I worked 16 years in an exact same facility in the NL as a Fighter Controller. For a short while I worked in this Belgian bunker in 1988 and visited later again for operational work. All fighter operations were directed and controlled from the facility. The same radar was teared down in the north of the Netherlands where a new, modern is built. But there is still one intact and operational in the center of NL. The work was in shifts. The sticker you filmed is a class sticker from the NL Military Academy. If I am not wrong there was a fire in this Belgian bunker before 1988 where people died because of getting trapped. After that fire the safety regulations and facilities were changed to prevent it.
Hi Michel, nice! Must be much more impressive when it’s in use. Thanks for your additional (and sad) info. About the Dutch places I know… maybe I’ll be able to explore it one day but I doubt it😄
It'll be re-opened and upgraded soon. European safety is back to cold war, not long until that's gonna be visible in daily life (tank transport, more public military training etc..)
Brilliant vid. The recent bunker finds are pure gold. If they can abandon such a significant facility it makes you wonder where they moved everything too.
Can't believe it was abounded in 2021? They got some use out of it. Looks so new. Freshest/newest bunker I've ever seen. I wonder how many NATO bunkers are still active?
I love cold war era stuff. Here in the states, I love collecting civil defense cold war things, like rations and fallout shelter signs. Great video, very well documented sir. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for checking out! I love cold war stuff too. Found some really unique stuff (you can find more stuff on this channel) But the most amazing cold war place they sued me for “possessing state secrets, spying and entering military grounds” 😵💫🙄
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath i made sure to subscribe, great channel sir. I'm sorry to hear they did that to you thats ridiculous. I hope the charges and suit were dropped. Stay safe out there. Cheers
"Don't tread on the theodolite bracket." If you are unaware a theodolite is a survey/ alignment tool similar to a transit level, except not only can it locate azimuth degrees, but vertical degrees as well. Visual device with sighting scope and crosshairs. There would have been a known target set at a known azimuth and elevation, and known distance, probably at zero degrees elevation, with either a sighting hole or removable panel in the radome to allow visual siting. I maintained Ground Controlled Approach RADAR at NAS Miramar in the 70's, and a theodolite was used with GCA to maintain accuracy under FAA, as Miramar also used to recover civilian aircraft, at times.
If this is where I think it is, I passed some time there during my military service in 1972 as part of an extra security detachment of the Belgian Airforce
Thanks for checking out again Andrea :) Must have been a really crowded place with nearly 300 people indeed. Next episode (in 2 weeks) Is about a creepy hospital where they left everything behind... even human organs :O
Ben er gister geweest niet normaal groot zeg, wel blij dat het niet gesloopt is door koper dieven etc. En op 19:18 ben ik omlaag geklommen je kon officieel nog dieper alleen hebben ze dicht gegooid met zand. Keep up the good work!
What a great video you made. And the fact the facility was abandoned fairly recently makes it even more interesting. Btw, just for the record: Belgium has three official languages, Dutch/Flemish, French and German :)
I work at a demolition job and last year in the netherlands little village calles wier we had one taking down , was a nice experience looking inside of it
Why do they demolish them ? Do they reuse the land for military purposes or sell it for civilian purposes ? It seems like it would be cheaper just to seal them up and leave them.
@@juandenz2008 danger hazard. people is not very smart to stay out of this installations, and many are in bad structural conditions. So, demolition cames to prevent the worse
Gosh, coming back to this again months later I think to myself how vandalized and ransacked these places always inevitably become, and it’s such a shame... In a way it’s nice that you got to this place before much of that happened and were able to record a lot of the old but brilliant technology that was used! It’s a shame that for instance this place wasn’t offered up to be turned into a museum of sorts (if possible) instead of just left like that with everything in place just waiting to be gutted...
Very good Video. We have been there, too... couple of weeks ago. We came through this endless long corridor. It was an impressive and technically highly interesting military site. Happily, at this time there wasn't any graffiti or vandalism. I'm afraid, that won't last long now... Greetings from Germany... Chris
Really nice to see something that isn't a ruin or trashed. Slightly amazed that it isn't more secure given that it's still got viable (although outdated) equipment.
