The Netherlands are littered with 'abandoned' fortresses. Most were built between 1880 and 1910 against possible Prussian agression but obsolete by WW1 because of the invention of the aircraft. Many if not most have been restored and are now museums, restaurants, art galeries, wineries or in use by companies in general. Most can be visited, even for free, and the surroundings are also often protected nature areas. Absolutely worth visiting.
True. And also loads of "abandoned" fortresses from WOII that are being dug up and restored. And even fortresses from the age of Napoleon. In Wijk aan Zee there are many so called "Lunetten". Raised ground on wich kanons where placed. They are found, ... because of stones around them with numbers. They got rid of the trees and other overgrowing things so people can recognize them. Hollond is doing a great job by making them into museums and other things. So the history remains insteady of just destroying it.
FYI: The jets mentioned in Hungary marked with bumblebee on their noses carry it as the insignia of the former Bumblebee Squadron of the (current) Hungarian Defence Forces 59th Szentgyörgyi Dezső Tactical Flying Regiment.
13:00 common myth the Maginot line work perfectly the Germans didn't fight through it, they went around it the french didn't build significant fortification in or behind the low countries as a respect to their neutrality and so as not to threaten the low countries themselves
The Germans engaged them just enough to make the French think that they just might come through there . The German construction of their HUGE railway cannons was specifically made to break thru the Maginot line but I am not sure they were even deployed there .
Mallows Bay is in my "BACKYARD"...... I have lived in Maryland all my life (55 years now) and never knew this was here! Thank you for mentioning this site! I know where my next weekend adventure will be!
@8:55 There is nothing top secret about the location, it's the Landevennec Graveyard in Brittany. As for the ship mentioned, it's Colbert, indeed an AA cruiser, which was disarmed for years even before she landed there, having been a museum ship in Bordeaux for 14 years. She was scrapped in 2016. Basically this graveyard is a temporary mooring place for ex-navy ships awaiting the breaker.
A mushroom farm in Kailua was once ammunition magazines for 8" shore batteries after the Pearl Harbor attack. The Navy acquired the Mokapu peninsula from the Kaneohe ranch in 1939.
14:42 As a Dutch person, I have heard Dutch words being....shall we say, mispronounced. But what you did to "Fort Ellewoutsdijk" was hilarious, as was your stumbling through the word "Westerschelde"!! I can honestly say I have never heard either of them pronounced like that before. Thank you for that, I needed a good giggle. 😋😋🤣🤣🤣
I can only imagine what military facility or piece of equipment is out there in some wooded area or out of the way place. I've seen in some publications how there are literally tons and tons of abandoned equipment in the south Pacific islands from WW2 with some American aircraft being salvaged and restored for display and even to fly once more. Keep these videos coming.
11:45 nowdays the area is empty. With time slider of Google Earth you can see when these cames here and what is the current situation. (Hungary, Pápa you will see the airport) Bumblebee is the logo of the squadron. This is not a stand by or emergency fleet: these planes are out of service.
Ok I’m gonna take a wild guest at those MIG-21s saying that they were out dates planes that were being replaced by the superior SU-25 & SU-28s as for the desert Camo they were probably used in the invasion of Afghanistan by the soviets however I couldn’t find the squadron who flew them. So my best guest is that they were sent to Hungary because they were obsolete but Hungary was in need of Aircraft so it was given to them but never used.
The Maginot line did exactly as designed. The German walls; the two East walls, the West wall, the Atlantic wall and the Gothic wall, were similarly effective. To impede assault allowing mobile forces to manouvre.
the nazis went around the line so it sorta did its purpose however if the Germans didn’t go around it it would have put up a huge resistance that would have cost a lot of casualties
Built in the 1930's,they are not satellite dishes.We had no satellites until Sputnik in the 1950's.Therefore these are radar dished.We had radar by the 1930's,at least the Brits did.
Just a small note, those weren't satellite dishes, they were originally radar dishes, then tropospheric scatter dishes for long range radio communication
Far i have read of the mentioned 4 early warning dishes of RAF Stenigot, 3 were dismantled by 2018 and last one end removed last year but unlike its mentioned the dishes werent the solo survivors of the base, theres a WW2 Chain Home radar tower thats "Grade II listed" and is used still by RAF Aerial Erector School .
