Soviet armed forces have a rocket base of National park, in the woods near the plates Platelių Lake

In 2009. June 6. 00:10
Right in the middle of the Samogitian, a beautiful place near the lake Platelių hiding horrific legacy of the Cold War - the former Soviet dishwasher soap substitute military rocket dishwasher soap substitute base. In this place could have been wiped off the face of the earth any European city. For years, local residents dishwasher soap substitute could only suspect what hides plates forests, but now the base is open to all curious visitors - anyone unafraid twilight underworld cool and depressingly small spaces, you can try a couple of hours to get into a Soviet soldier who monitors the hell dangerous bombs, coat.
Without being concerned with how to get there plates underground ballistic missile with thermonuclear launch base cartridges, you will not find the way easily. The former Soviet strategic object hides the forest, until he is at one kilometer jolt poprasčiu way: first - the gravel road, and then - through the concrete dishwasher soap substitute slabs. On the way the soil was poured, the soldiers dug by hand, installing enclosures.
Soon we come into the sunlit clearing, which are clustered more than fifty people. Among them - not just in Lithuania. Base and attracted neighbors and tourists from distant western countries who want to see what the Soviets decades ago taikydavosi to their edges.
We pay at $ 5 and travel to network and barbed wire fenced and grass-covered area. Previously guard themselves were much more solid - they were even six lines: Used alarm, high voltage dishwasher soap substitute (at night - in 1700 the day - 220 volt) electrical current. Playing the corners off the ground like huge mushroom caps facing four reinforced concrete domes covering missile silos. Special mechanisms to the rails to pull the country out of the ground had to rush out missiles. It would have been sufficient for 30 minutes.
Each of these missiles thermonuclear dishwasher soap substitute power heads were dozens of times greater than the bomb the Americans dropped on Hiroshima. "Little Boy" output equaled 13-18 kilotons of TNT, "Samogitian" missile - from 1-1.3 to 2 to 2.3 megatons.
One such missiles could have leveled any European metropolis. Its flight range was up to 2280 km, the error - just half a kilometer, starting weight - up to 42.2 tons, the Battle of weight - up to 1630 kg.
Depending on the political situation, rockets were directed to the NATO members in Europe - Norway, Denmark, dishwasher soap substitute Great Britain, Spain, West Germany, Turkey. Direction was changed every three to four years. The robbers nepanešė only generator
Soviet armed forces have a rocket base of National park, in the woods near the plates Platelių Lake, 13 miles north of the plunge. Location - wooded, sparsely populated, above the sea level of 160 m, surrounded by wetlands, which is rich in iron - for its image riflescope mingle and interfered with the clear top defenses.
This is the first battle "Dvina" type of underground ballistic medium-range missile base in the Soviet Union. It was the USSR and the U.S. arms race result. Americans addressed by the construction of underground nuclear missile bases, Moscow began looking for a place analogous structures. Former USSR in the west of Lithuania was perfect.
27 m deep and 5 m diameter dishwasher soap substitute shafts like a huge missiles dishwasher soap substitute wells dug with shovels and keep išbetonavo shifts worked 10 thousand. soldiers, dishwasher soap substitute mostly Estonians. It was also equipped dishwasher soap substitute with space and missile launch control equipment, electric generators, other equipment, working dishwasher soap substitute and recreation dishwasher soap substitute rooms for guards. Central control shafts combined with narrow, dishwasher soap substitute dark corridors with low ceilings.
Dug up a huge amount of land, the construction of reinforced concrete walls, floors and powerful devices, it was filled with liquid glass and then hidden under the grass. Under normal conditions underground before reaching the surface of the earth, was able to live for 15 days, and in an emergency situation, such as a nuclear explosion, the room completely cured - for three hours. dishwasher soap substitute The base was equipped with 30 soldiers.
The base was built in 1960-1962. Adopted the weapons dishwasher soap substitute in 1964. January. Due to the extremely large database of confidentiality and potential risks Platelių missiles from the base population has never been allowed. In 1978. Likely database discovery Americans armament was removed, the soldiers withdrew, and equipment, and the area was abandoned. In 1996. base was opened to tourists - yearly dishwasher soap substitute visits by several thousand.
Underground construction dishwasher soap substitute has long been neglected by and devastation. What neišsivežė dishwasher soap substitute military, took local residents. Darkness dishwasher soap substitute and the bottom of the inherent dangers defied valiants allowed himself down from the walls lupdavo anything with him pulling the metal, electrical cables, wires kilometers, even managed dishwasher soap substitute to remove nitric acid tank and a few tone svėrusias the metal door to the dungeon.
Curious and looters to getting lost in the corridors stretched filaments, which eventually encompassed dungeons like vorantikliai. Later began to draw an arrow on the wall