DShK barrel for sure . Probably used for inspection purposes to make sure the rounds are at proper length - neck diameter and head spacing is correct .
Of course the kids would know lol Idk what is it with kids in different countries but they’re like rats they just explore places better than I did in my childhood
Well, I been working with Albanian people and they explained to me when communism ended all the weapons arsenal were opened for everyone and everyone gets guns and ammo for free
I would’ve loved to been there when that happened I wonder if you can buy one of those bunkers today that would be cool by a bunker full of old equipment
No really, in 1997 the government ponzi scheme failed and took down the economy, As a result the citizens raided all government assets, including armouries.
Fantastic explore! What an amazing site. That's not a Grenade launcher though, it is in fact - as others have suggested - the Barrel for a DSHK Heavy Machine Gun. Basically, the Soviet equivalent of the Browning M2 Fifty Cal, but with a slightly longer cartridge. The Bullet that you pulled out the little blue rack is what it would have fired (after being filled with lead and shaped a bit, of course). The cases in the Barrel are 7.62x54r, used by that time primarily in the SVD (and variants such as the Romanian PSL) and PK series machine guns such as the PKM and the Vehicle mounted PKT. 7.62x54r is one of, if not THE longest serving military cartridge, being designed by the Russians in the late 1800s (1894 maybe?) and is still being used to this day in just about every corner of the globe. There's some trivia/context, if anyone gave a hoot 👍
Thanks for the explanation Nick ! I'll have to adjust the title. Next time you have to join when we go to an ammunition factory ;) There also supposed to be finished bullets, but we were pretty exhausted and didn't see them on first sight.
I would certainly love to see something like that, for sure. Actually, having just watched your Belarus Exclusion zone video, you've fired one (DSHK)! Even without the live rounds, still an incredible explore. Thanks for taking us along ☺ Keep up the great work my dudes ✌️
Yes, I own a sweet M44 Mosin Nagant in 7.62x54r built in Tula in 1948. Pristne except for the arsenal testing rounds a real safe queen, but that round is total manstopper. I took my friend and his gamer son shooting, and he knew it from call of duty or some shyte, but the first time he pulled the trigger and felt all that recoil, then the lights came on and he finally understood the reality of shooting a rifle in the real world. He had a pretty good sized bruise the next day after shooting that beast. Love those guns from that era and region. I had a Mitchell's Yugo mauser 8mm that I really regret selling.
I think it would be really cool if one day you could somehow visit one of these abandoned places with a person that actually worked/lived there to get a real insight of how everything was
Such a person would be hard to find. They would be in their 50s or 60s now and probably not too keen on the idea of sneaky around at night to go back there.
What's really amazing about alot of old bases and especially old factories, those machines that are so well intact probably still work if u just did a bit of minor maintenance. Machines from the 1900s usually the earlier half will basically last forever. I've worked on cncs from the 40s and they will still work another 100 years from now.
Das waren fabriken für Waffen und Munition und diese fabriken waren als Reserve da wen etwas mehr Waffen oder municion gebraucht wird dann waren diese fabriken da
The longer they sit the longer they have a chance to bond. It's the reason that even black powder gets stronger with age. If you mill black powder for about 13 hours it will be good enough to explode instead of ignite add about 35 years and it will ignite like flash powder
My thoughts exactly. My father in law worked for an explosives factory. He has many stories of people who died, for example just by walking over certain chemical residues which then blew up.
DShk for sure . Probably used for inspecting loaded rounds to make sure the OAL / over all length is correct and check the neck diameter of the rounds .
In one of the cities on the south Albania, in front of our high school was one of the main entrance of the main underground hospital. In time’s of war the bunkers capacity was 2-3k patients . And that was in the middle of the city, one of the many bunkers that you can still find in the mountains around the town.
That was cool as hell!when I was a kid in the 70s/80s, you could explore the wwii bunkers on sandy hook New Jersey like this. Now they have them all secured off. I wish we had cameras back then
The metal "grating" found in many places here is the scrap produced by the punch presses used to begin the process of case or bullet forming. This scrap re-use is indicative of ammo plants around the world, especially those producing steel cases/jackets.
You guys should really consider using respirators in locations containing old munitions. In the event of dust kicked up for whatever reason, be it wind gusts, falling debris, you don’t want any of that entering your lungs.
Exploring the Unbeaten Path wear gloves as well and have de-leading wipes. Lead exposure is a massive risk when dealing with ammo, I’m a gunsmith, I know firsthand.
these sites should be evaluated and renovated for use by the local communities. they are well constructed and in some cases would make excellent locations for environmentally responsible light manufacturing centers. underground and out of sight the noise and pollution of normal manufacturing could more easily be controlled to the benefit of local communities.
@@darrenmarchant1720 Seems like a great idea, except that remediating all of the toxic residues so that the place is safe to work in would probably be prohibitively expensive. No OSHA in the Warsaw Pact -- if your work environment killed you, nobody cared, you were easily replaced...
