Re:If Switzerland is attacked, it is literally rigged to blo...
by dm2 on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:37AM
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That use to be true, but isn't anymore.
I'm pretty sure that most of them have been removed by now and new bridges and tunnels are no longer built with explosives.
Wouldn't it be just as easy these days to just fire a few missiles at the bridges and tunnels if another country is invading? Yes, and it's much safer and much cheaper to maintain.
I'm pretty sure that most of them have been removed by now and new bridges and tunnels are no longer built with explosives.
Wouldn't it be just as easy these days to just fire a few missiles at the bridges and tunnels if another country is invading? Yes, and it's much safer and much cheaper to maintain.
I remember reading about a tunnel fire that could have set them off and would have been disasterous. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive/Lucerne_yields_up_explos...
http://www.oltnertagblatt.ch/panorama/vermischtes/armee-holt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Redoubt_(Switzerland)