Here in Hamburg, we still find a bomb or two in basically all construction sites! its insane how many unexploded bombs are left in the ground, honestly!
It is much easier when you can do it quickly and when you have better images. Even today they study old aerial pictures from after WW2 air raids to find where unexploded bombs may be. Today when an unexploded bomb rips a small crater into the ground, people mark the spot by taking pictures on their cellphones that have time, date, and GPS location in the metadata. The problem is the booby traps and minefields and other nasty stuff that fascist russians actively bury and hide in fascist russia controlled areas.
It might not be as bad as we think. I say that because modern explosives have better detonation and stuff. Less likely to fail. Doesn't mean Ukraine won't have to deal with unexploded bomb. Just that it won't be as bad as say the aftermath of Korea or WW2.
@@Spartan265 I think the main thing is camera phones. Intentionally hidden land mines and booby traps remain a problem. But unexploded bombs, grenades and rockets, these still punch a noticeable hole in the ground. Then it needs to overgrow and be forgotten. But if people take pictures or you have tons of drone footage, you know exactly where to look.
No construction work in my hometown without a search for ordnance! Nuremberg was destroyed about 93%. It is estimated that a large portion did not explode, due to soft sandy ground.
@@rikuvakevainen6157 In one of the last standing justice buildings in Germany. The Justiz Palast in Nuremberg and the close by prison did not get hit by bombs. The room 600, where the trials have been held is still in its original condition and a memorial.
Yep, this is pretty normal here. When you first get here it's shocking but then again so are the buildings that are still damaged or built upon, even replaced, looking out of place from all the bombings during the wars. There is a ton of history here.
It has to become law that all construction projects require a search for unexploded ordinance using ground penetrating radar. If deep excavation is involved then this will require repeated passes with ground penetrating radar. This is no different then requiring archaeology survey before construction. It should be part of the Environmental Assessment process.
@@leonkrug4841 the cost would be inconsequential relative to the building costs. Ground penetrating radar is used at most building sites to identify the location of existing utilities. A few thousand dollars vs a few million for the building. And what cost do you assign to a human life if a excavator or pilon hits a bomb. It's a very simple and low cost solution.
Here in London WW2 bombs are found every couple of years, nowhere as bad as in German cities. There are areas that are known to have UXBs such as Leyton Marsh which was used as a rubble dump.
I remember watching the series 'Danger UXB' on PBS, back when Anthony Andrews was such a heartthrob. Americans are so insulated from the consequences of war on one's home ground.
This is trivial compared to Laos. Laos holds a world record: the most bombed country in the world. 7.7 million tons of explosives were dropped in Laos, a country that America had not declared a war with, by more than 580,000 air missions by the US Airforce on Laos between 1964 and 1973 during the Vietnam War. That’s more than three times the amount of bombs dropped in all theaters of World War II. Each bomb contained numerous bomblets so that more surface of the land was covered. There are still 80 million bomblets that never went off remain live, buried over 35% of land area of Laos. A staggering 270 million bomblets were dropped in a country with a population of 2.5 million, to carpet a huge buffer zone to prevent weaponries to reach Vietnam. By 1975, 1/10th of Laos population was killed, 1/5th of the population wounded. Most Americans don’t even know about this secret war.
@@Suto_Ko Even today people get injured after accidentally step on the bomblets. At current effort, it will take another 200 years to clear up those UXO.
The anti war protesters in US. barely had any rallies a few about Cambodia. Lots of students in zeuro and U.S. protested about Vietnam of course. zthankfully that war ended. U.S. cancelled its Draft in early 1970s and US. involvement supposedly ended too.
This complements your previous documentary on this subject well. As usual, the minds that need to "conquer and destroy" wreck havoc among us, and as usual those who wish to live a peaceful life must endure in this case, the fall-out of war. We are all "collateral damage" and never mind the ones who say "This is good for you" or "Our destiny"
yeah, it's unfortunate how innocent people often bear the brunt of conflicts. "Collateral damage" is a tragic reality, and the pursuit of peace should always be the priority.
Land mine fields are often the problem more so than unexplosive bombs as well as training fields. As it was also in Korea as well. My father's job was jeep driver for Korean Ally officers during the initial days of the end of the Korean war. He was told to take a particular route which it was discovered to be a minefield that had not been cleared. Fortunately God protected my father and the officer.
Wow, that's a fortunate escape for your father and the officer, Land mine fields can indeed pose significant dangers, and proper clearance is crucial. Safety precautions and thorough training are essential to mitigate risks.
