Photos of an Abandoned Underground Ammo Factory in Albania

[SonOfSun]

Kind of interesting. Figured some here might like to see this.

Photos of an Abandoned Underground Ammo Factory in Albania

Photographer Arkadiusz Podniesiński went underground in Albania and explored a hidden abandoned ammunition factory from decades ago.

petapixel.com

In the 1960s and ‘70s, the town of Poliçan was one of the largest and most important armaments centers in Albania. For security reasons, most information about the site was top secret and the town itself was closed to foreigners.

Today, it is known that it was built for the employees of the Poliçan Mechanical Works, which specialized in the production of ammunition of various calibers, including for the AK-47 rifle (popularly known as the Kalashnikov), mortar rounds, offensive and defensive grenades, as well as anti-personnel and anti-tank mines........

 

[dsdmmat]

Could use a few of those machines.

 

[Blimey]

Reminds me of some of the pages on this site: Doomed Settlements of Chukotka - English Russia

 

[Mosinitis]

Could use a few of those machines.

Think big, PRIMERS.

 

[FRANKIE]

30k rounds a day yet I never came across any Albanian surplus ammunition

 

[Saltwater60]

That’s pretty cool. Very interesting how they just left everything as is, projectiles in the hopper, rounds in holding trays.