The remains of an old Russian training ground, hidden in the ground, were uncovered in a field in Marchfeld. The war relics still had to be defused on site.
The experts from EOD Munitionsbergung went to Marchfeld for a highly explosive task in the true sense of the word. Because they had to search an agricultural plot of 130,000 square meters for war relics.
There are many of them; after all, the area is not called the “bomb field” for nothing.
The yield was correspondingly large. The twenty or so employees brought no less than 23 live bombs to the surface within two days. The unexploded bombs, some of which weighed 100 kilograms, were all defused by the Federal Army’s bomb disposal service. “Such a major discovery does not happen often,” says EOD director Stefan Plainer.
But why are so many war relics found there? “This area is a bombing test site,” Plainer explains. The Russians trained there in the postwar period. They set up military training grounds in fields in sparsely populated areas, usually near an airfield.
“They also used it to train their pilots,” Plainer says. The searched area may only be a small part of the area that is being shelled for training purposes. According to Plainer, four Russian airborne areas are known in Lower Austria.
In this area of Marchfeld, unexploded ordnance has been discovered repeatedly in the past. It becomes dangerous if the bombs remain stuck in the ground relatively close to the surface, because they can be triggered during plowing. “The area we investigated is now safe,” Plainer emphasizes.
Source: Krone
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