The accident occurred in Limburg, where there was a railroad junction and switchyard. The bomb exploded right in the middle of a barley field. It could have landed there as a part of an Allied bombing mission, however it did not explode and spent 75 years buried in the ground.
The WWII era bomb exploded at night. As a result, an enormous crater was created in the middle of the field. Thankfully, there were no casualties in the incident, but unexploded ordnance remains a serious threat in all countries that took part in the war.
According to the de-miners, the bomb had a weight of 250 kg. It was probably a М43, AN-M43 or AN-M64, but it also could have been a M65 — a bomb with a charge of 127 kg TNT. This type of giant was used to destroy the enemy’s infrastructure.
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Thousands of bombs were dropped during the war, and some of them are still in the ground. According to Air & Space, these bombs will be detonated within the next 200 years, so they pose a real threat to humanity.
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