M-17 Stratospheric Aerostat Fighter
Today I will tell you about the unique M-17 “Stratosphere” aircraft, whose wings are torn off, the body is disemboweled, and what remains is overgrown...
Military
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“Gomel-30”. Atomic secret of the USSR
Somewhere in the south of Belarus, among the forests of Polissya is a small dot on the map, now called beautiful and peaceful – Zarechie.
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An abandoned nuclear weapons depot
The structure has two entrances, but they are numbered 14 and 15 in order to confuse the enemy.
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Abandoned Soviet Equipment on the Archipelago of Franz Josef Land
In the middle of the last century, on the archipelago were located radio-technical troops of the air defense of the USSR.
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Secret Object “Sphere” or Highly Protected Command Post
Today I will tell and show you a place that is legendary.
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A derelict airfield and a Su-24 bomber aircraft
A partially abandoned air facility. Quite a few protected hangars and taxiway strips.
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An abandoned artillery battery
Today I am going to tell you about a visit to the MB-2-180 coastal artillery turret batteries.
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Abandoned biological-warfare weapons storage facility
For the readers’ information: the site described in the article was abandoned by the military a few years ago.
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Interiors of the abandoned Lun ekranoplan
You can look at it from the outside in this post. Let’s climb inside this ship/plane.
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This Soviet ghost town is only 200 km from the USA
Anadyr-1 is located closest to the ideological enemy The United States of America.
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Underground reserve command post of the Warsaw Treaty countries
In the event of a nuclear strike, the CP had to provide up to 24 hours of complete isolation.
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Flying ship “Rescuer” Project 903
Today I’ll tell you about unfinished ekranoplan, who for many years literally gathering dust in one of the shops of the largest shipbuilding companies.
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Military equipment shouldn’t die this way
During the years of the Cold war military equipment was manufactured in this country in huge quantities.
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A tour of the 419th aircraft repair plant
I first felt intrigued by this place when I was digging through maps on Wikimapia in another search for an airdrome and I saw an...
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Chernobyl-2
One of the most exceptional and secret sites in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is the object named Chernobyl-2.
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The Soviet Umbrella Corporation
Almost 45 years on the godforsaken island in the Aral Sea there was a Soviet Center for Testing biological weapons.
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Abandoned Lun ekranoplan
Lun, the first in the family of military missile-carrying ekranoplans weighing 400 metric tons, was put into service in 1987.
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Derelict Soviet bomb shelter
Beneath one of the building of some research institute a rather spacious underground bomb shelter is hiding.
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Abandoned space communications station
A few dozen miles on foot through the snow. A barely walkable path winding through the woods. Our destination, the place we have come such...
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An abandoned air defense base
Today’s post is about the remains of air defense hardware on Kildin Island.