The argument against giving cluster munitions to Ukraine doesn't make any sense. The concern is that civilians will be killed by unexploded cluster bombs after the war ends right? But while the war goes on Russia is killing thousands of civilians, and the longer it goes on the more they will kill. Not to mention the Russians are also dumping mines all over the place which are way worse than cluster munitions because they are designed to sit dormant until disturbed. If you want to save as many civilians as possible then the best way to do that is to end the war as quickly as possible by giving Ukraine anything that will help them win.
I hope our friends in Germany are very careful. A lot of people on RUclips have no idea the reality of WW2, the Holocaust, and how many people sacrificed their lives, and families.
What a mess. Ukraine will be going through this decades from now, too. And right now their problem makes Germany's problems, in this respect, practically a no op. It seems like equipping these crews with metal detectors might prove useful.
Theres a big problem in germany with bombs, On september 30th 2023, everyone got evacuated in a meter of 50 Meters, i got affected, the fact i lived on the exact street with the bomb, i was horrified, First time i got evacuated, it took from 14:00 (2pm) to 22:00 (10pm) to be unfused, i thought, what if they dont have a successful unfusion?
Why not develop little robots that can use ground penetrating radar to scan all the ground? There are different startups around the world using AI for little robots that do food delivery, and AI systems that can analysis medical scans to find cancer better than human technicians. Surely it would much cheaper than any other solution.
wait wait... "why are there so many.." really? i mean.. we know why though right? it's really very unfortunate, (no not unfortunate; tragic, saddening, and heartbreaking) that people today have suffer this, it's not fair for them, but we all know why.
@@12tanuha21 The Allies ariel bombs parts of Germany including some cities in World War I. Nothing like what occurred in WWII, but it happened. The Rhineland and the Ruhr in western Germany like the city of Saarbrucken was heavily bombed in 1918. Also there are old proving grounds in which there are probably unexploded ordnance from the days of the German Empire as mentioned in the report near the beginning (time index 1:32)
Well, Germany still faces a significant problem with unexploded ordnance from World War II. Thousands of tons of bombs are discovered each year, requiring ongoing clearance efforts. It's a dangerous task, but necessary for safety.
Ukraine has it bad i am sure, and i dont want to downplay things. But i believe there are no bombings of entire cities like in WW2 in germany. In germany so many cities were bombed over and over by plane. Resulting in the often total destruction ov nearly every single house. There were so many bombs dropped over germany. In Ukraine there are more rockets and drones. I think russian bombers would just be shot down way too easily by AA weapons. And yes there have been bombings but noting even close to what cities in germany have seen.
That's why fighting by swords was the best warfare and safe for future generations. It was also low cost and doesn't hurt the economy as much as machine warfare.
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true, but Germany is the country most effected by the effects aerial carpet bombing. Considering how long the war is already over the contamination levels in Germany are still surprisingly high.
Maybe, but right now it is the only shell that actually is most effective against the large number of russians on mass. And it doesn't make alot of difference after the war since thanks to Russia Ukraine is the most mined country in world, with anti-tank and anti-personal mines. Cluster ammunition doesn't even come close to the numbers of mines.
A so called “First World” country is unable to locate the bombs of wars of fought a century ago? So Ukraine is certainly screwed. One estimate in Dutch news said it could take up to 750 years to clean Ukraine up at the pace we currently can. Does anyone document where and when a mine or cluster bomb was planted or ejected? Because otherwise Ukraine will become one huge mined buffer zone between the West and Russia…
"One estimate in Dutch news said it could take up to 750 years to clean Ukraine up" and that is just the corruption. Nobody knows how long it will take to clean up the bombs.
@@GrantDWilliams82 Well apparently more than a hundred years, as is the case in Germany with ordinances of the first and second world war? But the 750 years are figurative of course. It would mean this war could leave huge parts of Ukraine uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
this can hardly be compared, there is (thankfully!) no aerial carpet bombing going on, which is the main issue here. Unexploded artillery munition and mines are still a problem, but only restricted to the areas near the front, also they don't dig themself in as deep as aerial bombs sometimes can. Yes in theory the use of mines etc is documented ( you don't want your own guys to run into it) but in practice i believe the data will often be incomplete.
can't really be a growing problem unless you are leaving new bombs around Germany. It kind of has to be a shrinking problem for every bomb defused, unless you are repeatedly being bombarded to this day.
you misunderstand- it is a growing problem because more of the bombs are resurfacing than before / are in a more dangerous state. so yes, there are fewer and fewer, but we were seeing fewer "grow back" before. so it is a growing problem in terns of seeing the full issue arise.
