NEW AMERICAN BOMB
SPLIT-SECOND TIMING Rueb.v. May 27. A new kind of bomb that explodes nine-thousandths of a second after impact is being used with great success by American airmen states the ordnance section of the United States Air Service Command in Britain. American flyers can now control the explosion down to the ten-thousandth part of a second. A bomb intended to destroy machinery inside,, a factory can be timed to explode in the centre of the plant after it has penetrated the roof., but before it has passed through the building and buried itself in the ground. A mistake of a ten-lhousandth part of a second in the fuse’s time could mean that difference between destruction of the factory and merely tearing up a few yards of its roof.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 29 May 1944, Page 5
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