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Old 14th Mar 2012, 12:44
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Postman Plod
 
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they were loaded at Ascension and cross-decked to Hermes from 18th May.

It was a lightweight fast moving programme, although I did pick up on a few things.

The one outstanding question was around the Argentine bombs. I'd always been under the impression they were dropped too low to properly fuse, however the bomb disposal chap on the programme last night suggested that the bomb dropped on RFA Sir Galahad in San Carlos that failed to explode was properly fused, and would have gone off if knocked. So if fused, why didn't it go off, and was this also the case with the other bombs? In other words, was the low level fusing more complex than perhaps previously presented?
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