The Duga over-the-horizon-radar is widely known and many Chernobyl tourists visit this place at their day tours in the zone. What is less known, is the huge computer center connected to the radar where thousand people worked with processing all the information Duga received. (more…)
This time we are in Adolf Hitler’s bomb shelter for his train, one of two in this area. This one is called the bunker in Konewka and is today a museum. Have a look! (more…)
Of course, Cluj-Napoca has its own war cemetery. Let’s make a visit to the final rest for soldiers from both world war one and two in this Romanian city. (more…)
During the Cold War, Sweden had a large number of military warehouses deployed deep in the forests. In the event of war, the defense could easily continue even if the cities were severely bombed. However, a warehouse of this size is unusual. (more…)
There are very exciting things in the forests around Chernobyl. Duga was super secret “over-horizon radar” that would detect nuclear missiles from the US already at the launch. Join a tour of the powerful abandoned construction. (more…)
Once a missile facility that protected the Soviet Union against all possible military threats. Walk into this area without permission before the year 1995, may have resulted in many years in prison. Today the place is abandoned. Now we enter the traces of rocket pads and rooms for radar surveillance! (more…)
Abandoned military bases are always exciting. Military Base 48296 was located in western Ukraine and trained until the year 2006 domestic forces subordinated to the Ministry of Defense. Today the place is abandoned, in addition to some watchdogs to watch out for. (more…)
Exhibition of the year, the museum of the year. These are some of the awards that Air Force Museum in the Swedish town of Linköping received. This museum offers the visitor an authentic environment with a lot of scenes from Sweden during the Cold War.
Aeroseum in Säve, north of Gothenburg, offers you access to the previously top-secret cavern. Here you survive a nuclear attack and may also see large parts of the Swedish military aviation history.
In former East Prussia, the traces of World War II are always presented in the forests. Mosquitoes, ticks, and flies nowadays guarding the place where Himmler’s bunker was, but that’s no deal breaker when it comes to finding some remains.