Should come and film the Palmerston Follies around Plymouth, a series of 19 forts built to protect Plymouth and the surrounding area from French invasion in Napoleonic times I think 17 are still standing
When did large underground bases become a thing of the past? Underground bases look awesome and provides great protection! Do you think there is a large underground base at Area 51 or what most people say the underground base is at Papoose Lake, the site of S4, on the other side of the mountain from Groom Lake air base?
The scheme on the su-22 and mig-21 were the standard for the 1990s. As the hi-viz chevron. The Döngö or Bumblebee is the squadron marking. The info is out there and easy to search, darlings.
@Sp8kyMuhG8ky Heck yeah. Used for fun, at least. I would love to fly those jets around.. Those things cost MILLIONS of dollars to build and design. Seeing them go from usable to unusable just because of neglect is really sad.
If those French ships still have missiles and actual guns aboard them that work yeah it would be illegal for people to just go playing on them I'm surprised there's not a whole lot of guards around that place
This ship was the C611 Colbert class, participate at the first golf war with is modernasation to Missile Class Cruiser. It was decommissioned in May 1991, translate in museum, that's why it was armed but it's fack armement. In this foutage it was at the ship graveyard in Landevennec. It was dismantle in Bordeaux in 2016. Sad story for a such beautiful ship.
nothing top secret about that “star wars building”…it was the operations center for the base, basically coordinating the response by the aircraft assigned to the base.
Чот вот всё никак не доеду до Тольятти , там ить вход в подводную лодку открыли , ну и так посмотреть , там , много какой техники ( для сохранения территорий существующих государств и , особенно их правителей с холуями ихними ) понавезли
His name was Adolph Hitler, not A. Dolph Hitler, Aydolph Hitler or Aedolph Hitler. It's the same as the "a" in "at". Depo, not Deepo and Semi, not Semiey.
O submarino Soviético a diesel do final dos anos 70 é idêntico ao submarino Alemão TIPO 21 dos anos 40 seja na frente com 6 lançadores de torpedos e arredondado, e na traseira com o leme seguindo a linha da popa; O que só mostra o quão avançados os Alemães eram!
Do people who make these videos not do proper research? The Germans in NO WAY “plowed through” The Maginot Line. They simply went around it to the south & through Belgium. The French put all their fortification towards the North expecting the German Armor to get slowed up in The Maginot Line therefore creating a choke point & it would’ve been 1 of the few higher points of the war at least for the French.
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The Netherlands are littered with 'abandoned' fortresses. Most were built between 1880 and 1910 against possible Prussian agression but obsolete by WW1 because of the invention of the aircraft. Many if not most have been restored and are now museums, restaurants, art galeries, wineries or in use by companies in general. Most can be visited, even for free, and the surroundings are also often protected nature areas. Absolutely worth visiting.
True. And also loads of "abandoned" fortresses from WOII that are being dug up and restored. And even fortresses from the age of Napoleon. In Wijk aan Zee there are many so called "Lunetten". Raised ground on wich kanons where placed. They are found, ... because of stones around them with numbers. They got rid of the trees and other overgrowing things so people can recognize them. Hollond is doing a great job by making them into museums and other things. So the history remains insteady of just destroying it.
Nice comment man
FYI: The jets mentioned in Hungary marked with bumblebee on their noses carry it as the insignia of the former Bumblebee Squadron of the (current) Hungarian Defence Forces 59th Szentgyörgyi Dezső Tactical Flying Regiment.
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13:00 common myth the Maginot line work perfectly the Germans didn't fight through it, they went around it the french didn't build significant fortification in or behind the low countries as a respect to their neutrality and so as not to threaten the low countries themselves
The Germans engaged them just enough to make the French think that they just might come through there . The German construction of their HUGE railway cannons was specifically made to break thru the Maginot line but I am not sure they were even deployed there .
Mallows Bay is in my "BACKYARD"...... I have lived in Maryland all my life (55 years now) and never knew this was here!
Thank you for mentioning this site! I know where my next weekend adventure will be!
Very interesting topic very compelling to watch thank you
@8:55 There is nothing top secret about the location, it's the Landevennec Graveyard in Brittany. As for the ship mentioned, it's Colbert, indeed an AA cruiser, which was disarmed for years even before she landed there, having been a museum ship in Bordeaux for 14 years. She was scrapped in 2016.
Basically this graveyard is a temporary mooring place for ex-navy ships awaiting the breaker.
hell, it has been used by the French Navy for over 200 years to store ships!
