Unexploded bomd detonated

[Dan M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19408929

Saw this story on today's news. It was quite an explosion.

[Killerbee]

Unfortunately, this won't be the last bomb that will be uncovered. I wonder how many more are just laying around waiting to get discovered.

[petopoint]

ka booooooooom

Thanks for the thread, imagine hundreds detonating above or around you
back in the day. I'm sure you won't see the last of them either.


Peto at point

[pete]

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Looks to me like as the team had no other option and also couldn't move it they have done what is called a "low order" where the case is cracked open and the filler is ignited burned out and does not go "high" with the full forces let loose as if it functioned as per design. This would be most preferable in that built up environment. But, even when you do a low order some part may go high, and thus you protect it in case i goes high all or a portion of. Back in the day there was a war going on between our scientists and theirs when they designed all this to cause as you see here maximum disruption in the area, such as with delay fuses. They went so far as to design functions to get the operator as well after a while. The thing to remember is the original guys who went out and did this had no course before doing it in 1940 during the Blitz and no set of established rules to work by, if a guy got to step 4 and bang then they started again at step 4 next time, how to deal with each fuse, and there were usually a minimum of at least 2 was being learned on the ground and if they could capture one to study. Methods were developed as time went on but alot of guys died along the way to get this job done and gain the knowledge. Danger UXB, 10 seconds to Hell are a few films you could watch to get an idea. The BD Officer badge which you see in the British Army on the sleeve of the Uniform is not just a badge like any other badge, it is actually a sort of Battle Honor and was designed by Princess Anne if my memory serves me correct from what the Brits I know have said before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVAZmF2d8es

Regards,

Pete

[Jägermarty]

Amazing it didn't do more damage, full of admiration for the people trying to defuse those things.

[pete]

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...don-Blitz.html

http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900

Zoom out to about level 4 and more and you can pretty much make out where "sticks"...or "groups of sticks" landed...

Note the way I see it this is "likely" whats "open source" and mapped...as there are a lot more likely officially recorded for eons since wartime but their locations kept quiet for various valid official reasons and are left so until absolutely required to deal with or left so as they are as they are not a threat where they presently are, unless efforts are made which would make them a threat! Eg. Buried 20m down, and no planned building work to ever go on and nothing or nobody if importance in the area and not planned to be either. As well, likely many were "ignored" by civilian firms and cemented over, built over, covered over etc over the years knowingly to avoid having to deal with them, and costs therein! Now in modern day a prior UXO survey is required for all construction!