WW2 Aerial Bomb Detonated in Munich.

[ВАЛТЕР]

A 250 kilogram bomb dropped on Munich in WW2 was found by a construction crew and had to be detonated as the bomb squad couldn't disarm it. Nobody was hurt, but some nearby buildings were damaged from the blast.

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[ÑóẊîöʼn]

That explosion was bigger than I expected. Did they just detonate the old explosives or did they add some new?

[Paul Cockshott]

You get a lot of saturation on the camera from filming in low initial light levels so it looks more dramatic under those conditions than it would in daylight.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

You get a lot of saturation on the camera from filming in low initial light levels so it looks more dramatic under those conditions than it would in daylight.

Actually it was more the noise and the shockwave which surprised me.

[ВАЛТЕР]

That explosion was bigger than I expected. Did they just detonate the old explosives or did they add some new?

Well, it is a 250 kilo bomb. That is some serious shit.

I read that they attached their own explosive so it would detonate the bomb itself. Pretty big explosion, I bet it was loud as all hell in person.

[citizen of industry]

That was just one bomb. I wonder what the concentration of those were? i.e., how many of them dropped simultaneously over what area? Google didn't come up with much. Over Japan, they stopped using those pretty quickly because incendiaries were more effective on the lower level of development, and then nukes.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Considering that certain explosives become more sensitive with age, it's a wonder that I haven't heard any news of an old bomb accidentally going off.

[citizen of industry]

They find them here from time to time, same as in Munich. Always at a construction site, buried deep underground. Maybe that's why they don't go off, no oxygen or pressure? When they find them they stop construction, evacuate the neighborhood and call the army in.

[Paul Cockshott]

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