Guys, the grenade launcher was a actually the barrel of 12.7mm heavy machine gun. The yellow powder was Sulphur which is a component of explosives manufacturing, a lot of the powders/solidifying liquids you were walking through are the individual ingredients to make the russian equivalent of PETN, which is an extremely powerful contact explosive used in the manufacturing of amouered piercing incendiary/explosive rounds, you were actually stood in the room with the finished product that was ready for pouring into the back of the projectile you picked up off the machine, the ones that had a hollow base that you looked in before placing back on the tray. Its very sensitive you guys were very lucky not to initiate it. If you'd dropped anything on it of any weight (a torch, debris etc) with all the other decaying explosive components laying about, you'd likely have leveled the place and turned your selves into mist. You were very fortunate. They have guards for a reason, im sure a like on TH-cam is not worth causing not only your own deaths, but that of whoever was there that night, and no doubt that of firefighters that would probably died fighting the blaze, plus the destruction of any near by dwellings and there occupants. Avoid these types of factory, if not for your own sake, but for that of the many people who are around them.
I'm guessing the owners/security of these yards let them in for cash and give a tour If they entered a place like this illegally their faces would be covered, if they had any brains anyway
@@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing I'm guessing they wouldn't have had to break in and avoid security if that was the case. There two very lucky guys walking out of there.
@@bazzmcfury9550 they are filming a video with added drama and entertainment, not letting the truth get in the way for more views Nothing wrong with that l guess but it does get cheesy sometimes
STRAIGHT OUT OF FALLOUT 3. NEW SUB. THIS IS EXACTLY THE THINGS I LIKE TO SEE!! ITS SOO BIG!! SOO MANY ROOMS! IM A MACHINIST AND MOST OF THOSE MACHINES LOOK FAMILIAR BUT SOME OF THEM ARE LIKE "WHAT IS THAT?!?" LOOKS LIKE ALOT OF THOSE MACHINES ARE FULLY FUNCTIONAL. NOT ALL OF THEM BUT MOST.
Those machines were hardly useful even 35 years ago. My dad was working there in that factory dealing with this machines,struggling to keep them going . They were obsolete even by 1980s standards. I was 6 when this tunnel was completed
My wifes coworker is from Albania. Hes told me many stories about growing up there. Incredible video. Glad you never got caught. Keep up the great work.
When I was stationed in Germany in the eighties we heard about an underground Nazi arms factory that some US military officers were allowed to visit by invitation. It was said that these were still powered up with working bathrooms etc. and all of the machinery was sitting there in perfect condition and was kept clean by a team of caretakers. Why? Well, that was back before the Soviet Union fell and the story was that the Germans wanted to keep the capacity to manufacture weapons available to them in the event a new war with Russia kicked off. Don't know if it's true. I did meet an innkeeper in Bavaria though, who, impressed with my German, invited me to see a secret arms collection he had in a huge hidden room beneath his inn. He had about 1,000 square feet of basement space full of German, Russian, British, and US war paraphernalia. He had every type of weapon used by soldiers during the twentieth century right up to an anti-aircraft machine gun that was huge. He even had a perfectly preserved Willys jeep hidden in a room beneath the barn. He was powering it with a Mercedes engine because he didn't want to wear out the original Jeep motor.
The machines I’m seeing lead me to believe this wasn’t just an ammunition factory, it looks like in the metal storage area they have barrel stock that can be machined into rifle and other small arm barrels. I’d love to have some of these lathes in there.
This is my country I'm from albania wow🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 Can I get a heart you ...made that bunker look scary AF (Nuk eshte aq e frikshme)that's Albanian😆
I'm chill'in near Green Bay, Wisc in the USA and I didn't want this vid to end. Just mind-blowing they had ANOTHER factory below. Wonder if the underground one was just a spare and never really got used since WWIII never happened...or hasn't happened YET...
That opening shot of Albanian mountains with the sprawling city below ... Just wow! What a stunningly beautiful country. If anyone knows what specific region this is, that would be awesome?
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Hey! Greetings from America. Thank you for taking the time to respond. I've been following you for awhile now, and I must say that you do some of the best exploration vids out there. Your experience and subject knowledge is bar none. Your video quality is excellent. You're videos aren't bogged down with ads. You don't sensationalize your videos with click bait titles, or supernatural mumbo jumbo, and your attitude is super endearing. You'll have a viewer for life if you keep this up😉
The room with the DsHK barrel is used for loading of 12.7mm projectiles with incendiary, tracer or explosive compounds. There is a blast wall between stations to protect the operators
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I had fun watching even caught a case of the creeps... Soon as the hairs on my neck go back down I'm gonna hit the sack dream of killing communists.
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I have seen them but they were not as cool as seeing where they made the ammo and guns underground. Think how many people worked there making bullets .
alright i saw the notification and i thought you were kidding, that is an incredible find, and id really have to fight myself to not take it home and restore it.
I live next door, in Macedonia. I remember in 2006-07 there was an explosion in military ammunition bunker or storage in Albania. The sound wave travelled c. 250 km to us. Loud as f.... I couldnt imagine the force... Also, if you`re asking yourself where are the "whole" or finished bullets, ask the albanian mafia :)))
I wonder if that place was actually bought, for candy money, by the mafia after the communist region had collapsed. It would explain why all the machinery is still there and nothing was put up for auction by the government later. But then again, I doubt the guys would have tried to go back another night if they had encountered a stockpile of drugs in the bowels of the facility.
You gentlemen do some of the best explorations I view. But dam man it straight up trespassing when you see multiple cars parked at the facility and come back at night. You guys have a set of balls the size of a dump truck. I commend your efforts.
This is freaking amazing guys i am a huge historian geek especially of stuff like this. Its disturbingly wonderous 😍 thank you very much for the content guys keep at it
Just subscribed. Have watched 5 or so episodes of yours today and really like the personality you bring to your explores. There are a lot of other channels that over-react or over-hype mundane stuff for the camera, one I just watched they stole photo negatives, tried to kick in a door and then preached the urbex creed "take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints" haha, unless you need those precious views! Just THANK YOU for being real and treating your explores with respect!
