Plokðtinë Nuclear Missile Launch Site
In 1960 more than 10 000 Soviet soldiers started secret works in Þemaitija National Park that took 2 years. Most activities where done during the nights, and even people who lived in the area didn't know what was going on.....The out of the way forest near Plungë was carefully chosen to become a secret base to carry the Soviet Nuclear Weapons. The base was situated here and became famous as a Plokðtinë nuclear missile launch site. The Plokðtinë nuclear missile launch site started operating around three years after it was established. It included 4 silos that took in missiles of the R- 12 U/ SS-4 kind. The missiles at the Plokðtinë nuclear missile launch site were nuclear in nature and propelled using a medium range liquid. They weighed more than 40 tones each and the weight of the warhead was over 1500 kilograms. These surface-to-surface missiles also had a radius of operation of a...
