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Army Research Station Kummersdorf

6. West secondary battery

This was the test site for weapons with a short firing range (infantry weapons). The facility consisted of two 25 m and 300 m shooting ranges, 3 machine gun ring ranges and ramparts. A bullet trap and a steel wind measuring tower are still relatively well preserved.

Also worth seeing is the so-called sonic cannon, a “miracle weapon”. With this, pressure waves should be bundled by means of a parabolic mirror and then transmitted:

MG ring stands:

The old wind measuring tower that is not accessible:

300 m shooting range:

Large bullet trap:

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