An amazing place, there are very few of them left in such preservation and such an atmosphere. From such a place it would be good to make a museum of the Cold War.
It’s funny for me to see these abandoned machines in places like this.. We had very similar machines in my high school metal shop that are still used! Lol
The French left NATO and traded plenty with the Warsaw Pact. The French policy was they wouldn't get destroyed protecting US interests, so fuck them. They were good to the USSR as long as it kept respecting them. In case of war, the French military would rush, invade western Germany and set forces behind NATO but away. French Armée de l'Air would enforce a no fly zone over France and fly with nuclear weapons. The French government would tell the USSR to stay far of their borders or they would nuke Moscow not caring anything else. A soviet violation to French sovereignty would be seen as an existential threat to the French state and would be met with nuclear response. If the Soviets didn't care and attacked, France had enough ICBMs to smoke western Russia and Ukraine major cities and industrial sites. They would smoke them all and accept to be gone in a soviet nuclear response not caring, they rather go fighting that letting any other power occupy them like in WWII. The soviets had the same doctrine basically, they wouldn't allow anyone to ever set a toe inside their territory to suffer like the nazi occupation, they would rather nuke them all and die in a glorious nuclear mushroom than let NATO invade them. So the soviets understood the French and kept good relationships.
@@Renard380 They sell to anyone who pays. That is business. You really think Iran will make nukes to shoot first... come on!. Iran lost hundreds of thousands of people to chemical attacks and they never used them. One or a few nukes are nothing to other countries. Iran will never do anything with them because it buying all the numbers to get vaporized in minutes and all their leaders would die. Nukes are only insurance, once you got them other countries will stop being aggressive and won't invade you.
England and sweeden too. You see those big artillery shells that they showed. As long as the money was they don't give a shit to who they selling and for what they are going to use it.
With so many videos with abandon underground bunkers and gold mines, it's crazy how much "stuff" is left behind and are hidden underground. Maybe not the toxic gold mines but many of these bunkers could be used for several things, just cost to much to renovate. There has to be a good reason us humans want to be on the surface, even though underground would be a lot less energy used. This bunker looks pretty recent and clean compared to most things floating around youtube. Glad too see things not vandalized , I hate seeing places destroyed for no reason.
Thanks. This one is pretty well guarded! Speaking of underground places. I think you’ll like these too. 😌 Amazing underground power station I discovered. th-cam.com/video/K3zOlfQvbTk/w-d-xo.html Best underground mine I’ve ever seen th-cam.com/video/nG9K-a0occE/w-d-xo.html
I wish the narrator would be like. Hey guys this right here is a loading machine built in 1950. This was used to load the powder into the casing ..... Instead scary music and soft talking. Awesome video, I hit subscribe and like!
Really interesting! If you asked someone they might just tell you it was OK to look inside. So may bunkers! Who did they think was going to attack them, everybody? The days of Enver Hoxha!
@@lalilali5688 Great response. I was in Lubdijana when Tito passed away. What a country! We used to explore the Maginot fortresses in the 70s & 80s, The police would give us a flat tire if found! Lots of fun just like today. 👍🏼
We were and are surrounded by enemies who genocided and still try to genocide us from our lands Lands were Albanian live are full of underground rescourses
So what are they doing there during the day that requires dogs, security, and people to be around? Because when we see you there at night it looks like nothing has been touched sine 1992.
It was interesting to see the amounts of large cracks on the walls and floors in the concrete. Shows that there is settling and that maybe the concrete wasn't installed well.
Those look like barrels in that room with the desk that haven't been turned down yet like they are just barrel stock which is really cool and those are probably worth a lot of money because they are usually very high quality steel
If only the walls could talk about the going ons there. This is the best video I’ve seen that is preserved. Absolutely amazing. Can I please recommend IKS exploration TH-cam channel. They explore abandoned WW2 sites around the south of England, especially Dover in Kent. It’s worth checking their TH-cam channel out.
Nice ! Keep an eye on this channel too. A fallout shelter is coming up and also a very secret and untouched bunker in pristine condition (nobody explored it before)
And to think that like this ammo storage may be hundreds in Albania bro..i remember when we was little kids hanging out and playing in places like this while people shooting in air just for funn and some to kill somebody..insane memories bro...i remember one time my big brother coming home with some granades sks ak and some other guns .. guns that today as we talk some people still have them in their houses..
I’m seeing lots of lathes, but I don’t think I saw one ammo manufacturing press the entire time, so it seems to me that you stumbled on a firearms manufacturing facility that happened to manufacture ammunition components and store them, but not load them.
All of the tech you see is based on very early eighties design machining. There is no computer control at all for production. Which meant that if they tried to update the production hardware, they'd have to clean out the whole plant and start over again. This whole facility was designed to be used as 'once only', with lots of machine operators working in different shifts. There was no chance this was a plant that was going to be updated for more modern production. Also, notice the oil staining around all the machining equipment. This has been sitting for along time with no consideration as to get it running it again. The funding might have come from Russia but the tunnelling of this place is an American blueprint design for soft stone architecture. Each floor is load bearing and weighted for machine vibration loading for each level. I'd be really very surprised if each level was operating at the same time, maybe it was but this sort of design operated at only a certain occupancy level for each working floor. Maybe some Albanians would like to give some details as to this base's level of operation.
