scrap value", in fact, incurring the labour costs of your troops being paid hansomly to employ heavy equipment to dispose of cutting edge technology.
It makes me wonder....how many squeaky clean, brand new, Canadian Leopard II's are just below the surface in the countryside of Kandahar?

Cheers

Wayne