The Swiss military has wired the entire country to blow up in case they're invaded

[mookiemookie]

To make a long story short, McPhee describes two things: how Switzerland requires military service from every able-bodied Swiss citizen—a model later emulated by Israel—and how the Swiss military has, in effect, wired the entire country to blow in the event of foreign invasion. To keep enemy armies out, bridges will be dynamited, and, when possible, deliberately collapsed onto any roads and bridges below; hills have been weaponized to be activated as valley-sweeping artificial landslides; mountain tunnels will be sealed from within to act as nuclear-proof air raid shelters; and much more.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/various-forms-of-lithic-disguise.html

I had no idea. Don't mess with the Swiss! :o

[vienna]

Yeah, and they got them knives, too... :)

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[Falkirion]

I knew there was a reason the Vatican still used them to guard the Pope.

[TLAM Strike]

When they flip the timers on will this show up on every TV in the country:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8746/destruct.gif

[Rilder]

When they flip the timers on will this show up on every TV in the country:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8746/destruct.gif

Do all the leaders in the country have to stand up and say:

"-lastname- Pie one one alpha, Confirm auto destruct sequence."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48CpCpnA3s

[TLAM Strike]

Do all the leaders in the country have to stand up and say:

"-lastname- Pie one one alpha, Confirm auto destruct sequence."

"-lastname- Pie one one alpha, Confirm auto destruct sequence."

"-lastname- Pie one one alpha, Confirm auto destruct sequence."

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ug14zd.gif

[HunterICX]

Do all the leaders in the country have to stand up and say:

"-lastname- Pie one one alpha, Confirm auto destruct sequence."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48CpCpnA3s

Needs to be more dramatic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnbnRv0EV8k&feature=player_detailpage#t=288s

HunterICX

[Rockstar]

Do all the leaders in the country have to stand up and say:

"-lastname- Pie one one alpha, Confirm auto destruct sequence."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48CpCpnA3s


A cream pie would be most fitting for this kind of event.

[Herr-Berbunch]

A cream pie would be most fitting for this kind of event.

Do you mean cream pie, or custard pie, as the two, in my mind (and no doubt Dowly's, too) are extremely different. :hmmm: Don't google the difference from work, or when the better half's around!

The Swiss also have the highest ratio of nuclear shelters per capita, although the doors on their biggest in the Sonnenberg tunnel didn't close when tested! :sunny:

[Garion]

I like mince pies (Scotch Pies to the rest of the world).. mmmm yummy

Cheers

Gary

[Oberon]

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ug14zd.gif

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120225071839/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/b/b1/Lily_Sloane.jpg/292px-Lily_Sloane.jpg

"Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf! Blow up the goddamn country!!"

http://www.swissinfo.ch/media/cms/images/keystone/2008/10/keyimg20081010_9829908_2.jpg
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" *smashes up Federal Council*

[Tribesman]

I always thought the Swiss "nuclear option" to stop any invaders in their tracks before they even thought of approaching the border was to threaten to blow up the banks and wipe all the accounts from the records.

[Kongo Otto]

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/various-forms-of-lithic-disguise.html

I had no idea. Don't mess with the Swiss! :o

Actually it's not a real new story. The swiss already had this system of defences in WW2.
The OKW had theoretic plans for invading switzerland already in 1940 but it was estimated that the German losses would be to high and therefore it was never more than an theoretical wargame.

Just for the record in Bavaria and many parts of Germany streetunnels, bridges and mountain roads have explosives chambers chambers or a prechamber shaft to blow up the tunnel or segments of an street.

prechamber shaft in street:
http://www.sperranlagen.de/images/sprengrud3.jpg

Prechamber shaft in detail:
http://www.sperranlagen.de/images/sprengrud1.jpg

even remote mountain streets had those shafts:

http://up.picr.de/5032130.jpg

Place for the firing box (the prefixed cables have been removed)
http://up.picr.de/5041037.jpg

And it looks like this when 3 of those prechamber shafts are blown up:

http://www.sperranlagen.de/images/sprengloch1.jpg

Explosives chamber in Bridge at Burglengenfeld, Bavaria
http://up.picr.de/10411520rf.jpg

Most of them have been removed in the past years but still many are to find in the land.

Trainig movie for Engineers about the topic (british army movie in german language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKf8fjbu8g