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Chernobyl: Duga 3 ‘Steel Yard’ Radar – April 2015

February 18, 2016

Chernobyl & Pripyat, Military Sites, Ukraine

History (from wikipedia) Duga 3 was was a Soviet over-the-horizon (OTH) radar system used as part of the Soviet ABM early-warning network. The system operated from July 1976 to December 1989. Two operational Duga radars were deployed, one near Chernobyl and Chernihiv in what was then called the Ukrainian SSR (present-day Ukraine), the other in eastern Siberia. The Duga systems were extremely powerful, over 10 MW in some cases, and broadcast in the shortwave radio bands. They appeared without warning,…

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Explore #123: Former RAF Coltishall air base, Norfolk (Permission Visit) – February 2015

September 6, 2015

Adam X

Military Sites, United Kingdom

Something a little different with this next report – some photos from a location that I actually had permission to photograph! My visit to RAF Coltishall was organised by an explorer friend who works for a local photography company. As a result, whilst the visit was technically open to the public, our Norfolk-based gang of explorers snapped up pretty much all of the available tickets so it ended up being very much an urbexers group outing! History (abridged and amended…

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Explore #121: Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria – January 2015

August 29, 2015

Adam X

Bulgaria, High Stuff, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Leisure Sites, Military Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

I’ve got another one of my XXL supersized reports for you this time – the tale of three days spent up a snowy mountain top in the wilds of Bulgaria to see this little beauty… There were a few sore heads and bleary eyes the morning after our boozy arrival in Plovdiv and my late night explore of an ancient Roman amphitheatre, but we loaded up our hire cars and drove through the uninspiring Bulgarian lowlands towards something far more…