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Crater from a 250 kilo WW2 bomb which detonated last weekend in a farmer's field in Germany
This photo shows a 250 kilo bomb with a acid detonator which detonated last weekend on a field in germany. Luckily nobody was near the explosion.
Top View with a DJI drone of the explosion side.
It exploded at 3 am in the night.
We have still some bombs left in the ground more than 60 years later.
Sorry for german text:
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-sendungen/videos/bei-limburg-weltkriegsbombe-explodiert-auf-feld-100.html
Kok0lores
Oh Gott es geht wieder los :P
captaintoslow
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/koblenz/Keine-Verletzten-Weltkriegsbombe-explodiert-auf-Feld,weltkriegsbombe-krater-100.html
myoun10
Oh thank god. I thought the aliens were getting sloppy.
ProbablyDrunkAgain
When I was stationed in Japan a construction crew found a 500 lb bomb when they tore down an old warehouse. It was inert, thankfully.
jollyjack
A circle? In a crop, you say?
Zahnradfee
*allies
jfd8u438fdsfkds
Hey, I know! Let's start another war to make our approval rating go up!
Danivuk
So, do those tracks mean someone drove right over the top of it a little earlier?
VulcanP90
yarp
davidseavey726
So that’s how crop circles are made
QADA
My great grandmother died doing the laundry after the the Second World War a left behind Grenade exploded killing her.
Kbantar
A war isn't just hell today, but hell for generations to come.
JuiceJive
Well technically there were a couple of bombs that produced fallout used in WW2, but not in Germany. Most of it blew away, though.
Watchadave
Now that's a crop circle.
BobaFettApproves
easter eggs for hitler
neil137
why would it wait 60 years and how has the farmer not struck it?
IvorJBiggun
Stuff underground moves slowly over time. It was probably deeper when it initially hit.
ChloeRed
because it was deeper then the farmer's work reached?
Zahnradfee
It was about 4m down, that's 13 feet in silly units.
neil137
*king units
mailman7777777
Watch out, where there's one there may be another.
myriadshadesofgray
If it really was an acid trigger, I'm amazed to took this long for the metal disc between the acid chambers to deteriorate.
xthetenth
If I remember right in some parts of Germany bombs would ricochet back up from a lower clay layer of soil, and settle nose up. Maybe that?
BeneNotSoCreativ
Some where designed to take as mutch time as the people needed to think they were dead. So they could explode when there where removed
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
Those things are the worst, designed to go off later once the bombing site would appear safe. Duds are super dangerous to defuse.
pois1
So... working as intended, then?
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
Well, they were designed to go off hours or days after you'd drop them. Or 70+ years if you're really resentful.
Demonlettuce
Ah, ww2 bombs. They find those rather frequently in Hamburg
SoberAndBored
Also here in Liverpool, England
KenpachiJiraiya
I believe those are called hamburgers
HereDueToYourOnePeskyDownVote
Sorry about that. Hear Coventry has the same issue. ;)
Yupurineutah
My father was tasked with recovering the burnt dead from there. Horrible.
Lupus1711
more like all over Germany. feels like every weekend there is some city that get's evacuated because of bomb removal
GrandProtectorDark
We did get littered with bombs like they were sugar sprinkles on an ice cream
markonemick1
And England, in and around London. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-48399882
SoberAndBored
And Liverpool
markonemick1
They had pulled down a hotel to build something else on the site. I had stayed in that hotel 2 or 3 times lol.
KartFnocker
there's a 50,000lbs mine bomb from WW1 still sitting unexploded under a farm in belgium! Link:
KartFnocker
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1451468/Farmer-who-is-sitting-on-a-bomb.html
TemetNosce000
Link from 2004
KartFnocker
well the facts are from 1917, so I didn't bother to find a newer one
TemetNosce000
My point is it's probably gone by now
kakivara
Everything I see indicates it is still there:
SoooooOriginal
Even back then, some bombs were designed to detonate later, once people had come back out of the shelters. Horrible.
Niobe68
a random explosion ? or it was on purpose ?
JimmyMcgillesq
Why the downvotes? Hes just asking a question
RPCharImages
Cos OP explains it self detonated
tothereandbackagain
Controlled detonation
captaintoslow
(1) No, it was not a controlled detonation! It happend without anybody knowing that there was a bomb. In the middle of the night the bomb
captaintoslow
(2) exploded. The people from the village found the crater the next morning.
tothereandbackagain
SupermassiveZebra
On purpose, just 70 years too late
Zahnradfee
Random.
TheBurritoConfederacy
To this day Germany is still finding about 2,000 tonnes of unexploded ordnance every year even though WWII was decades ago.
TheBurritoConfederacy
There are believed to be hundreds of thousands of unexploded wartime bombs across Germany. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41140949
mailman7777777
How do they know the size of the bomb and that it had an acid detonator?
aMiu
Reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest
3timesaday1
Staggering numbers
Respectablecrazy
Every year in Berlin there's an evac of a few blocks due to finding unexploded ordinance from WWII.
Nunyabidness13406
Shit!
alazyamerican
Some people are still fighting that war?
MinorityOpinion
Some people want to have another go!
ReactorAxeMan
That's bullshit. We all know it was a Creeper...
AutoFox
No joke, someone set off fireworks next door just when that image loaded.
sahdad
That farmer's been driving over it for years.
Porfirij
scary thought really.
digme
Twist - he knew about it and every time wondered if this would the day of sweet relief.
MachineInterface
In France we still dig up dozens of tons of bombs from WWI, every year.
Pokegeologist
Is there any way to use aircraft with either IR or magnetic sensors to sweep large areas for objects?
MachineInterface
Oh we roughly know where they are. But there are just so many of them that it will take a ridiculous amount of time to dig up everything >
MachineInterface
plus it has to be done carefully because of the risk of explosion and poisoning (there are areas where the ground is so full of arsenic >
MachineInterface
that almost no plant can grow to this day).
jfd8u438fdsfkds
you have to differentiate dirt and rock from metal
Pokegeologist
Can't you do controlled tests over known objects with IR cameras to establish guided selection, and base new imagery from this?
Pokegeologist
I've had training in remote sensing and air photo interpretation, but it's been almost 10 years now.
jfd8u438fdsfkds
How do you plan to see things underground with IR?
Pokegeologist
If they're buried shallow, they may give off a different heat signature at the surface versus the surrounding terrain.