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dbeards t1_it9asox wrote

I don’t know much about tunnel digging, but it feels like the engineering know-how and equipment required to pull that feat off would probably cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $71.6 million.

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Good_nuff t1_it9cqke wrote

It was a 2.3 ft square 264 ft long tunnel. Prisoners of war have done that shit without real tools. And it doesn’t cost $71.6 mil to rent a small building.

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AnthillOmbudsman t1_it9l0m1 wrote

*sound of Redditors getting out tape measures to see if they'd fit in there*

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RockItGuyDC t1_it9kx0x wrote

You're a government contractor, aren't you? Must be if you're quoting number like that.

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dromni t1_it9e94s wrote

As you can see in the Netflix documentary (see my other comment) the tunnel was pretty narrow and excavated by hand. It wasn't like in that Top Secret scene.

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2wedfgdfgfgfg t1_it9xx3o wrote

They got Charles Bronson to do most of the heavy digging.

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