Looking at what you explored there.... It was really seriously interesting to understand that it was much more than just a radar... That thing is more like an awac sitting on the ground..... And I've been through a few of those and that's an understatement bank vault doors as I call them.... Yeah that wouldn't have been a good deal for you to get stuck behind one of those doors and have it close and somehow lock..... Because nobody would be coming to save you with the combination....some of those doors are half mechanical half electronic.. I didn't even like going in and getting locked in behind those things knowing that I had an entire military base behind me to get me out..... Even a big room can feel awfully claustrophobic behind one of those doors......
Something the video can't give us is the Atmosphere of the place. It would have been awesome to see in person. The place is obviously still live if you push all the breakers back on. I wish I could have seen it, so envious of you
Great video. Creepy noises in the radar room. What amazes me over and over is the amount of (our) money is used to build such things. And we’re not allowed to know what, where and for what reason those are built. And once they get old, they just leave them with a lot of gear (money). All this whilst people die of hunger across the planet. Shameful what our society has turned in to. Time for a change!
That's a very interesting facility. Looks like a Thomsen TRS 2201 Medium Power Radar System which was used by the NATO for decades as an airspace surveillance radar. It used a TV2030 Klystron tube📡🛜
Super nice location! NADGE = NATO Air Defense Ground Environment, so think like Stinger sites, and like our own Patriot systems in the Netherlands. The radar you see looks like a little bit like the LW-06 from Holland Signal. Nowadays stations like these use the SMART-L from THALES. Looks like you did your homework and study on this bunker very well :) Great location! I really like the shelter bunker, looks pretty old!
I have a dumb question, are there any efforts being made to preserve this site? It seems like it is in great condition and with a few repairs/updates it could be a great museum.
Ok boss ready , the wires you saw were for a security system. Super old school hard wiring stuff . Also look like bio labs to me. I hated pulling wire in building like this
I've seen computers like that. Those panels underneath it are for ventilation. It's not really for sound deprivation at all and also it might have a fire suppression system underneath it
Hey BOB!, jungske , wat weer een mooie video! , knap dat je er weer snel bij bent, voordat er weer graffiti op komt etc... 👍🏻, mooi overzicht.. btw, zijn je Egyptische avonturen al klaar en ge-edit ? Ben benieuwd 😊. Wat is je volgende avontuur ? Wie in godsnaam was zo gek iets met Frederik te produceren ha ha ! ? Groetnn oet Grunn Erik 👍🏻🧢
Haha! Zometeen vertrek ik naar Peru☺️ deze locatie was ik al in 2021 geweest maar ben terug gegaan voor een aflevering.. Egypte moet ik nog editten☺️(zoals nog vele anderen)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Ha ha ok Bob 😁, mooi naar Peru ! , gelukkig kan je nu weer reizen... ! Doe je nu alles alleen ? je camera beeld is mooi ! , had je al een nieuwe mic gekocht trouwens ? E
I worked 16 years in an exact same facility in the NL as a Fighter Controller. For a short while I worked in this Belgian bunker in 1988 and visited later again for operational work. All fighter operations were directed and controlled from the facility. The same radar was teared down in the north of the Netherlands where a new, modern is built. But there is still one intact and operational in the center of NL. The work was in shifts. The sticker you filmed is a class sticker from the NL Military Academy. If I am not wrong there was a fire in this Belgian bunker before 1988 where people died because of getting trapped. After that fire the safety regulations and facilities were changed to prevent it.
Hi Michel, nice! Must be much more impressive when it’s in use. Thanks for your additional (and sad) info. About the Dutch places I know… maybe I’ll be able to explore it one day but I doubt it😄
And then long winding up and down noise of sirens began
Think they'll reactivate this one in preparation for WW3?
as usual, great explore Bob!! nice to see a facility that hasn't been vandalized or covered with graffiti.
