Posted on 10/13/2020 11:33:05 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.
More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. It weighed nearly 5,400 kg, including 2,400 kg of explosive.
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Lt. Hiroo Onoda and his comrades were causing trouble (including a few fatalities) on a Philippine island as late as 1972, when the last of them (Onoda excepted) was killed by police.
Deflagration. From the original article:
“The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered as neutralised, it will not pose any more threat,”
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Hey, they produced Jaguar XKs.
“Best if used by ...”
Plus, they’d built bombers that could fit them!
As was posted by FReeper earlier: Innovation does not translate into reliability.............
That grabbed my attention, also.
But they still can’t cook worth a darn...
Did you know there was a Russian movie called “Stalingrad” a few years ago. And Thomas Kretschmann was also in that one.
<< There was a lot of WWI that was fought underground. It was very nasty work.>>
Battle of the Crater in the War of Northern Aggression - Seige of Petersburg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater
They still find unexploded bombs on Guam.
True, but they looked and sounded good.
seen it... almost as bleak as the Painted Bird
“At times the Brits have built some really innovative things”
But the Brits skipped right past innovative tools for quality dental care.
I used to work for a company that was based in New Jersey on the grounds of an old WWI munitions plant. Even as of a few years ago, they would occasionally find unexploded shells when they dug for construction.
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