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A mushroom farm in Kailua was once ammunition magazines for 8" shore batteries after the Pearl Harbor attack. The Navy acquired the Mokapu peninsula from the Kaneohe ranch in 1939.
14:42 As a Dutch person, I have heard Dutch words being....shall we say, mispronounced. But what you did to "Fort Ellewoutsdijk" was hilarious, as was your stumbling through the word "Westerschelde"!! I can honestly say I have never heard either of them pronounced like that before. Thank you for that, I needed a good giggle. 😋😋🤣🤣🤣
Fort Warden would have been a nice addition to this list
Fort warden is awesome. The history is cool too.
just imagine if someone would buy one of these sights and turned it into an airsoft field.
Imagine some speed softer running through a bunker and accidentally hitting a Implosion button or falling through the roof
Fort Barchon in Belgium is an amazing field, you can actually enter most parts of that bunker while playing
I can only imagine what military facility or piece of equipment is out there in some wooded area or out of the way place. I've seen in some publications how there are literally tons and tons of abandoned equipment in the south Pacific islands from WW2 with some American aircraft being salvaged and restored for display and even to fly once more. Keep these videos coming.
11:45 nowdays the area is empty. With time slider of Google Earth you can see when these cames here and what is the current situation. (Hungary, Pápa you will see the airport) Bumblebee is the logo of the squadron. This is not a stand by or emergency fleet: these planes are out of service.
Ok I’m gonna take a wild guest at those MIG-21s saying that they were out dates planes that were being replaced by the superior SU-25 & SU-28s as for the desert Camo they were probably used in the invasion of Afghanistan by the soviets however I couldn’t find the squadron who flew them. So my best guest is that they were sent to Hungary because they were obsolete but Hungary was in need of Aircraft so it was given to them but never used.
The Maginot line did exactly as designed. The German walls; the two East walls, the West wall, the Atlantic wall and the Gothic wall, were similarly effective. To impede assault allowing mobile forces to manouvre.
There is vallo littorio as well
the nazis went around the line so it sorta did its purpose however if the Germans didn’t go around it it would have put up a huge resistance that would have cost a lot of casualties
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Most Amazing Abandoned Military Objects,especially in Afganistan!
Lul the only thing Joe ever rebuilt stronger than before... a damn terrorist cell shame... thanks liberals..
14:32 i am from the netherlands but never heard of that fortress 🤣
Then inform yourself better: Fort Ellewoutsdijk in Zeeland!
Built in the 1930's,they are not satellite dishes.We had no satellites until Sputnik in the 1950's.Therefore these are radar dished.We had radar by the 1930's,at least the Brits did.
4:26 that is the "joint operations centre" and the walls are only the "shatter protection wall" more is it not
Just a small note, those weren't satellite dishes, they were originally radar dishes, then tropospheric scatter dishes for long range radio communication
Far i have read of the mentioned 4 early warning dishes of RAF Stenigot, 3 were dismantled by 2018 and last one end removed last year but unlike its mentioned the dishes werent the solo survivors of the base, theres a WW2 Chain Home radar tower thats "Grade II listed" and is used still by RAF Aerial Erector School .
Should come and film the Palmerston Follies around Plymouth, a series of 19 forts built to protect Plymouth and the surrounding area from French invasion in Napoleonic times I think 17 are still standing
You call them follies but did Napoleon dare to invade?
I rest my case.
Could you do a piece on abandoned air base called Zeljava, in Bihac?
How can something be the most abandoned? Abandon is abandoned
Hello my friend. Well, yes, what's wrong?
Your title makes no sense, and neither does your response. Derp...
@@robertwhitby5192 “most amazing” abandoned places. MOST AMAZING, not most ABANDONED
The ship at 8:55 was the "Colbert" cruiser n°611, it was no longer in this location, it was scraped in 2016 at Bordeaux. I'm so sad for this beauty.
do you know the spot of the ships?
@@mclwsng1028 it’s easily found online, it has been used as a staging base for ships destined for scrapping for 200 years…
Used to live 30 min for there that place is beautiful and kinda weird
The Cruiser thats mentioned having masurca missiles was scrapped between 2016 & 2017.
Surprised the Duga didn't make it!
The first one looks like a cod zombies map
Radar dishes are not satellite dishes
When did large underground bases become a thing of the past? Underground bases look awesome and provides great protection! Do you think there is a large underground base at Area 51 or what most people say the underground base is at Papoose Lake, the site of S4, on the other side of the mountain from Groom Lake air base?
