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To: from occupied ga
Blowing up a dam is a very difficult proposition becasue they are very large tough structures - this was tried during WWII and it took very special bombs and delivery systems to damage a dam.

It took a special delivery system because the other side was shooting back!

BTW, the big secret was set the bomb off close to the base of the dam. This is a piece of cake when you can simply motor up to the face of the damn dam and scuttle your boat.

Heck, since you don't have to get the charge into a light enough package to airlift, you can "use enough dynamite, there Butch"...

102 posted on 05/29/2007 1:57:39 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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To: null and void
It took a special delivery system because the other side was shooting back!

Wrong. It took a special delivery system because of the minimum size of the bomb necessary to cause damage.

This is a piece of cake when you can simply motor up to the face of the damn dam and scuttle your boat.

Not that easy - I was at Hover dam last year and noticed that there were armed patrol craft making sure that no boats got too close.

120 posted on 05/30/2007 4:15:32 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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