The growing problem, that is kinda mentioned in the video, is that the bombs are getting old. With time the metal and other parts start to rust away and loose their integrety. So bombs are more likely to just explode by themselfs or be extremely difficult do defuse if possible at all. That is the growing problem. The bombs over all get less over time. Not by that much since there are just so many. But they are getting much more dangerous.
In my city too (Kiel) an unexploded bomb is found on average every month. Experts estimate that around 10 to 12 percent of all bombs dropped did not explode. It will certainly take decades until all of them are found. Kie was bombed very often and heavily because of the naval shipyard (submarine building). The problem is not getting any smaller, as many bombs are now in very poor condition and defusing them is becoming increasingly difficult.
Here in Hamburg, we still find a bomb or two in basically all construction sites! its insane how many unexploded bombs are left in the ground, honestly!
Big respect to the experts that remove them time and time again.
In my hometown in Germany they find bombs every few weeks evscuating whole neighbourhoods.
80 years on and there's still many left - it show how large the challenge will be in Ukraine after the war is over.
It is much easier when you can do it quickly and when you have better images. Even today they study old aerial pictures from after WW2 air raids to find where unexploded bombs may be. Today when an unexploded bomb rips a small crater into the ground, people mark the spot by taking pictures on their cellphones that have time, date, and GPS location in the metadata.
The problem is the booby traps and minefields and other nasty stuff that fascist russians actively bury and hide in fascist russia controlled areas.
Yea they are screwed
It might not be as bad as we think. I say that because modern explosives have better detonation and stuff. Less likely to fail. Doesn't mean Ukraine won't have to deal with unexploded bomb. Just that it won't be as bad as say the aftermath of Korea or WW2.
@@Spartan265 I think the main thing is camera phones. Intentionally hidden land mines and booby traps remain a problem. But unexploded bombs, grenades and rockets, these still punch a noticeable hole in the ground. Then it needs to overgrow and be forgotten. But if people take pictures or you have tons of drone footage, you know exactly where to look.
Useing Soviet ammo with up to 25% failure rate
Hasty mine fields set up
Air and artillery minefields
No construction work in my hometown without a search for ordnance! Nuremberg was destroyed about 93%. It is estimated that a large portion did not explode, due to soft sandy ground.
If that is true, where they held the Nuremberg trials?
@@rikuvakevainen6157 In one of the last standing justice buildings in Germany. The Justiz Palast in Nuremberg and the close by prison did not get hit by bombs. The room 600, where the trials have been held is still in its original condition and a memorial.
@@rikuvakevainen6157 Please google Nuremberg after WW II, pics and see by yourself.
@@rikuvakevainen6157 tf are you balthering about 🤡
Yep, this is pretty normal here. When you first get here it's shocking but then again so are the buildings that are still damaged or built upon, even replaced, looking out of place from all the bombings during the wars. There is a ton of history here.
It has to become law that all construction projects require a search for unexploded ordinance using ground penetrating radar. If deep excavation is involved then this will require repeated passes with ground penetrating radar. This is no different then requiring archaeology survey before construction. It should be part of the Environmental Assessment process.
right, because building new buildings isn't expensive enough already
@@leonkrug4841 the cost would be inconsequential relative to the building costs. Ground penetrating radar is used at most building sites to identify the location of existing utilities. A few thousand dollars vs a few million for the building. And what cost do you assign to a human life if a excavator or pilon hits a bomb. It's a very simple and low cost solution.
@@leonkrug4841Yeah but having a bomb blow up under your building will probably cost even more. It's just common sense to check for explosives.
Here in London WW2 bombs are found every couple of years, nowhere as bad as in German cities. There are areas that are known to have UXBs such as Leyton Marsh which was used as a rubble dump.
I live in Hannover, and there have been two bomb discoveries in this year alone which required a safety radius of 1 km.
I remember watching the series 'Danger UXB' on PBS, back when Anthony Andrews was such a heartthrob. Americans are so insulated from the consequences of war on one's home ground.
100-200 kilotons of unexploded bombs!
Germany certainly has a history.
This is trivial compared to Laos. Laos holds a world record: the most bombed country in the world. 7.7 million tons of explosives were dropped in Laos, a country that America had not declared a war with, by more than 580,000 air missions by the US Airforce on Laos between 1964 and 1973 during the Vietnam War. That’s more than three times the amount of bombs dropped in all theaters of World War II. Each bomb contained numerous bomblets so that more surface of the land was covered. There are still 80 million bomblets that never went off remain live, buried over 35% of land area of Laos. A staggering 270 million bomblets were dropped in a country with a population of 2.5 million, to carpet a huge buffer zone to prevent weaponries to reach Vietnam. By 1975, 1/10th of Laos population was killed, 1/5th of the population wounded. Most Americans don’t even know about this secret war.
wow, that's a shocking and tragic piece of history. Laos definitely endured a tremendous amount of devastation during that time.
