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- From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
- Subject: Re: Gold dust a fire hazard?
- Message-ID: <BxsK6H.MrI@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Summary: The metal of Sheffield didn't burn
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1du09jINNq08@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov13.144439.2924@fid.morgan.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:23:04 GMT
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- Since this is a sci. group, it's worth putting in a token denial of the
- statements that the metal of the destroyer Sheffield burned
- after it was hit by an Exocet. This has been gone over endlessly in
- sci.military, and consensus is very strongly that it didn't happen that way.
- I am a great deal less sure of another point: while Sheffield was designed
- with a very high aluminum content, I believe there was actually very much less
- than intended when she entered combat.
-
- Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.us
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