ORAC,
The incident with Illustrious and the 28lb practice bomb was caused by a glitch in the WAC software, which failed to 'lay off" for the splash target. The bomb hit plumb centre of the flight deck (between the tramlines!) and had it been a concrete 1000lber, would have exited the ship below the waterline on the stbd side. An HE bomb would have crippled the ship, even if it hadn't set off the LOX plant, which was only 30' forward!
It was a very good example of the accuracy that the SHAR was regularly achieving with the LOFT delivery and I certainly put a live 1000lber down the funnel of ?Lowestoft? - the centre of a stick of 3.
Swing the lamp!