This system could even repel the blast from an RAF Tallboy. When dropped from 20,000 feet these supersonic 5 ton-bomb bomb could displace a million cubic feet of earth, creaing a crater 80 feet deep and 100 feet across.
And yet when one hit the roof of the St Nazaire submarine pen (photo above) all anyone inside heard was no louder than the discreet cough of an embarrassed butler.
- The World According To Clarkson, Volume 3.