According to primary information I got the factory was in production day and night, 24 hours around the clock, never stopped until 1991. The plan was produce ammunition to provide a continuous war from the north,east South and West for around 10 years non stop and still have left overs.
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just did man and commented. good job man
Do you take recommendations for abandoned places?
czesc
you need to explore with shiey
@@edgarbleikur1929 Always :)
it's not a granade launcher tho, it's a barrel to a DShK machine gun.
I thought it was the training version which has a gun barrel installed. There kind of rare to find.
Milton: Thank you for pointing that out. I was going to leave a comment t about how it's a barrel due to the front sight and muzzle brake
DShK barrel for sure . Probably used for inspection purposes to make sure the rounds are at proper length - neck diameter and head spacing is correct .
Quantum Mechanic: Still wrapped in wax paper and cosmoline, maybe a spare barrel for their test rig
actually it looks like a recoiless rifle but i could be wrong
I‘m sure if you asked the kids in the village to show you around they would proudly show you all the hidden spots.
Ahahah yeah true
Of course the kids would know lol
Idk what is it with kids in different countries but they’re like rats they just explore places better than I did in my childhood
People get very suspicious if you talk to kids as a man, but would be cool to see what they know.
@@bsherman8236 right, those rascals are smart
@@tony_5156 yes indeed
Well, I been working with Albanian people and they explained to me when communism ended all the weapons arsenal were opened for everyone and everyone gets guns and ammo for free
I would’ve loved to been there when that happened I wonder if you can buy one of those bunkers today that would be cool by a bunker full of old equipment
Like finding a golden ticket to Willy Wanka's chocolate factory. I want one of everything now!!
No really, in 1997 the government ponzi scheme failed and took down the economy, As a result the citizens raided all government assets, including armouries.
@@trevormurphy7041 Many have tried, but the sea of corruption washes those dreams away.
Trevor Murphy no you wouldn’t brothers were killing brothers. You could get killed just for looking at the wrong person. It was all out anarchy
Fantastic explore! What an amazing site. That's not a Grenade launcher though, it is in fact - as others have suggested - the Barrel for a DSHK Heavy Machine Gun. Basically, the Soviet equivalent of the Browning M2 Fifty Cal, but with a slightly longer cartridge. The Bullet that you pulled out the little blue rack is what it would have fired (after being filled with lead and shaped a bit, of course). The cases in the Barrel are 7.62x54r, used by that time primarily in the SVD (and variants such as the Romanian PSL) and PK series machine guns such as the PKM and the Vehicle mounted PKT. 7.62x54r is one of, if not THE longest serving military cartridge, being designed by the Russians in the late 1800s (1894 maybe?) and is still being used to this day in just about every corner of the globe. There's some trivia/context, if anyone gave a hoot 👍
Thanks for the explanation Nick ! I'll have to adjust the title.
Next time you have to join when we go to an ammunition factory ;)
There also supposed to be finished bullets, but we were pretty exhausted and didn't see them on first sight.
I would certainly love to see something like that, for sure. Actually, having just watched your Belarus Exclusion zone video, you've fired one (DSHK)! Even without the live rounds, still an incredible explore. Thanks for taking us along ☺ Keep up the great work my dudes ✌️
@@ANGRYP1R4TE Haha by coincidence the first thing I did after your comment was to look at that gun I fired in Belarus :)
Yes, I own a sweet M44 Mosin Nagant in 7.62x54r built in Tula in 1948. Pristne except for the arsenal testing rounds a real safe queen, but that round is total manstopper. I took my friend and his gamer son shooting, and he knew it from call of duty or some shyte, but the first time he pulled the trigger and felt all that recoil, then the lights came on and he finally understood the reality of shooting a rifle in the real world. He had a pretty good sized bruise the next day after shooting that beast. Love those guns from that era and region. I had a Mitchell's Yugo mauser 8mm that I really regret selling.
Same with a Mosin Nagant, there's been a bunch of Guns chambered in 7.62x54r, tried and true
I think it would be really cool if one day you could somehow visit one of these abandoned places with a person that actually worked/lived there to get a real insight of how everything was
Exactly part II. .
Such a person would be hard to find. They would be in their 50s or 60s now and probably not too keen on the idea of sneaky around at night to go back there.
It would be nice if the United States turned out the same way this s*** is lame
What's really amazing about alot of old bases and especially old factories, those machines that are so well intact probably still work if u just did a bit of minor maintenance. Machines from the 1900s usually the earlier half will basically last forever. I've worked on cncs from the 40s and they will still work another 100 years from now.
iron metal
there are no CNCs from 1940s... closest you might find would be old punch card machines. And those were more likely 50s and 60s.
Das waren fabriken für Waffen und Munition und diese fabriken waren als Reserve da wen etwas mehr Waffen oder municion gebraucht wird dann waren diese fabriken da
Man I would love to have just one of those metal lathe machines
You can get pretty cheap used chucker lathes online. Just gotta shop around. Peace ☮️
Curtis Mcquiston you and me both
@@carrythetorch33 buying one might be easy but moving it around is a different thing
Curtis and Zack, you sand me three.
They might not be anymore good, they look too rusty
I suspect you don't fully appreciate how dangerous old, decayed explosives can be.
Yeah i don't think they realize how volatile those are
Yep. Sketchy asf.