Thanks a lot as always Matt :) Some really amazing & unique explores coming up in may or so.
Give it time some ass-hats will find it and deface it!!
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath we can't wait!! well, we can.. but!! have fun Bob + friends!!!
That's because the place just got shutdown in 2021
I think the opposite. It unfortunate there’s no graffiti yet, all those blank canvases :/
Crazy how recent this was abandoned! Dope experience as always, sir!
It'll be re-opened and upgraded soon. European safety is back to cold war, not long until that's gonna be visible in daily life (tank transport, more public military training etc..)
Modern multitask radar needed
@@brainthesizeofplanet europe is collapsing. there will be no more public anything.
@@brainthesizeofplanet o ja? Think so?
@@brainthesizeofplanet but until then it's money out of the window soo it's a bulshit what they doo letting all this facility like this .
Brilliant vid. The recent bunker finds are pure gold. If they can abandon such a significant facility it makes you wonder where they moved everything too.
A sight for sore eyes; A facility that hasn't been vandalized, the cables stolen out of it, or with graffitti all over the place. Great video.
Amazing bunker in pristine condition. I just wish you had made a 2nd part video, this bunker is to big for one video!
I agree with that.
That looked so cool! I wonder if the bunker could ever be repurposed. Structurally, it looks in perfect condition.
Yeah why the fuck would they abandon this? Humans are stupidly wasteful lol
@@imonke5303 Well clearly you have no idea how expensive it is to maintain the bunker -_- and, no it will not reopen
@@imonke5303 that's what I'm saying
@@ofkacz5348 clearly you dont realize how much the world governments waste money, time, and resources.
Can't believe it was abounded in 2021? They got some use out of it. Looks so new. Freshest/newest bunker I've ever seen. I wonder how many NATO bunkers are still active?
I love cold war era stuff. Here in the states, I love collecting civil defense cold war things, like rations and fallout shelter signs. Great video, very well documented sir. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for checking out! I love cold war stuff too. Found some really unique stuff (you can find more stuff on this channel) But the most amazing cold war place they sued me for “possessing state secrets, spying and entering military grounds” 😵💫🙄
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath i made sure to subscribe, great channel sir. I'm sorry to hear they did that to you thats ridiculous. I hope the charges and suit were dropped. Stay safe out there. Cheers
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPathDid they sue you for entering this place? Insane ! Was it guarded or difficult to enter the premises ?
Another well done video. Rare stuff.
I discovered this YT channel just two hours ago, it's Amazing! What incredibile places! Great job guys!
Check out the top 10 most dangerous adventures too!😄😇
"Don't tread on the theodolite bracket." If you are unaware a theodolite is a survey/ alignment tool similar to a transit level, except not only can it locate azimuth degrees, but vertical degrees as well. Visual device with sighting scope and crosshairs. There would have been a known target set at a known azimuth and elevation, and known distance, probably at zero degrees elevation, with either a sighting hole or removable panel in the radome to allow visual siting.
I maintained Ground Controlled Approach RADAR at NAS Miramar in the 70's, and a theodolite was used with GCA to maintain accuracy under FAA, as Miramar also used to recover civilian aircraft, at times.
Loved this one very rare to get in to a clean unabused bunker with so much stuff left
This is right in my wheelhouse and so newly abandoned - excellent explore! 👍
Thanks! Some places don't get the chance to decay and have to be explored immediately 😀
Really interesting video, that place is vast and I can't believe you just walked right in!!
It was closed before. Went in with a ladder before. For now it's open, but that will change fast I'm afraid of.
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
Glad you returned!! Sounds like it won't remain open for much longer.....
If this is where I think it is, I passed some time there during my military service in 1972 as part of an extra security detachment of the Belgian Airforce
Very cool! I can imagine all the hustle & bustle going on in this place.
