The Dudelange Radio Tower is a 285-metre high freestanding steel framework FM radio and television transmission tower near Dudelange in Luxembourg. Dudelange Radio Tower was completed in 1957.
On 31 July 1981, a Belgian military aircraft hit the tower. Debris of the tower killed a couple in a house near the tower.
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