The longer they sit the longer they have a chance to bond. It's the reason that even black powder gets stronger with age. If you mill black powder for about 13 hours it will be good enough to explode instead of ignite add about 35 years and it will ignite like flash powder
Smokeless powder degrades quickly once exposed to air. So you're wrong.
My thoughts exactly. My father in law worked for an explosives factory. He has many stories of people who died, for example just by walking over certain chemical residues which then blew up.
It's a barrel for an heavy machine gun ( dshk or so ) , not a grenade launcher ;)
Definitely DSHK, confirmed by the muzzle brake 👍 still a serious cool find though!
DSHK barrel CONFIRMED
@@ClepperDCS Thanks mate !
DShk for sure . Probably used for inspecting loaded rounds to make sure the OAL / over all length is correct and check the neck diameter of the rounds .
That would have made a good wall hanger. 👍
the spooky background sounds are not needed at all. makes it super commercial. the place speaks for its self.
Not at all. The sounds are excellently chosen and set the scene perfectly.
Agreed
If you go up in North Albania, specifically Kukes . You will find the "underground" city of the city itself. Kukes.
Can I buy any old TT there?
@@vetvendosje-kosov-gjenev9986 yes
@@monkiboi4434 sa bojn?
In one of the cities on the south Albania, in front of our high school was one of the main entrance of the main underground hospital. In time’s of war the bunkers capacity was 2-3k patients . And that was in the middle of the city, one of the many bunkers that you can still find in the mountains around the town.
Ku ishte kjo?
@@Winterwalker442 esht ne Vlore,
@@johnpali5894 ku fiks
The characters at 9:22 is "硝化棉无烟药", which means "Nitrocellulose" Smokeless powder
it says in the label.
That was cool as hell!when I was a kid in the 70s/80s, you could explore the wwii bunkers on sandy hook New Jersey like this. Now they have them all secured off. I wish we had cameras back then
The metal "grating" found in many places here is the scrap produced by the punch presses used to begin the process of case or bullet forming. This scrap re-use is indicative of ammo plants around the world, especially those producing steel cases/jackets.
Thumb up for Albanians 👍🏻👐🏻🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Damn, this has to be the coolest abandoned bunker I've ever seen so far, Would love to vist this one. Also great video as always man! 👍
You guys should really consider using respirators in locations containing old munitions. In the event of dust kicked up for whatever reason, be it wind gusts, falling debris, you don’t want any of that entering your lungs.
Yeah, we have some ! In some future locations we have to use them !
Exploring the Unbeaten Path wear gloves as well and have de-leading wipes. Lead exposure is a massive risk when dealing with ammo, I’m a gunsmith, I know firsthand.
@@TokioHotelFan943, in this case it also appears to be primer manufacturing as well, so chalk mercury onto that list.
these sites should be evaluated and renovated for use by the local communities. they are well constructed and in some cases would make excellent locations for environmentally responsible light manufacturing centers. underground and out of sight the noise and pollution of normal manufacturing could more easily be controlled to the benefit of local communities.
@@darrenmarchant1720 Seems like a great idea, except that remediating all of the toxic residues so that the place is safe to work in would probably be prohibitively expensive. No OSHA in the Warsaw Pact -- if your work environment killed you, nobody cared, you were easily replaced...
if it isn't covered in dust, get ready for a bust.
13:28. Those stacked metal rods are barrels. I was hoping they would draw one out to have a look. Some of them still aren't rusted.
uday bhaskar Reddy collectors in the US would love them.
@@guy6054 Yes, they are in good condition and even the equipment.
Back in a day they used some kind of grease to protect from rusting.
@@yymmyyyymmyy2630wow
@@yymmyyyymmyy2630 cosmoline
Guys, the grenade launcher was a actually the barrel of 12.7mm heavy machine gun. The yellow powder was Sulphur which is a component of explosives manufacturing, a lot of the powders/solidifying liquids you were walking through are the individual ingredients to make the russian equivalent of PETN, which is an extremely powerful contact explosive used in the manufacturing of amouered piercing incendiary/explosive rounds, you were actually stood in the room with the finished product that was ready for pouring into the back of the projectile you picked up off the machine, the ones that had a hollow base that you looked in before placing back on the tray. Its very sensitive you guys were very lucky not to initiate it. If you'd dropped anything on it of any weight (a torch, debris etc) with all the other decaying explosive components laying about, you'd likely have leveled the place and turned your selves into mist. You were very fortunate. They have guards for a reason, im sure a like on TH-cam is not worth causing not only your own deaths, but that of whoever was there that night, and no doubt that of firefighters that would probably died fighting the blaze, plus the destruction of any near by dwellings and there occupants. Avoid these types of factory, if not for your own sake, but for that of the many people who are around them.
I'm guessing the owners/security of these yards let them in for cash and give a tour
If they entered a place like this illegally their faces would be covered, if they had any brains anyway
@@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing I'm guessing they wouldn't have had to break in and avoid security if that was the case. There two very lucky guys walking out of there.
@@bazzmcfury9550 they are filming a video with added drama and entertainment, not letting the truth get in the way for more views
Nothing wrong with that l guess but it does get cheesy sometimes
No security around. They were drunk from rakija. I would take a thing or 2. ..
The yellow stuff could also have been picric acid. Kinda outdated, but iron curtain never throws anything away.
STRAIGHT OUT OF FALLOUT 3. NEW SUB. THIS IS EXACTLY THE THINGS I LIKE TO SEE!!
ITS SOO BIG!! SOO MANY ROOMS!