Thanks for checking out again Andrea :) Must have been a really crowded place with nearly 300 people indeed. Next episode (in 2 weeks) Is about a creepy hospital where they left everything behind... even human organs :O
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath oh wow! Can’t wait for that one! 👍🏻☺️
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Can't wait for it
Ben er gister geweest niet normaal groot zeg, wel blij dat het niet gesloopt is door koper dieven etc.
En op 19:18 ben ik omlaag geklommen je kon officieel nog dieper alleen hebben ze dicht gegooid met zand.
Keep up the good work!
Deze is in Luik toch?
@@ItsLD06 inderdaad, zag aanduidingen op de patchpanels over Lantin.
Thank you from Australia. May you be safe in all endeavours 🙏
Fantastic explore. Thank you.
It's hard to believe it's only been abandoned ONE year, and it's already in such bad condition on the exterior.
it was being used off the books. ask yourself why they are running NBC filters and why NATO walked away from national defense as soon as Biden got in.
Bad condition!?
What a great video you made. And the fact the facility was abandoned fairly recently makes it even more interesting. Btw, just for the record: Belgium has three official languages, Dutch/Flemish, French and German :)
It never cease to amaze me your work. I so admire you! Greetings from Colombia.
Love the Comic Sans type on the official government memo
Visited this place today. The bunker is closed off sadly but the radar still looks as good
What a coincidence! I was here today too
what city is this?
I served at a CAS site near Ulm back in the mid 70's. I was with Pershing at Wiley in Neu Ulm. Nice video.
It's so great you documented this before it gets completely vandalized by idiots.
Showing the entrance and location like this will ensure it gets vandalized.
@@neonalon Getting 90.000 views in a few weeks time as well.
I think this bunker will soon be in operation again! Don’t worry
@@snowrabbit9558 lmao. no.
@@neonalon didn't even explore all of it either :(
Thanks for the videos! Your explorations keep my curiosity at bay. I love checking out abandoned places as well. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Richard, some real amazing places coming up in the next month or so😃
A few days ago I passed a live radar when hiking, amazed to see the inside😍
Ah nice! They all look different from the inside :) have seen a few of them
Thank you for your amazing videos! Be safe and God bless you!
that mural room is incredible
I love the mural by the way still in great shape
Very cool! I Just found your channel
seems dagerous af to do this alone
At least you're less likely to get caught I guess
I work at a demolition job and last year in the netherlands little village calles wier we had one taking down , was a nice experience looking inside of it
Why do they demolish them ? Do they reuse the land for military purposes or sell it for civilian purposes ? It seems like it would be cheaper just to seal them up and leave them.
@@juandenz2008 danger hazard. people is not very smart to stay out of this installations, and many are in bad structural conditions. So, demolition cames to prevent the worse
I really hope they preserve and turn that into a museum. Places like this are a treasure trove for exploratory tourist.
I’m afraid this place will be demolished😰
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath what a waste
Really fascinating explore😍 Loved those paintings and murals🎨🖼
One of the best videos on old radar I've ever seen
i like the vid. good vid bob
amazing how 'simple' it is inside the dome. Looks like a 007 set
This was the amazing exploration video Bob , love your videos
Gosh, coming back to this again months later I think to myself how vandalized and ransacked these places always inevitably become, and it’s such a shame...
In a way it’s nice that you got to this place before much of that happened and were able to record a lot of the old but brilliant technology that was used!
It’s a shame that for instance this place wasn’t offered up to be turned into a museum of sorts (if possible) instead of just left like that with everything in place just waiting to be gutted...
Did it get smashed and tagged up already ?
Nice place to play airsoft 😊
Very good Video. We have been there, too... couple of weeks ago. We came through this endless long corridor.
It was an impressive and technically highly interesting military site.
Happily, at this time there wasn't any graffiti or vandalism. I'm afraid, that won't last long now...
Greetings from Germany... Chris
Yeah. The condition has been going down hill fast recently. Should have seen it earlier.. Was crazy.
Addition, it has been closed for a few months now. Absolutely massive steel girders are stacked tight in the main entrance corridor.
