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06-11-2024 15:00 To prevent avalanches on Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, people used a 1950’s howitzer. In combat, people used it as an anti-aircraft weapon, and now it is keeping a nearby village safe. The howitzer fires a shell which starts a small avalanche. These are safe and prevent too much […]
06-11-2024 15:00 Mount Elbrus is Europe’s highest mountain, and it is in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains. To prevent avalanches in the mountains, people use a 1950’s howitzer. In war, people used it against aircraft, and now, it is keeping a nearby village safe. It fires bombs which start small, safe avalanches. The smaller avalanches do not […]