AERIAL MINE
Latest Nazi Anti-Aircraft Invention SUSPENDED FROM PARACHUTE Rec. 10.30 a.m. BERNE, May 24. The latest German anti-aircraft invention consists of a floating parachute barrage, an aerial mine projected like an anti-aircraft shell, and after the explosion a cable about 230 yards long attached to a parachute is unfurled and a charge of explosive suspended from the end of the cable. It is claimed that when a plane approaches, the airstream drags the parachute forward and the explosive bursts against the plane. Its mobility makes the barrage more dangerous than fixed balloons. It is also claimed that the invention was used successfully during R.A.F. raids.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 5
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106AERIAL MINE Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 5
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