[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 171, Issue 44

[Jeff Kruth]

I just watched Malcolms Norden Bombsight talk. I believe he said of the 10% that fell within the 700+acre site, 16 % FAILED to explode, the rest blew up!


Damage was repaired in two weeks.
 
73
Jeff Kruth
In a message dated 7/31/2018 10:27:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, milsurplus-request at mailman.qth.net writes:

 
>>TED: Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

<https://youtu.be/HpiZTvlWx2g> - when attempting to bomb a 757 acre
chemical plant in Germany over the course of 22 bombing missions (85,000
bombs) 0nly 10% landed inside the boundary and of those only 16% exploded.

An 84% dud rate? That's hard to believe. I wouldn't want to be the
one to tell that to Frank Savage!

73 Mark K3MSB

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Brooke Clarke <brooke at pacific.net> wrote:

> Hi:
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