IM A MACHINIST AND MOST OF THOSE MACHINES LOOK FAMILIAR BUT SOME OF THEM ARE LIKE "WHAT IS THAT?!?"
LOOKS LIKE ALOT OF THOSE MACHINES ARE FULLY FUNCTIONAL. NOT ALL OF THEM BUT MOST.
Those machines were hardly useful even 35 years ago. My dad was working there in that factory dealing with this machines,struggling to keep them going . They were obsolete even by 1980s standards. I was 6 when this tunnel was completed
Fun fact about those first few bunkers you guys filmed. Those were used to film a series on Netflix. (the rain)
That’s pretty cool
My wifes coworker is from Albania. Hes told me many stories about growing up there. Incredible video. Glad you never got caught. Keep up the great work.
Now I know where they still find that stuff for ebay.
Ow I’m sure people make a living out of that😂
Thanks for showing, so I don't have to. Be careful though: this ain't the country where you want to be caught for spying in a weapons factory...
Well that wowed reaction where they found the hole after setting the camera seemed genuine
"OMG we have found a Grenade Launcher"
Grenade Launcher : 😲 in 12.7MM 🤣
Ahahhahaah
When I was stationed in Germany in the eighties we heard about an underground Nazi arms factory that some US military officers were allowed to visit by invitation. It was said that these were still powered up with working bathrooms etc. and all of the machinery was sitting there in perfect condition and was kept clean by a team of caretakers. Why? Well, that was back before the Soviet Union fell and the story was that the Germans wanted to keep the capacity to manufacture weapons available to them in the event a new war with Russia kicked off. Don't know if it's true. I did meet an innkeeper in Bavaria though, who, impressed with my German, invited me to see a secret arms collection he had in a huge hidden room beneath his inn. He had about 1,000 square feet of basement space full of German, Russian, British, and US war paraphernalia. He had every type of weapon used by soldiers during the twentieth century right up to an anti-aircraft machine gun that was huge. He even had a perfectly preserved Willys jeep hidden in a room beneath the barn. He was powering it with a Mercedes engine because he didn't want to wear out the original Jeep motor.
Great story/info sir!
Great Video!
In Albania you can find more places like this, but these places are very well hidden
thermal take some of these places are gangster controlled rape, snuff and secret prisons.
I could use a few lathes... Man i wish i could loot some of those tools and get them working again. Those 12.7 barrels are pure gold here in America
The machines I’m seeing lead me to believe this wasn’t just an ammunition factory, it looks like in the metal storage area they have barrel stock that can be machined into rifle and other small arm barrels. I’d love to have some of these lathes in there.
Lot of these machines look like they'll start back up ! That's how well preserved they are .
Well made machines
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Can I get a heart you ...made that bunker look scary AF (Nuk eshte aq e frikshme)that's Albanian😆
Shqiptar hesapi a tqi skemi frik nga bunkeret e enverit po kta e bjn tragjedi
@@fortnitearmy9861 😂
Amazing ! I don't think I've ever seen an urbex of a factory with so much equipment.
Thanks for checking out mate :) For a military place it's invredible how much equipment is left !
That is, your videos are amazing!!! I am surprised that you have only 177.000 members...
Spread the word :)
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Hahaha !
Yes, the Albanian army doesn’t like it either!
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Most of those machines has red numbers marked. Those numbers written looked quite new. Like if they had taken inventory
I'm chill'in near Green Bay, Wisc in the USA and I didn't want this vid to end. Just mind-blowing they had ANOTHER factory below. Wonder if the underground one was just a spare and never really got used since WWIII never happened...or hasn't happened YET...
Thanks for watching ! There are a lot of interesting places in the USA aswell !
Bob, you are the man for finding the wildest crap and most of the time the locations are spray paint free, extra fucking cool!
Thanks! Most of the time we fail, but the ones which work out make it worth it.
Such a rich history and a brilliant explore.
That's definitely a DShK heavy mg barrel
Smart to keep your voice down cause even sound waves can and would mess with an unstable blasting cap and level the whole complex
That opening shot of Albanian mountains with the sprawling city below ... Just wow!
What a stunningly beautiful country.
If anyone knows what specific region this is, that would be awesome?
We’re landing at Tirana airport :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
Hey! Greetings from America.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
I've been following you for awhile now, and I must say that you do some of the best exploration vids out there.
Your experience and subject knowledge is bar none.
Your video quality is excellent.
You're videos aren't bogged down with ads.
You don't sensationalize your videos with click bait titles, or supernatural mumbo jumbo, and your attitude is super endearing.
You'll have a viewer for life if you keep this up😉
This is probably in Polican, Skrapar region.
This is Poliçan , Scrapar County,
i do
We have 24 Big Bunkers like that in Albania 😉
Send me the address only to explore. I love this thinks
Si pak thua 24 🤣🤣
Amazing location guys, must be the best bunker so far!
It is ! Some other cool ones coming up :)
Perfect zombie film location ..... really interesting .
Those "empty shells" you were playing with were primed.
New subscriber here! This channel scratches an itch I didn't know I had! Well done! High quality content and cinematography!
That was a fascinating place...Another great video...thanks
Thanks for watching :)
The room with the DsHK barrel is used for loading of 12.7mm projectiles with incendiary, tracer or explosive compounds. There is a blast wall between stations to protect the operators
Well protect the rest of the operators from the other operators error.
