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To hijack your comment: all of these type of bunkers mentioned in the article are decommissioned as they don't match the modern military doctrine. The majority
by folli 6y ago
To hijack your comment: all of these type of bunkers mentioned in the article are decommissioned as they don't match the modern military doctrine. The majority of these bunkers are artillery and anti-tank bunkers built during the cold war (some during WWII) to play a decisive role in large tank battles.
The article confuses this, as there were some plans in actually deconstructing them which however turned out to be too expensive. So virtually all of these bunkers were indeed decommissioned and most also declassified in the last 10 years (some turned into a museum e.g. a WWII bunker https://www.crestawald.ch/ https://www.crestawald.ch/). Others, such as the Castello mentioned by /u/nix23 are used as temporary barracks for troops, but don't have an actual defensive function any more.
- nix23 6y agoTrue the only still kind of used ones are the command bunkers, and even they are really outdated. >Others, such as the Castello mentioned by /u/nix23 are used as temporary barracks for troops, but don't have an actual defensive function any more. But temporary is not quite right when it's used for then first 10 weeks of recruiting school ;)
- microtherion 6y agoYes, the very pictures used in the article are evidence that the bunkers are decommissioned. Tourists who took pictures like that used to get a stern talking-to and their pictures would get confiscated.