CHILLING new photos show Europe’s largest underground airport and military base that was built to survive a direct hit from a nuclear bomb.
Constructed in the 1960s under a shroud of secrecy, the Zeljava Underground Airbase has been left decaying within a hollowed-out Balkan mountainside for over two decades.
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Also known as Objekat 505, the ambitious military project is nestled inside Mount Pljesevica, situated on the border of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
It burrows two miles beneath the mountainside with a maze of twisting tunnels like an underground city that has been since reclaimed by nature.
Zeljava Airbase was completed and operational in 1968, and the facility was destined to play a vital role in Yugoslavia’s early warning radar network.
Similar to today’s NORAD…
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