Yes boys one of the best yet !!! Love your channel been following fornsome time now ✌
Thanks for watching! Will try to upload more of these epic explores😎👊
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I had fun watching even caught a case of the creeps... Soon as the hairs on my neck go back down I'm gonna hit the sack dream of killing communists.
Probably one of the coolest videos I have seen. Good work men !
Thanks! Have you seen some other episodes of us? We went to abandoned space shuttles, submarines, etc.
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
I have seen them but they were not as cool as seeing where they made the ammo and guns underground. Think how many people worked there making bullets .
You should check the japan stuff too
Watched it over 3 times
alright i saw the notification and i thought you were kidding, that is an incredible find, and id really have to fight myself to not take it home and restore it.
I live next door, in Macedonia. I remember in 2006-07 there was an explosion in military ammunition bunker or storage in Albania. The sound wave travelled c. 250 km to us. Loud as f.... I couldnt imagine the force... Also, if you`re asking yourself where are the "whole" or finished bullets, ask the albanian mafia :)))
I wonder if that place was actually bought, for candy money, by the mafia after the communist region had collapsed. It would explain why all the machinery is still there and nothing was put up for auction by the government later. But then again, I doubt the guys would have tried to go back another night if they had encountered a stockpile of drugs in the bowels of the facility.
Would be interesting to know why Bofors AB products were there. I'd like to hear the reason for that.
For war
You gentlemen do some of the best explorations I view. But dam man it straight up trespassing when you see multiple cars parked at the facility and come back at night. You guys have a set of balls the size of a dump truck. I commend your efforts.
This is freaking amazing guys i am a huge historian geek especially of stuff like this. Its disturbingly wonderous 😍 thank you very much for the content guys keep at it
Thanks for watching ! Saw some of the other military objects?
I am very proud and happy that you featured my country and especially my city on your video...
Keep going like that...
Good luck!
Amazing exploration and story of history!! So glad you guys filmed it and shared it with us! Ga zo door =D
Bedankt voor het kijken ! :)
Just subscribed. Have watched 5 or so episodes of yours today and really like the personality you bring to your explores. There are a lot of other channels that over-react or over-hype mundane stuff for the camera, one I just watched they stole photo negatives, tried to kick in a door and then preached the urbex creed "take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints" haha, unless you need those precious views! Just THANK YOU for being real and treating your explores with respect!
die ouwe sovjet rommel is toch echt geweldig.
So old as you're mom.
Definetely it's a location that I would like to see from up close! Great work guys! 👊
Watching you go through this place reminds me of old Brixmis teams.
Dushka 12,7mm barrel. The muzzle break is
unmistakable. Being in service since 1938, is an icon like the AK.
Sick!
Thanks ! Heb nog wel meer militaire dingen op de lijst staan :)
An amazing place, there are very few of them left in such preservation and such an atmosphere. From such a place it would be good to make a museum of the Cold War.
Yes, hopefully it will one day!
in albania every place is like this because pepool dont have intrest in such things
It’s funny for me to see these abandoned machines in places like this.. We had very similar machines in my high school metal shop that are still used! Lol
Very Original! Exploring some strange and wonderful places! Thanks guys!
Spiertz, AMYSA, it seems that the French didn't mind selling machinery to their hypothetical enemies.
The French left NATO and traded plenty with the Warsaw Pact. The French policy was they wouldn't get destroyed protecting US interests, so fuck them.
They were good to the USSR as long as it kept respecting them. In case of war, the French military would rush, invade western Germany and set forces behind NATO but away. French Armée de l'Air would enforce a no fly zone over France and fly with nuclear weapons. The French government would tell the USSR to stay far of their borders or they would nuke Moscow not caring anything else. A soviet violation to French sovereignty would be seen as an existential threat to the French state and would be met with nuclear response. If the Soviets didn't care and attacked, France had enough ICBMs to smoke western Russia and Ukraine major cities and industrial sites. They would smoke them all and accept to be gone in a soviet nuclear response not caring, they rather go fighting that letting any other power occupy them like in WWII.
The soviets had the same doctrine basically, they wouldn't allow anyone to ever set a toe inside their territory to suffer like the nazi occupation, they would rather nuke them all and die in a glorious nuclear mushroom than let NATO invade them. So the soviets understood the French and kept good relationships.
They sold a nuclear reactor to Iran so nothing surprises me anymore with them...
@@Renard380 They sell to anyone who pays. That is business.
You really think Iran will make nukes to shoot first... come on!. Iran lost hundreds of thousands of people to chemical attacks and they never used them. One or a few nukes are nothing to other countries. Iran will never do anything with them because it buying all the numbers to get vaporized in minutes and all their leaders would die.
Nukes are only insurance, once you got them other countries will stop being aggressive and won't invade you.
England and sweeden too. You see those big artillery shells that they showed. As long as the money was they don't give a shit to who they selling and for what they are going to use it.
@@Argentvs They invade you to take over the nukes if you are a little country.
With so many videos with abandon underground bunkers and gold mines, it's crazy how much "stuff" is left behind and are hidden underground. Maybe not the toxic gold mines but many of these bunkers could be used for several things, just cost to much to renovate.
There has to be a good reason us humans want to be on the surface, even though underground would be a lot less energy used.
This bunker looks pretty recent and clean compared to most things floating around youtube.
Glad too see things not vandalized , I hate seeing places destroyed for no reason.
Thanks. This one is pretty well guarded! Speaking of underground places. I think you’ll like these too. 😌
Amazing underground power station I discovered.
