Revisiting Željava Ungerground Airbase (Photos)

[rox]

Revisited this place today.

 

In short - was a huge Yugoslav underground airbase under a mountain, was blown up with a lot (A LOT) of explosives in 1992 during the war, now there's little more than rubble and charred tunnels.

 

In long, it's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljava_Air_Base
In 2009 we extensively explored the whole complex, which has over 4km of tunnels in total. This trip was a bit shorter and much more artsy photo oriented. We mostly stayed in the large main tunnels that planes would go through, seldom entering the smaller side tunnels that housed generators, workshops, supplies etc.

Would have stayed longer than 4 hours to take much more of these colorful photos, but the dust and soot inside are unbearable and I'm never going back without investing in a proper respirator, not the cheap paper face masks that literally = not having anything in your face.

Asbestos? What asbestos?
PCB contamination? 'Tis but decadent west's propaganda!

























So how much conventional explosives do you need to do this to a nuclear blast door?





 

 

Airplane shaped exit

 

[DD_Arthur]

Reading the Wiki piece it says "lots of land mines" in the area!  

[rox]

That's outside around the runways and on the mountain underneath which this place is. So yeah, outside you don't want to walk off pavement. Still, this place has been visited by people countless times, they even mapped it and there's definitively no mines inside. Just rubble everywhere.

[Jabo]

All very dystopian/post apocalyptic. Neat stuff. Thanks mate. Cool that you have a yen for exploring and places to go do it!

[Sweper]

Very cool Rox. Underground pleasure