Radar Offline: Abandoned Secret Soviet Base In Latvia
An abandoned Soviet 'secret city' near Skrunda, Latvia, once housed an advanced radar installation along with apartment blocs er, blocks for base workers. Riga Mortis They called ...
Tag: Cold War
MiGs & Match: Abandoned Albanian Airbase Exposed
Tirana soars wrecks, anyone? The Kucove Air Base in south-central Albania houses dozens of historic Soviet aircraft dating back to the time of the Korean War. Kucove Air Base, built in the ...
Secret Operation: Flightless Aircraft is a Research Station
Anyone peering into a disused F15 hangar at the Cold War-era Soesterberg airbase in The Netherlands might have spotted this bizarre black structure and imagined that it was some kind of secret, ...
Global Warning: The Arctic’s Abandoned DEW Line Stations
Back in the 1950s, Cold War tensions ran high and so did the DEW Line: high above the Arctic Circle, that is. Though many of the original 63 radar stations have been re-purposed or dismantled, many ...
Nuclear Family Housing: Life In a Real Missile Silo Home
Formerly spark plugs of the cold war, dozens of decades-old, decommissioned underground nuclear missile silos are slowly slipping into disrepair and decay. Not all of these relics are destined ...
Ice Cars: In Soviet Russia, the Snow Makes for a Hot Ride
With much of the East coast of the US under a heavy blanket of snow, it's starting to look (and feel) almost like the cold wilderness of Siberia. Luckily for us, spring and summer will eventually ...
