able to pulverise any structure immediately below it, and any Russians who were either in the target area or in a radius of many hundred metres were killed outright. The effect of blast wave is to remove the air from a man’s lungs and arrest his heart muscles, and death is almost immediate, although there are often no outward signs of injury. I am amazed that I did not know about this system. How often was this used on the Eastern Front? It was never actually used against Russian forces in the field, in combat. Then how were Russians killed by it? This was a controlled test. Do you
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