Very cool place ... should be sealed to preserve it, might need them bunkers again soon.
Yeah, I wonder how many shelters and bunkers are being cleaned now…
Fun stuff. Great video!
👍👊😎
Wow wouldnt that make a brilliant workshop and living space, I wonder when it will be sold off and for how much, its very neat
Apart from the postman being long gone when you finally answer the door.
Really nice to see something that isn't a ruin or trashed. Slightly amazed that it isn't more secure given that it's still got viable (although outdated) equipment.
People are more intelligent now. You always learn more never less.
Looking at what you explored there.... It was really seriously interesting to understand that it was much more than just a radar... That thing is more like an awac sitting on the ground..... And I've been through a few of those and that's an understatement bank vault doors as I call them.... Yeah that wouldn't have been a good deal for you to get stuck behind one of those doors and have it close and somehow lock..... Because nobody would be coming to save you with the combination....some of those doors are half mechanical half electronic..
I didn't even like going in and getting locked in behind those things knowing that I had an entire military base behind me to get me out..... Even a big room can feel awfully claustrophobic behind one of those doors......
Amazing explore folk :)
Excellent!!!! New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦
Something the video can't give us is the Atmosphere of the place. It would have been awesome to see in person. The place is obviously still live if you push all the breakers back on. I wish I could have seen it, so envious of you
This surrounding area looked well maintained.. the grass looks being cut regularly.. so who's actually the owner of this land ?
Kleine opmerking, België is niet twee maar wel drietalig, nederlands, frans en duits.
Sehr toll, Bob!! Magnificent, as always!
I enjoyed this and found it one of your best explorations. I think it so amazing to find such a large facility completely unvandalised.
Very cool! Surprised they left all that radar equipment
Thanks for checking out Barney🤩 Yes most of the time these are emptied pretty quick.
First time i see the bunker 😯
Need to do a revisit
Worth it :) I also missed it last year. (I knew it was there but thought it was still a live military place)
Great video. Creepy noises in the radar room. What amazes me over and over is the amount of (our) money is used to build such things. And we’re not allowed to know what, where and for what reason those are built. And once they get old, they just leave them with a lot of gear (money). All this whilst people die of hunger across the planet. Shameful what our society has turned in to. Time for a change!
So wonderful 👍 it's looking still in use ,many things and machines left behind. Nice well arranged bunker
Thanks! It was abandoned not too long ago. Meanwhile it has been vandalized🤨😞
Excellent Video, that place is huge. It is in great condition, no water leaking in. Please show more of this place.👍✌️
amazing to see there are still equipments remaining
Great stuff, thank you for showing
Cool video like always. The location is just amazing
That's a very interesting facility. Looks like a Thomsen TRS 2201 Medium Power Radar System which was used by the NATO for decades as an airspace surveillance radar. It used a TV2030 Klystron tube📡🛜
Love these videos! Stay safe!
Brilliant explore thanks for sharing👏👏👏
That is really cool! It would be awesome for someone to build their house on that that bunker.
They were ready to hunker down and fight. Solid build, like a tomb
Geweldig weer Bob!
Thanks en tot snel Anne!🤩😎
Really love what you doing
Thanks! Did you see some newer episodes?☺️
Esplorazione fantastica Bob! 🔝💪🏻💪🏻🙋🏻
Thanks a million 🙏
Wow it recently closed. That’s wild Man. It looks likes it’s been closed for longer
Super nice location! NADGE = NATO Air Defense Ground Environment, so think like Stinger sites, and like our own Patriot systems in the Netherlands. The radar you see looks like a little bit like the LW-06 from Holland Signal. Nowadays stations like these use the SMART-L from THALES. Looks like you did your homework and study on this bunker very well :) Great location! I really like the shelter bunker, looks pretty old!
I have a dumb question, are there any efforts being made to preserve this site? It seems like it is in great condition and with a few repairs/updates it could be a great museum.
No, It’s sealed off now but I guess nothing will happen with it.