@@Suto_Ko Even today people get injured after accidentally step on the bomblets. At current effort, it will take another 200 years to clear up those UXO.
The anti war protesters in US. barely had any rallies a few about Cambodia. Lots of students in zeuro and U.S. protested about Vietnam of course. zthankfully that war ended. U.S. cancelled its Draft in early 1970s and US. involvement supposedly ended too.
Rip to all those affected by unexploded bombs Imagine how bad it will be in Ukraine but nobody is ready to talk peace.
Sad Ukraine new battle ground usa nato Proxi war 😷
This complements your previous documentary on this subject well. As usual, the minds that need to "conquer and destroy" wreck havoc among us, and as usual those who wish to live a peaceful life must endure in this case, the fall-out of war. We are all "collateral damage" and never mind the ones who say "This is good for you" or "Our destiny"
yeah, it's unfortunate how innocent people often bear the brunt of conflicts. "Collateral damage" is a tragic reality, and the pursuit of peace should always be the priority.
Land mine fields are often the problem more so than unexplosive bombs as well as training fields. As it was also in Korea as well. My father's job was jeep driver for Korean Ally officers during the initial days of the end of the Korean war. He was told to take a particular route which it was discovered to be a minefield that had not been cleared. Fortunately God protected my father and the officer.
Wow, that's a fortunate escape for your father and the officer, Land mine fields can indeed pose significant dangers, and proper clearance is crucial. Safety precautions and thorough training are essential to mitigate risks.
"Why are there so many explosives lying around in Germany?" Uh, I can think of one reason...
an explosive expert told me the german bombs were better quality ie more likely to detonate than allied
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@@sand8777not funny people are dying
yeah de"mining" and ptsd will be the longest lasting sideeffects of this insanity!
Every year in Tunisia we hear about someone finding a bomb that goes back to WW2,in 2013 a bomb killed one person and injured his friend.
WTF bro it's mine
In the 80s while station in Heilbronn a construction project found a bomb from when the city was leveled by the RAF
No mention is made of how the bombs are located.
Bomber Harris. " Sow the wind reap the whirlwind" it is amazing that so many UXB are dealt with without loss of life.
I was a US Army Military Police in Germany during the 90's. We found old ordnance on many occasions. This is nothing new.
I am more worried about the chemical weapons you dropped in the baltic sea.
They should voice more opposition for use of cluster munitions then.
The argument against giving cluster munitions to Ukraine doesn't make any sense. The concern is that civilians will be killed by unexploded cluster bombs after the war ends right? But while the war goes on Russia is killing thousands of civilians, and the longer it goes on the more they will kill. Not to mention the Russians are also dumping mines all over the place which are way worse than cluster munitions because they are designed to sit dormant until disturbed. If you want to save as many civilians as possible then the best way to do that is to end the war as quickly as possible by giving Ukraine anything that will help them win.
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I hope our friends in Germany are very careful. A lot of people on RUclips have no idea the reality of WW2, the Holocaust, and how many people sacrificed their lives, and families.
What a mess. Ukraine will be going through this decades from now, too. And right now their problem makes Germany's problems, in this respect, practically a no op. It seems like equipping these crews with metal detectors might prove useful.
Theres a big problem in germany with bombs, On september 30th 2023, everyone got evacuated in a meter of 50 Meters, i got affected, the fact i lived on the exact street with the bomb, i was horrified, First time i got evacuated, it took from 14:00 (2pm) to 22:00 (10pm) to be unfused, i thought, what if they dont have a successful unfusion?
Im curious how much unexploded bombs are in Laos
The sins of war are always with us.
Why not develop little robots that can use ground penetrating radar to scan all the ground?
There are different startups around the world using AI for little robots that do food delivery, and AI systems that can analysis medical scans to find cancer better than human technicians. Surely it would much cheaper than any other solution.
wait wait... "why are there so many.." really? i mean.. we know why though right? it's really very unfortunate, (no not unfortunate; tragic, saddening, and heartbreaking) that people today have suffer this, it's not fair for them, but we all know why.
One would think lidar/ground penetrating scan from a drone but what do I know
The guy speaking in 7:45 is only 45 years old? How stressful is his job? 😆
Wen Germany safe? Americans would like to visit
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So the war continues….😢
what's years is this war happened?
1939-1945
Thank you of the news it's have a long time
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Uhhhh, I think history has your answer to all the UXOs.