Well there was a plan to have a bunch of underground bunkers around the US, but Vault Tec copyrighted the whole bunker thing
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If it never fought in Battle it means that it has done its job , it must be considered a successful !
The scheme on the su-22 and mig-21 were the standard for the 1990s. As the hi-viz chevron. The Döngö or Bumblebee is the squadron marking. The info is out there and easy to search, darlings.
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That’s one big submarine
It makes me so sad to see amazing pieces of technology like jets just waste away like that
@Sp8kyMuhG8ky Heck yeah. Used for fun, at least. I would love to fly those jets around.. Those things cost MILLIONS of dollars to build and design. Seeing them go from usable to unusable just because of neglect is really sad.
@@VashStarwind How much are YOU willing to pay for their upkeep?
I've never heard Suffolk pronounced "sawfolk". It's pronounced "suff"-uck"
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Hey, plasma cutters! I use those.
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A lot of retired military bases where used as foundations for college campuses.
yes lithuania is finally recognised.
Wait for the engine place, the sign the guy covered said plasma cutting… I thought nobody knew how to handle plasma without it exploding……
If those French ships still have missiles and actual guns aboard them that work yeah it would be illegal for people to just go playing on them I'm surprised there's not a whole lot of guards around that place
Oh yeah and first
yes yes yes, as always, you are the first video viewer!
This ship was the C611 Colbert class, participate at the first golf war with is modernasation to Missile Class Cruiser. It was decommissioned in May 1991, translate in museum, that's why it was armed but it's fack armement. In this foutage it was at the ship graveyard in Landevennec. It was dismantle in Bordeaux in 2016. Sad story for a such beautiful ship.
This french military boats cemetary is not à secret place, it's in Landevennec in the West of France.
There's an obsolete Soviet submarine in Chatham dockyard Kent England.
the ghost fleet is located at Ship graveyard of Landévennec
the concrete warship?
Ironic. Something intended for destruction became a builder of the ecosystem. It's not a ghost fleet as much as it is a life in Maryland.
to be fair to the french the line wasnt plowed through the germans just went ahead and went around it like when they did the same thing in ww1
nothing top secret about that “star wars building”…it was the operations center for the base, basically coordinating the response by the aircraft assigned to the base.
I live right near the satellite dishes it's amazing looking round there
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00:02:00 Satellite dishes in 1940. I don't think so. There were NO Satellites in any country.
Чот вот всё никак не доеду до Тольятти , там ить вход в подводную лодку открыли , ну и так посмотреть , там , много какой техники ( для сохранения территорий существующих государств и , особенно их правителей с холуями ихними ) понавезли
Where in Lincolnshire are the satellites. I might live near there
Like military stuff is cool to find ww2 bunker
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Satellite Dishes?????????
Soldiers serving on ships ? You sure ?
Haven't you ever heard of Marines?
@@trevormillar1576 yes, but those are not soldiers, as name indicates marines
His name was Adolph Hitler, not A. Dolph Hitler, Aydolph Hitler or Aedolph Hitler. It's the same as the "a" in "at". Depo, not Deepo and Semi, not Semiey.
O submarino Soviético a diesel do final dos anos 70 é idêntico ao submarino Alemão TIPO 21 dos anos 40 seja na frente com 6 lançadores de torpedos e arredondado, e na traseira com o leme seguindo a linha da popa; O que só mostra o quão avançados os Alemães eram!
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Restore it
Do people who make these videos not do proper research? The Germans in NO WAY “plowed through” The Maginot Line. They simply went around it to the south & through Belgium. The French put all their fortification towards the North expecting the German Armor to get slowed up in The Maginot Line therefore creating a choke point & it would’ve been 1 of the few higher points of the war at least for the French.
The French surrendered 🤣🤣🤣 Really? I don't believe it.
French surrender...? Say it isn't so.
Rumour has it that the red and blue sections of the French flag 🇫🇷 are Velcro backed for times of war. 😂🤣
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I MUST ADMIT i am getting very bored with this subject
I CAN OLNEY SAY THANK GOD NONE OF THIS WAS ON MY SIGN ,COULDN'T HAVE PAID FOR ANYTHING ON THE LIST THANKS .
Completely confusing French history obvious that it's written from a USA perspective.
impressionnant reportage🖕
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So much waste, what a shame. If you took just half of the money poured into these war relics we could have completely…… you fill in the blank