Your videos are so good. Keep up the good work!!!
11:05 I like the Comic Sans-ish font choice here for the Authorised Personnel Protected Room document.
Ok boss ready , the wires you saw were for a security system. Super old school hard wiring stuff . Also look like bio labs to me. I hated pulling wire in building like this
Awesome exploration! I would love to explore something like this one day!
Thanks Samuel! Where are you from?
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Montreal, Canada. I know that we have NATO installations in Canada, but all the sites I know of are still active.
@@samuelgilbert9734 Do you know about the Diefenbunker museum in Ottawa?
@@TheMan1510 Nope, but I guess I need to put it on my todo list!
It's amazing with all that is going on around the world people have not squatted in these out of fear to protect themselves.
Well, we now know where to go when the 💩 hits the fan😜
wow - another great Exploration from the doyen of SubEx!
Good documentation bob!
Je bent lekker aan t groeien op CZcams, nice. Is helemaal gegund. Volg je nu echt al tijd kwam ik achter, sinds je tv programma in Nederland.
Valt mee... views zijn ook erg achteruit gegaan sinds covid. Hopelijk verbetert het weer binnenkort :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath komt goed, door blijven ploeteren! Genieten dit.
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath hou vol... ik blijf kijken en steunen waar t kan.
Boosting engagement numbers!
Thanks 🙏 appereciated
Will there be a part 2? Will you go down that ladder? This place looks so spread out. huge fallout vibes there
I went there yesterday.
I was at the end of it but they filled it up with sand so nobody can get further down.
@@Kevin-cj6yv yeah it goes down about 30m and then stops. Is it filled more now?
@@Kevin-cj6yv waar in belgie is dit? Welke stad/dorp
@@neonalon its the same about 30 meters
@@micklubben8859 vertel ik niet sorry
Leuke video weer Bob zo als altijd! :)
👍 Nightmares of being locked in.
There is a lot of room in that bunker! Put up a few partitions you could start renting out some space. Lot of people need a cheap room in this world.
This place would be great for a private resident. They have a already ready bunker in case a war broke out and plenty of storage for food and water
I saw it yes, old nuclear silos which now are luxury bunker rooms for the elite
I Really appreciate your chann!!!
Another great video amazing the size of the place
belllissimo video!!!! grazie per icontenuti che ci porti!!!
it would be cool revamping one of these and claiming it
Volgens mij is dit de HIPAR radar van een van de groepen geleide wapens gestationeerd in Duitsland.
That was fascinating man!
A very nice explore thnx.
Amazing place!!! Sadly, empty.
you'll fry your brain stayin in that radar... even offline, they still catch a lot of waves
I think it's good place to live...
No build cost no electric bills everything 🆓....
Just awesome
I was surprised that I didn't see a backup generator setup.
I've seen computers like that. Those panels underneath it are for ventilation. It's not really for sound deprivation at all and also it might have a fire suppression system underneath it
Very interesting ! I like bunkers !!They are fascinating !!!!! 😀
A very very epic & unique underground location is coming up..probably in may.
Hey BOB!, jungske , wat weer een mooie video! , knap dat je er weer snel bij bent, voordat er weer graffiti op komt etc... 👍🏻, mooi overzicht.. btw, zijn je Egyptische avonturen al klaar en ge-edit ? Ben benieuwd 😊. Wat is je volgende avontuur ? Wie in godsnaam was zo gek iets met Frederik te produceren ha ha ! ? Groetnn oet Grunn Erik 👍🏻🧢
Haha! Zometeen vertrek ik naar Peru☺️ deze locatie was ik al in 2021 geweest maar ben terug gegaan voor een aflevering.. Egypte moet ik nog editten☺️(zoals nog vele anderen)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Ha ha ok Bob 😁, mooi naar Peru ! , gelukkig kan je nu weer reizen... ! Doe je nu alles alleen ? je camera beeld is mooi ! , had je al een nieuwe mic gekocht trouwens ? E