Who would know those bomb could explode 80 yers later...😱
The Amazing thing is that some of these bombs date back to World War I!
@@arrow1414 During WW1 the Germans were able to keep the battlefields outside of Germany.
@@12tanuha21
The Allies ariel bombs parts of Germany including some cities in World War I. Nothing like what occurred in WWII, but it happened. The Rhineland and the Ruhr in western Germany like the city of Saarbrucken was heavily bombed in 1918.
Also there are old proving grounds in which there are probably unexploded ordnance from the days of the German Empire as mentioned in the report near the beginning (time index 1:32)
Well, Germany still faces a significant problem with unexploded ordnance from World War II. Thousands of tons of bombs are discovered each year, requiring ongoing clearance efforts. It's a dangerous task, but necessary for safety.
Germany..... Imagine Ukraine
Ukraine has it bad i am sure, and i dont want to downplay things. But i believe there are no bombings of entire cities like in WW2 in germany. In germany so many cities were bombed over and over by plane. Resulting in the often total destruction ov nearly every single house. There were so many bombs dropped over germany.
In Ukraine there are more rockets and drones. I think russian bombers would just be shot down way too easily by AA weapons. And yes there have been bombings but noting even close to what cities in germany have seen.
That's why fighting by swords was the best warfare and safe for future generations. It was also low cost and doesn't hurt the economy as much as machine warfare.
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And this is not a typical German problem, war left it's mark all over the world❗
true, but Germany is the country most effected by the effects aerial carpet bombing. Considering how long the war is already over the contamination levels in Germany are still surprisingly high.
@@tzarcoal1018 Did you never heard of Vietnam❓
That's why in today's times Cluster Bombs must be totally banned and not used at all in war. Like in the current Russia - Ukraine war. 🙏
Maybe, but right now it is the only shell that actually is most effective against the large number of russians on mass. And it doesn't make alot of difference after the war since thanks to Russia Ukraine is the most mined country in world, with anti-tank and anti-personal mines. Cluster ammunition doesn't even come close to the numbers of mines.
@Broskisnowski nah, right now a Russian one, they are getting the Shrapnel of the american made cluster bombs 🙂
A so called “First World” country is unable to locate the bombs of wars of fought a century ago? So Ukraine is certainly screwed. One estimate in Dutch news said it could take up to 750 years to clean Ukraine up at the pace we currently can. Does anyone document where and when a mine or cluster bomb was planted or ejected? Because otherwise Ukraine will become one huge mined buffer zone between the West and Russia…
"One estimate in Dutch news said it could take up to 750 years to clean Ukraine up" and that is just the corruption. Nobody knows how long it will take to clean up the bombs.
You actually think that a mine or a cluster bomb will remain explosive for 750 years?
@@GrantDWilliams82 Well apparently more than a hundred years, as is the case in Germany with ordinances of the first and second world war? But the 750 years are figurative of course. It would mean this war could leave huge parts of Ukraine uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
this can hardly be compared, there is (thankfully!) no aerial carpet bombing going on, which is the main issue here. Unexploded artillery munition and mines are still a problem, but only restricted to the areas near the front, also they don't dig themself in as deep as aerial bombs sometimes can. Yes in theory the use of mines etc is documented ( you don't want your own guys to run into it) but in practice i believe the data will often be incomplete.
WW1 shells still explode
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This is the future of Ukraine, only much worst.
The why should be obvious, they did start and lose the last World War. They had so much ordnance dropped on their country
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can't really be a growing problem unless you are leaving new bombs around Germany.
It kind of has to be a shrinking problem for every bomb defused, unless you are repeatedly being bombarded to this day.
you misunderstand- it is a growing problem because more of the bombs are resurfacing than before / are in a more dangerous state.
so yes, there are fewer and fewer, but we were seeing fewer "grow back" before. so it is a growing problem in terns of seeing the full issue arise.
The growing problem, that is kinda mentioned in the video, is that the bombs are getting old. With time the metal and other parts start to rust away and loose their integrety. So bombs are more likely to just explode by themselfs or be extremely difficult do defuse if possible at all.
That is the growing problem. The bombs over all get less over time. Not by that much since there are just so many. But they are getting much more dangerous.
In my city too (Kiel) an unexploded bomb is found on average every month. Experts estimate that around 10 to 12 percent of all bombs dropped did not explode. It will certainly take decades until all of them are found. Kie was bombed very often and heavily because of the naval shipyard (submarine building). The problem is not getting any smaller, as many bombs are now in very poor condition and defusing them is becoming increasingly difficult.