The Anonymous Widower

Explosive Power

I’ve just watched an interesting program on BBC4 called Explosions: How we shook the world. It was interesting and reminds me of something I was involved in, in the early 1970s.

The British government had done a deal with Iran to sell them a factory to make Chieftain tanks.  I would have been involved in providing the project mangement software.  All I can find on the Internet is this extract from the piece in Wikipedia about the Chieftain tank.

The largest foreign sale was to Iran, which took delivery of 707 Mk-3P and Mk-5P, 125–189 FV-4030-1, 41 ARV and 14 AVLB before the 1979 revolution.[4] Further planned deliveries of the more capable 4030 series were cancelled at that point. The tank’s main combat experience was in the Iran–Iraq War of 1980-88.

But the thing I remember most about the project is a Scot telling me that the Russians had done a lot of experiments on explosives and found that the reason Scottish explosive was so good, was exactly the same reason as the whisky is best.  It’s all down to the water!

I’ll go along with that!

October 13, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Iran, Tanks