Airfield ZELJAVA
Monument to the human's ingenuity (...and stupidity)
Airfield now Pljesevica-slope
Memory to Robert Facebook (LYBI Željava) exYU AIR FORCE equip.     LYBI dioramas  
CONTROL TOWER
-the newest scheme which is completed and changed with data and photographs thanks to LupusREBEL
.............................................................................................................................(retired member from the 1st brigade "Tigers" of the Croatian Army).
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Solar lamp which was placed by LupusREBEL on this antenna column represent the highest symbolic of his visit to this place.

Few more panoramic pictures from forest on the slope of Pljesevica mountain.




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Upper station of the elevator, metal "cork" from stuff up material
 
 
Elevator shaft, recorded from the lower station of the elevator, on the top metal "cork" is visible

 


Lower station of the elevator where was the main explosion:
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This video show passage from 124.th Fighting SQDN gallery through the corridor to the lower station of the elevator:

 

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The look on the left side of the window
Window of the control tower today


Window of the control tower today


The look on the right side of the window
   
Window detail with movable armour plate
Burned interior of the CT-today
The look through the control tower window before
The look through the control tower window before
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(1) The doors which lead from CT interior to passage toward terrace
(2) Passage
toward
terrace


(3)
Ventilation shaft
CT-->passage

   
(4)Burned chair in the passage
Part of the ventilation system in passage
(5) The look on the CT entering doors

Waste-paper-basket, he didn't burn out!
(6) Coffe cooker(?) and cleaning equipment(!?)


(7) local room in the
passage

(8) Armoreud doors on the exit passage-->terrace

(9) Ventilation above the armoured doors
 
   
     
   
(10)Terrrace with no floor(!)
The look on the terrace before the entrance 3
The look on the terrace before the entrance 3
The look on the terrace before the entrance 3
   

(11) The look on the wall behind which is AFC
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from before


Very similar look
from before

Very similar look from before
On the terrace of the AFC-a (26.10.1989.)
sit:
- colonel general Anton Tus
- Dragutin Zelenovic, member of exYU presidency
- colonel Pejic Borislav,
stand;
- major-general Zivan Mircetic.
Source of photo;
-->Cyber Fulcrum (forum RV i PVO)
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(1)

(2)


()

   
<---Below this fence is placed the control tower windows

Base of the column where was placed LupusR solar lamp

Disrupt
electric cables nearby


Improvised
observation post


Dens forest around this position

Dens forest around this position

Dens forest around this position
   
     
The room for filtering air which is lead from the outside by force through the ventilation shaft who lead to the surface.
Specifity here is 2 concrete bath with quartz sand which can be seen in all clima chambers inside the underground facility "Klek".
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(1) The look on the double aromored doors from inside of the CT
(2) Concrete baths
with
quartz sand


(4) Air throtle
for
outside air

   

(3) The look inside the room with concrete baths
Few more LupusREBEL pictures from the control tower:



 
   
     
Control lamps from the control tower, this black was probably some green light(?)


Especially interesting dicovery of the LupusREBEL was existence of 3 concrete trench which is placed above and beside entrance/exit 3, they are under 3 line of barbed wire(?).
One of possible usage of these trenches is maybe for demolishing and burying entrance(s) in the underground object with explosive.
If that's correct then it's clear that exYugoslav Peoples Army on purpose didn't destroy airfield completely and that also other 3 entrances probably do have similar trenches.
In view of fact that runways 1, 2 and 4 don't have great demage on infrastructure and that one big fuel tank isn't destroy than is pretty obviusly that exYPA main task here
was to temporarily disable airfield with second aim that Serb forces return here sometime in close future.
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Trench A

Trench B


()Trench B-stairs

   

Trench B

Trench B


)Trench B-stairs


Wires around trench B

Wires around trench B

   
     



 

 

Antenna column beside the terrace of CT

 

 

Position of the control tower in relation on an entrance 2.
Toward CT lead an eleveator which had an entrance through the access corridor from the galery of 124th.Fighting SQDN.

 

LYBI-forum team with LupusREBEL guidance climb up at the control tower...
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Airfield Zeljava, control tower. (13.04.2008.)

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Control tower during operational period;

Position of the control tower is marked by red arrow;
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Control tower itself, zoomed:
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Most probably position of the control tower (above entrance 2):




Recorded from the control tower(AFC)-the look on the runways:
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Inside of the control tower (AFC):
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