[quote]Some of the more than 200 pieces of World War I ammunition which emerged from a melting glacier on a Trentino mountain peak are seen, Aug. 31. Each piece weighs between 7-10 kilos, and the 85-100 mm caliber explosive devices were found at an altitude of 3,200 meters, when a once-perennial glacier on the Ago de Nardis peak partially melted due to a recent heat wave that reached into Italy's highest peaks. The Finance Police Alpine rescue unit, operating in the area between Pinzolo and Madonna di Campiglio, saw brownish metal points emerging from the ice, got a fix on them via GPS, and then extricated the ordnance. The pieces were spread over a 100-square-meter area during series of battles fought between the armies of Austria-Hungary and Italy in northern Italy between 1915 and 1918. Disposal specialists returned to dispose of the munitions.[/quote]
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Holy shit that is amazing
That's a lot of ammo.
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;37509936]That's a lot of ammo.[/QUOTE]
For the size of the battles fought in that war, it's not that great really.
That's actually pretty impressive to see.
The glaciers are preparing to attack us.
Am I looking ammunition that has not been fired or mixture of fired and not fired?
[QUOTE=Paramud;37510385]The glaciers are preparing to attack us.[/QUOTE]
Ban glaciers
there is probably plenty more considering that it's hidden under the ice
Wow, who would have guessed
Turn them all into lamps.
just wait until the skellingtons are uncovered
So global warming [I]does[/I] have some positive effects.
iirc you can still find barbed wire on the peaks there from WW1, I wouldn't be surprised if they found more things there such as grenades there, the alpen front in WW1 was dangerous as shit.
I spot AK 47s
Global warming, it's a good thing.
That's pretty damn incredible. It's like the whole battlefield has just been uncovered.
[QUOTE=Careld;37510400]Am I looking ammunition that has not been fired or mixture of fired and not fired?[/QUOTE]All fired i'd imagine, just plenty of unexploded ones too.
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;37510483]Ban glaciers[/QUOTE]
Ban World War 1.
The Alpine Theatre was fucking brutal for both sides. [url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soldiers-perish-in-avalanche-as-world-war-i-rages]One avalanche that occurred in December 1916 was estimated to have killed perhaps as many as 10,000 men- many of which still remain there[/url].
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpKfUHFXV3A[/media]
They should leave as much of that expended ammunition there as they can as a memorial.
they should have left the oil in the gulf as a memorial to the fallen sea creatures
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