A German rope-bomb system was intended to disrupt Britain's electrical grid. A rope-bomb attack is expected to disrupt the grid while costing many of the aircraft involved. British plans to use Lysanders to disperse mustard gas faced a comparable problem of aircraft survivability. A slow aircraft flying over a defended battlefield would be vulnerable even if it released its load. These proposals illustrate how both sides contemplated methods with severe consequences for the people expected to deliver them.
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Electrical-grid attacks and British mustard-gas plans
Proposed attacks on the power grid and Lysander mustard-gas sorties exposed their own aircraft to heavy losses.