10 Cold War Bunkers Beneath Europe You Were Never Meant to Find

10 Cold War Bunkers Beneath Europe You Were Never Meant to Find

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10 Cold War Bunkers Beneath Europe You Were Never Meant to Find

This video is made strictly for educational, historical, and documentary purposes, providing historical context and information about the places and events depicted. The footage and discussions presented do not promote, glorify, or encourage trespassing, dangerous, or illegal activities.

Beneath Europe's runways and mountains lies a secret network of command bunkers, missile posts, and aircraft hangars — built to survive a nuclear war that never came. Carved into rock with blast doors and air-filtration systems, they were meant to coordinate bombers, fighters, and missiles through the end of the world.

From a Yugoslav mountain base built to swallow sixty jets to an East German command post now preserved by volunteers, these are ten Cold War command bunkers buried beneath Europe — and what happened to them when the war never arrived.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 — Intro
0:46 — Drnov, Czech Republic
2:59 — Kolsås, Norway
5:05 — Kindsbach Cave, Germany
7:12 — Comiso, Sicily, Italy
9:18 — Bunker Kossa, Germany
11:26 — RAF Neatishead, UK
13:38 — Wüschheim, Germany
15:46 — Gjadër, Albania
17:52 — Anlegg 96, Bodø, Norway
19:58 — Željava, Bosnia & Croatia

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SOURCES
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Number ten - Drnov, Czech Republic (71st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade command post)
https://www.toulejse.cz/en/tips-for-trips/museums/stredocesky-kraj/kladno/museum-of-the-cold-war-and-air-defense-drnov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_Czechoslovak_People's_Army_at_the_end_of_the_Cold_War
https://aroundus.com/p/3873112-muzeum-protivzdusne-obrany-bunkr-drnov

Number nine - Kolsås, Norway (NATO Allied Forces Northern Europe headquarters)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Forces_Northern_Europe
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_162353.htm
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Allied_Forces_Northern_Europe

Number eight - Kindsbach Cave, Germany (USAFE Air Defense Operations Center)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_Air_Base
https://www.kaiserslauternamerican.com/world-war-ii-history-buried-in-kindsbach/
https://bunkernearme.com/places/kindsbach-cave-bunker/

Number seven - Comiso, Sicily (NATO GLCM base, INF Treaty)
https://infogalactic.com/info/Comiso_Airport
https://grokipedia.com/page/Comiso_Airport
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01426397.2023.2205631
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/04/10/inf-pact-leaves-costly-bases-with-no-mission/2ef3324a-926f-4642-9995-b23d99e02447/

Number six - Bunker Kossa, Germany (NVA command post, Military District III)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/secret-military-bunker-kossa
https://www.sightraider.com/bunker-kossa-a-preserved-cold-war-military-bunker-in-the-gdr/
https://www.deutschlandmalanders.com/der-militaerbunker-bunker-kossa/

Number five - RAF Neatishead, England (ROTOR R3 radar bunker)
https://www.radarmuseum.co.uk/history/cold-war-era/
https://www.thetimechamber.co.uk/beta/sites/military/rotor-radar-stations/raf-neatishead-r3-and-r12-gci-rotor-sector-operations-centre-norfolk
https://grokipedia.com/page/raf_air_defence_radar_museum
https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF31218-RAF-Neatishead-radar-station=

Number four - Wüschheim, Germany (38th TMW GLCM site, now Nature One festival)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pydna_(missile_base)
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Hahn_Air_Base
https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0830/owu.html
https://dsiac.dtic.mil/tag/ground-launchedcruisemissileglcm

Number three - Gjadër, Albania (mountain MiG tunnels)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjad%C3%ABr_Aerodrome
https://dunyanews.tv/en/LifeStyle/484855-In-hidden-mountain-air-base-Albania-stores-MiGs-for-sale
https://sofrep.com/news/albanian-air-force-fighters-hidden-in-mountain-cave-for-decades-are-still-there-and-up-for-sale/
https://www.forgottenairfields.com/airfield-gjader-44.html

Number two - Anlegg 96, Bodø, Norway (mountain fighter hangar)
https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/anlegg-96-1.11799591
https://www.nrk.no/nordland/departementet-gir-800-000-til-fredning-av-_anlegg-96_-_-men-museum-ma-vente-1.13678978
https://issuu.com/bodonu6/docs/flybyen_250x350_1s/s/13878910

Number one - Željava, Bosnia / Croatia border (Objekat 505 underground air base)
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/%C5%BDeljava_Air_Base
https://www.dark-tourism.com/index.php/1247-zeljava
https://www.abandonedspaces.com/uncategorized/underground-airport.html
https://www.exutopia.com/zeljava-airbase-croatia/
https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2023/10/22/secret-cold-war-balkan-bond-base-opening-to-world/97713

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