On the night of Saturday 22 June to Sunday 23 June, residents of one of the outskirts of the German city of Limburg woke up from the rumble and trembling of the walls, which they qualified as an earthquake. However, the police who arrived at the source of the sound found a farm field with a fresh crater 10 meters in diameter and 4 meters deep:
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After a short trial, some “experts” told the press that it was a bomb from the Second World War, after which the news of the “explosion” went on television in Europe.
However, the problem is that, according to tagesanzeiger.ch, a special ordnance disposal service left for the field on Monday. During the investigation, no fragments were found that could clarify the origin of the crater.
Based on the size of the crater, the "experts" concluded that it was a 550 pound bomb, that is, a bomb with a caliber of 250 kg. Since all aerial bombs are approximately the same type in terms of the mass / charge ratio, the charge in this bomb was about 100 kg of TNT, and the remaining 150 kg was iron. And now the question arises: where did this iron go?
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Bombs with a caliber of 250 kg explode very strongly, however, whatever the filling (high-explosive, incendiary), the fragments are very large:
If a bomb with a caliber of 250 kg explodes in an open area, then the dispersion of fragments reaches 2 kilometers. But here, as it were, a bomb exploded underground, where it lay for more than 70 years, so all these pieces of iron had to be somewhere nearby. It is possible that the police might not have noticed them, but the sappers would have caught at least one from the funnel and showed them to the happy press. But - there are no fragments.
This raises the question again: so what exploded and exploded there?
We do not know the answer to this question, but we are giving a great idea to the officials: now, if an inexplicable landslide, a sinkhole or some other strange hole in the ground appears somewhere, it can be safely attributed not only to karst caves, but also for ammunition from the Second World War.