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Best underground mine I’ve ever seen
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Feels like something straight outta Half-Life 2.
Wow that was a whole professional firearms manufacturing plant. That's probably where my sks came from. That's absolutely incredible.
16:18 - Not grenade launcher. This is barrel of USSR machine gun "DSHK", cal.12,7x108 mm.
my friend, that is rpg-7
I wish the narrator would be like. Hey guys this right here is a loading machine built in 1950. This was used to load the powder into the casing ..... Instead scary music and soft talking. Awesome video, I hit subscribe and like!
This is perfect adventure and amazing and dangerous .ı wish ı could see this like abandoned places ,bunker etc.we discovery with you , thank you .
You’re “grenade launcher” in the video is actually the barrel of a DSHK, basically the Russian equivalent of a .50 cal m2 browning machine gun.
Really interesting! If you asked someone they might just tell you it was OK to look inside. So may bunkers! Who did they think was going to attack them, everybody? The days of Enver Hoxha!
You taking it shallowly today, but get in his shoes....
@@lalilali5688 Great response. I was in Lubdijana when Tito passed away. What a country!
We used to explore the Maginot fortresses in the 70s & 80s, The police would give us a flat tire if found! Lots of fun just like today. 👍🏼
We were and are surrounded by enemies who genocided and still try to genocide us from our lands
Lands were Albanian live are full of underground rescourses
Man you guys are Krazy you are risking everything, love the video bro
Thanks, you should check out some other video’s in the playlist “most dangerous adventures” 😄
Yea definitely it's so interesting to watch about some rare things like this
Awesome location, you nailed it.
I wonder if we have anything in Australia you could explore?
Cheers
Ben Murphy yeah. Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Pine Gap lol
Lithgow small arms factory. Still in operation, but i wouldn't be surprised they have the same set up.
Some of these old explosives can get really unstable in conditions like this.
Do you guys mark your path as you go or just remember how to get out? Seems like a maze down there.
So what are they doing there during the day that requires dogs, security, and people to be around? Because when we see you there at night it looks like nothing has been touched sine 1992.
Unfortunately I didn’t find out.. perhaps they have an active part at the left side or so...
You got some media attention mates! Found this vid at AD/HLN News. Thumbs up!
It was interesting to see the amounts of large cracks on the walls and floors in the concrete. Shows that there is settling and that maybe the concrete wasn't installed well.
Those look like barrels in that room with the desk that haven't been turned down yet like they are just barrel stock which is really cool and those are probably worth a lot of money because they are usually very high quality steel
A great explore guys, lot of stuff in that place, loved watching it.
No greanade launcher, its a barrel for DSHK 12.7mm, since you found the bullets their .50 cal, and you also found the 7.62x54, great find!
That's where you want to be during a zombie apocalypse so you can make your own ammo lol.
Wouldn't take much to get those Machines working again .
The scale of that bunker not including wring and machinery. Cant help get the feeling that previous wars are WELL planned in advance.
Im really interested in what was in the boxes where the grenade launcher was
It's not a grenade launcher, it's a dshk heavy machine gun barrel
If only the walls could talk about the going ons there. This is the best video I’ve seen that is preserved. Absolutely amazing.
Can I please recommend IKS exploration TH-cam channel. They explore abandoned WW2 sites around the south of England, especially Dover in Kent. It’s worth checking their TH-cam channel out.
Nice ! Keep an eye on this channel too. A fallout shelter is coming up and also a very secret and untouched bunker in pristine condition (nobody explored it before)
Hoxha really loved bunkers.
He was bunkers
As Albanian i can't Say many things but, this Is Just a small part of military secret Activity in our country
And to think that like this ammo storage may be hundreds in Albania bro..i remember when we was little kids hanging out and playing in places like this while people shooting in air just for funn and some to kill somebody..insane memories bro...i remember one time my big brother coming home with some granades sks ak and some other guns .. guns that today as we talk some people still have them in their houses..
wow, thats quite a munitions factory..
I’m seeing lots of lathes, but I don’t think I saw one ammo manufacturing press the entire time, so it seems to me that you stumbled on a firearms manufacturing facility that happened to manufacture ammunition components and store them, but not load them.
There were bullets inside this factory. I wanted to film those but had troubles when I wanted to go back 1 day later🥴
All of the tech you see is based on very early eighties design machining. There is no computer control at all for production. Which meant that if they tried to update the production hardware, they'd have to clean out the whole plant and start over again. This whole facility was designed to be used as 'once only', with lots of machine operators working in different shifts. There was no chance this was a plant that was going to be updated for more modern production. Also, notice the oil staining around all the machining equipment. This has been sitting for along time with no consideration as to get it running it again.
The funding might have come from Russia but the tunnelling of this place is an American blueprint design for soft stone architecture. Each floor is load bearing and weighted for machine vibration loading for each level. I'd be really very surprised if each level was operating at the same time, maybe it was but this sort of design operated at only a certain occupancy level for each working floor. Maybe some Albanians would like to give some details as to this base's level of operation.
According to primary information I got the factory was in production day and night, 24 hours around the clock, never stopped until 1991. The plan was produce ammunition to provide a continuous war from the north,east South and West for around 10 years non stop and still have left overs.
Can you put a link to those flashlights, they look very powerful, great video as always guys 👍
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I have this one.. It's the best and most decent I ever had ! :D (X7R Marauder)
“Grenade Launcher found” its a barrel to a heavy machine gun
seems like the barrel of a ptrd 41