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Quotes from Aircraft in Warfare — Frederick W. Lanchester

1868–1946 England

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On this question of armour it cannot be too strongly insisted that anything less than the thickness necessary definitely to stop the projectile is worse than useless; a "mushroomed" bullet, possibly accompanied by a few detached fragments of steel, is infinitely more disagreeable and dangerous than a bullet which has not been upset.

Aircraft in Warfare (1916)

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