The base, which is estimated to have cost an astronomical $6 billion at the time, the equivalent of a staggering $62 billion (£49bn) today, was operational until the early 1990s.

Despite the vast expense, the withdrawing Yugoslav People's Army destroyed much of the complex during the Yugoslav Wars in 1991 to prevent the opposing forces from using it for their own ends. The complex has remained abandoned ever since.

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