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From: bnrgate!.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.UU.NET (Henry Troup)
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Subject: Re: Burning steel
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From: bnrgate!.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.UU.NET (Henry Troup)

Didn't the thermic lance originate as some kind of anti-armor weapon?

Also, they've been obsolete for safebreaking for quite a while - modern 
vaults tend to have about an inch of copper in the middle of the sandwich.
It conducts heat well enough that burning through is seriously slowed down.
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