Sunday, 29. September 2002
Topic: - on September 29, 2002 at 1:07:51 PM CEST
The bunker nightmare
As the 1999 war in Yugoslavia Ended, doors to a bunker dug deep underneath Pristina Airfield opened, and nearly a dozen unharmed Serbian MiG-21 fighters emerged to retreat from the area. The United States had repeatedly tried to destroy this series of tunnels and caves with GBU-28s, 5,000-pound precision-guided "bunker busters" developed during the Gulf War. But the best those hulking bombs could do was seal off entryways by burrowing a few feet in before exploding from the impact. The MiGs, sheltered much farther down, were untouched.
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