Željava Air Base

Bosnia and Herzegovina / Federacija Bosna i Hercegovina / Izacic /
 airport, military, abandoned / shut down, former air force base
Cold war military airport codenamed "Object 505". The runways extend deep inside the mountain.

Željava Air Base, situated on the border between Croatia and Bosnia under Plješevica Mountain, near the town of Bihać in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the largest underground airport and military airbase in the former Yugoslavia and one of the largest in Europe.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Željava_Air_Base
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Coordinates:   44°49'26"N   15°45'50"E

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  • IT IS YUGOSLAVIAN ARMY OF ZAGREB CITY YU
  • Ex yugoslav airbase ( with underground facility-cavern for protection of aircrafts ) Now is destroyed and has no military purpose.
  • This was the biggest underground airbase in former Yugoslavia and was a home for the 124.LAE (Fighter Aviation Squadron) and 125.LAE equipped with MiG-21 Bis fighter aircraft and 352.IAE (Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron) equipped with MiG-21R reconnaissance-fighter aircraft.
  • Yugoslav People's Army was one of the largest and most powerful in Europe and the disintegration of Yugoslavia is not to blame people, and I'm sorry that the world has so many bad comments about Serbia, because the truth we only know that we lived in Yugoslavia and the whole of his life fighting for a better tomorrow and for his people and all that is built a few decades people have been able to break up a couple of years. Serbia has lost the most dissolution of Yugoslavia and the greatest injustice inflicted on the Serbian people and all the crimes that took place during the war were attributed to the Serbian people and what actually not true, of Serbian suffering and difficulties is not speaking as if the war there were no Serbian victims of the tragedy and the truth known only to those who have been here most of the world has accepted what they were served by the U.S. and other forces and stepped on opposite direction. I still maintain that I am Yugoslav
  • I em proud that i was part of ex Yugoslavija....
  • The base was built as part of SFRY military strategic concept of self-reliament. The base costed 2-3 fighter and reconnaissance regiments. According to the plans, the staff and units were prepared to fight up to 1 month in complete isolation and under ABC weapons threat. In reality, the base played zero role in what was then called wars in former Yugoslavia, the rest of units were evacuated in the spring of 1992.
  • As a Serb who belongs to genocide nation you have only to lie and that is the only choice you have.Serbs are only problem in Balkan.
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