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Old February 28th 04, 08:38 AM
Paul J. Adam
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In message , Kevin Brooks
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True enough. But it appears the Brits cancelled their similar Merlin effort
years ago,


This was not a technical failure, but the realisation that an 81mm bomb
didn't have the lethality needed, while scaling up to 120mm was a major
retooling and a large logistic overhead.

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