Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015)
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Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015)
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#2Fascinating. Some more here: https://addpmp.slamjam.com/index/camouflaged-swiss-bunkers
Would make a great backdrop to a Wes Anderson film
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#3I was in many of them, one of the most impressive was "the 5-star hotel" with a hall so big that you could calibrate tank-cannons and in another "bunker/fortress" you could "throw" out f-18 fighter-jets.
Edit: BTW that the entrance of the 5-Star:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Me...
The plate is for making fun of new recruits because it's the opposite of a "5-Star" and for sure not a "Hotel"
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#4But what about air flow / ventilation in these? Many seem to have no windows.
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#5But what about air flow / ventilation in these? Many seem to have no windows.
It's made with ventilation thru hidden inlets (often hundreds of meters away), the outlets are over pressure protected, when a explosion outside goes off those then close, so the inhabitants have no eardrum rapture, in the case of nuclear/chemical/bio attack you attach big filters to the inlets. In some Bunkers the circulation is so bad, that after 2 week sleeping on your mattress mold starts to grow in it (bunkerhusten (bunkercough) is common after 1-3 weeks because of that mold), natural fortresses/bunkers drip water quite allot from the ceiling, but sleeping and living "rooms" are normally plastered or with concrete walls.
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#6Looks like anyone wanting to invade is in for a rough patch, but maybe modern tech renders these types of things worthless.
Considering what a rough time the US (and Russia) has had in Afghanistan, I suspect they'd still be fairly effective.
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#7But what about air flow / ventilation in these? Many seem to have no windows.
It's made with ventilation thru hidden inlets (often hundreds of meters away), the outlets are over pressure protected, when a explosion outside goes off those then close, so the inhabitants have no eardrum rapture, in the case of nuclear/chemical/bio attack you attach big filters to the inlets. In some Bunkers the circulation is so bad, that after 2 week sleeping on your mattress mold starts to grow in it (bunkerhus…
> It's made with ventilation thru hidden inlets (often hundreds of meters away), the outlets are over pressure protected, when a explosion outside goes off those then close, so the inhabitants have not eardrum rapture, in the case of nuclear/chemical/bio attack you attach big filters to the inlets.
Maybe a stupid question, I understand that with Swiss Conscription this is perhaps common knowledge for a large chunk of the Swiss population. Nevertheless is this really public knowledge? As in, should you really be disclosing how bunker ventilation operates, and the additional protection mechanisms etc.?
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#8Also an interesting fact: The Swiss packed all bridges connecting Switzerland to Germany with tons of explosives until just recently. The wooden bridge [0] connecting Bad Säckingen with Stein contained hundreds of kilo of TNT until 2015.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzbr%C3%BCcke_Bad_S%C3%A4cki...
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#9Oh these are cool. When I was a teen, I stayed in one during a trek in the Alps; and then again (in another one) a few years later when I was a youth camp counselor myself. I was cooking dinner in the kitchen of the one we were staying at, and the supervisor came in, and casually told us "see that trap door you're standing on? If this bunker would actually be used during war, that's where any dead bodies would be stored in." Made for great "scary stories" around the campfire.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's made with ventilation thru hidden inlets (often hundreds of meters away), the outlets are over pressure protected, when a explosion outside goes off those then close, so the inhabitants have no eardrum rapture, in the case of nuclear/chemical/bio attack you attach big filters to the inlets. In some Bunkers the circulation is so bad, that after 2 week sleeping on your mattress mold starts to grow in it (bunkerhus…
> It's made with ventilation thru hidden inlets (often hundreds of meters away), the outlets are over pressure protected, when a explosion outside goes off those then close, so the inhabitants have not eardrum rapture, in the case of nuclear/chemical/bio attack you attach big filters to the inlets. Maybe a stupid question, I understand that with Swiss Conscription this is perhaps common knowledge for a large chunk of…
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