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The Disney Bomb was developed and manufactured by the British.
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They had the Disney bomb similar to the German rocket boosted bombs
No wonder the British and German bomb-disposal guys are trained in disarming old bombs. It wasn't long ago that they found a cookie under a bank in Germany, and I don't mean the kind with chocolate chips.Liverpool - Unexploded parachute mine sits in a garden on Score Lane, Childwall. 28 November 1940
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They find bombs all the time in Germany and elsewhere in Europe it rarely makes the news. Farmers in France where the WW1 trenches were plough up unexploded shells all the time, they just put them in the corner of a field until they have a pile and call someone to dispose of them.No wonder the British and German bomb-disposal guys are trained in disarming old bombs. It wasn't long ago that they found a cookie under a bank in Germany, and I don't mean the kind with chocolate chips.
It wasn't long ago that they found a cookie under a bank in Germany, and I don't mean the kind with chocolate chips.
No wonder the British and German bomb-disposal guys are trained in disarming old bombs. It wasn't long ago that they found a cookie under a bank in Germany, and I don't mean the kind with chocolate chips.
Liverpool - Unexploded parachute mine sits in a garden on Score Lane, Childwall. 28 November 1940
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They find bombs all the time in Germany and elsewhere in Europe it rarely makes the news. Farmers in France where the WW1 trenches were plough up unexploded shells all the time, they just put them in the corner of a field until they have a pile and call someone to dispose of them.
One disturbing article I read stated that on average 2 detonate themselves every year due to corrosion."Even now, 70 years later, more than 2,000 tons of unexploded munitions are uncovered on German soil every year. Before any construction project begins in Germany, from the extension of a home to track-laying by the national railroad authority, the ground must be certified as cleared of unexploded ordnance....
Eleven bomb technicians have been killed in Germany since 2000, including three who died in a single explosion while trying to defuse a 1,000-pound bomb on the site of a popular flea market in Göttingen in 2010...
Early one recent winter morning, Horst Reinhardt, chief of the Brandenburg state KMBD, told me that when he started in bomb disposal in 1986, he never believed he would still be at it almost 30 years later. Yet his men discover more than 500 tons of unexploded munitions every year and defuse an aerial bomb every two weeks or so..."
There Are Still Thousands of Tons of Unexploded Bombs in Germany, Left Over From World War II | History | Smithsonian Magazine
LMB parachute mine targeted at harbours was supposed to self destruct if it missed water.Liverpool - Unexploded parachute mine sits in a garden on Score Lane, Childwall. 28 November 1940
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Maybe initially, but they were later fitted with a photo electric trigger to kill people trying to defuse them. As previously, there is no harbour in Birmingham or Coventry.LMB parachute mine targeted at harbours was supposed to self destruct if it missed water.
Ohh! I'd really like a copy of the USSR bomb book - I can't find it in a search - know where it is please? I need to make a replica FAB-50 and FAB-100!This is the Russian one...
....and the German one
They're in here somewhere
Or landing in waters too shallow, etc. But, apparently, there were malfunctions. In my home town, LMB has been discovered in the ground in the early 2000s.LMB parachute mine targeted at harbours was supposed to self destruct if it missed water.
Actually most, if not all models were fitted with both. DIfferent mechanisms for different functions: self destruction in case of landing in the wrong place (wrong depth) and self destruction to prevent de-fusing. The latter was optical and called Geheimhaltereinrichtung .Maybe initially, but they were later fitted with a photo electric trigger to kill people trying to defuse them. As previously, there is no harbour in Birmingham or Coventry.
Thanks, however the discussion started about the use of sea mines on land targets, there are as many harbours in Birmingham and Coventry as there are in Moscow, there is no doubt that the LW dropped mines on land targets in UK, I don't know why it is denied, well actually I do, but I don't know why I am expected to believe such nonsense.Or landing in waters too shallow, etc. But, apparently, there were malfunctions. In my home town, LMB has been discovered in the ground in the early 2000s.
Actually most, if not all models were fitted with both. DIfferent mechanisms for different functions: self destruction in case of landing in the wrong place (wrong depth) and self destruction to prevent de-fusing. The latter was optical and called Geheimhaltereinrichtung .
Detailed article in 2 parts. In Russian, but there are English/German language sources in the footnote.
Немецкие морские мины серии ВМ. mormine BM.shtml
Немецкие морские мины серии ВМ. mormine BM.shtml
Thanks, however the discussion started about the use of sea mines on land targets, there are as many harbours in Birmingham and Coventry as there are in Moscow, there is no doubt that the LW dropped mines on land targets in UK, I don't know why it is denied, well actually I do, but I don't know why I am expected to believe such nonsense.
They fell on Birmingham and Coventry which are about as far from the sea as you can get in England.Do you have primary documents that LMB mines were dropped on inland targets? One can imagine mines hitting parts of say London, Portsmouth, Liverpool the mines that are perhaps off by several Kilometers are perceived as deliberate attacks. In the course of time it becomes assumed that this was the norm.
Are you sureThey fell on Birmingham and Coventry which are about as far from the sea as you can get in England.
Absolutely BBC - WW2 People's War - Birmingham War Experiences Quote "Are you sure