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The R-633 bunker was designed to protect the M19. [1] Fewer than 100 R-633 were built. [2]: 225 Where possible the entire construction was to be buried underground, leaving just the flat armoured opening on the roof to fire through. Access to the bunker was by way of a trench.
A Mirage IIIRS in front of an aircraft cavern in Buochs Airport, Switzerland. An underground hangar is a type of hangar for military aircraft, usually dug into the side of a mountain for protection.
Signpost showing directions to the secret bunker. The first military use of the area was in World War II, when a Starfish site was established at Hack Green. Its purpose was to confuse Luftwaffe bombers looking for the vital railway junction at Crewe. A ground-controlled interception (GCI) radar station was added.
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Interior of the military plant The large reactor hall inside the complex. 816 Nuclear Military Plant (simplified Chinese: 816地下核工厂; traditional Chinese: 816地下核工廠) is an unfinished Chinese underground nuclear weapons production facility and the largest man-made tunnel structure in the world. [1]
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The secret site was officially called "Inchindown, Royal Navy Fuel Tanks" and also known as the "Invergordon Oil Fuel Depot". [3] The complex consists of six tanks: five are 237 m (778 ft) long, 9 m (30 ft) wide, with arched roofs 13.5 m (44 ft) high; a smaller sixth tank is of the same height and breadth but shorter. [4]
Scallywag bunkers: geophysical investigations of WW2 Auxiliary Unit Operational Bases (OBs) in the UK; Uncovered: the WW2 'Scallywag Bunkers' that were Britain's last-ditch line of defence; World War 2 secret exposed: Churchill's 'last-ditch' strategy unearthed in secret bunkers; CART Auxiliary Unit Research