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September 23rd 03, 02:30 AM
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In article ,
BackToNormal writes True. Where I wrote "never saw fruition" I should have written "was sidelined". Instead, he designed the spherical bomb and refined that into the cylindrical bomb used to breach the dams. Apparently the diameter of the spherical bomb with the right amount of RDX would have been too large to fit under a Lanc. It was changed to a cylinder to reduce the diameter and the spinning used to give it gyroscopic precision so it hit the water horizontal each time. -- John 
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