Fort Aubin Neufchateau Belgium

fort exterior	battered concrete	tour guide
tongeren eben emael vise aubin neufchateau pontisse barchon liers lantin loncin hollogne liege evegnee battice	Flemalle Boncelles embourg chaudfontaine vesdre pepinster tancremont comblain au port sougne remouchamps	plan
plan	looking down the stairs	looking up the stairs from the main entrance
The long tunnels underground	The central radio (Wireless) 5kW inside the fort Aubin-Neufchateau of 1939 by Joseph Weron	plan of stairway straight up
Looking up the stairway to the mortar battery	guided tour	lift for 81mm mortar bombs, 30 per minute
looking down the tunnel towards the protected bats	looking up the gun tower	plan of the gun tower artillery
location of the gun tower	inside the showers (one shower per 2 weeks)	The 3cyl Generator
One of the two generators	Electircal generator	Detail of cylinder head
Detail of cylinder head	Lichtmaschine	elektrischer generator
Germany had "bunker busters" in WW2. Ever heard of the Rochling anti-concrete shell? It was developed by 1940 but not used until after France and Belgium had fallen to test its capabilities. The shell could pass through 3 meters of earth, 36 meters of concrete, a layer of broken stone, a gun casement, and into the floor beneath with ONE shot!!! The Germans amassed 8,000 of these secret chrome-vanadium steel shells but few were used out of fear of one falling into the hands of the Allies and copied. Yet several were fired against the fortress at Brest-Litovsk with devastating results. After that, only Hitler could give permission to use the weapon or not. So, all in all, the Rochling served very well itself and as inspiration for two other shells that were also fired in anger. It's amazing how the US can just come up with the term "bunker buster" when Germany had them in WW2. Second, NONE of the US bunker busters penetrated the German Superbunker Q4 in Baghdad, nor any of the other 80 tons of munitions dropped on it. As a weapon against THAT German-built target the bunker buster was a failure. And the designer even gave interviews BEFORE the air war that NO WEAPON of the US would penetrate HIS design. He was right. Supercavitating Penetrator Bomb? the concept works for Russian rocket-torpedoes (Shkval), can it be made to work for an earth/concrete-penetrating bomb? Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) more info on my blog HERE
Roechling in the floor	Roechlin projectile in the floor	Looking at the roof ... the hole where the Roechling bomb came in
remnants of winglets	inside the chapel	We can see the way out
We are locked in	Coming out the other end	happily back in the warmth
Walking out	Roechling R”chling	Roechling Röchling projectile
Photo of battered iron	every hit was very loud	Jules Ghislain Hubert Joseph Goffin -- Fouron le Comte 1943
Docteur Goffin	Modell of the fort	fort of neufchateau (we came out the bottom left)

Mine of Blegny

old Locomotive at the	Details of mine locomotive	New motorbike and old buildings of Blegny coal mine
Maison du peuple	Church