"CURTAIN" OF WIRE STRANDS AS COUNTER TO AERIAL RAIDS
(Beceived 7, HJ) a.m.) LONDON, Ang. The Star, referring to Sir Thonlas Inskip's declaration in the Hoosa of Commons that Britain had fotmdi a means of killing air-raids, raggests that the invention oi Ke Harry Grindell MatthewS has tom adopted. The -invention consistB Oi apparatus for firing rockets carrying parachutes, each equipped With jmmerous strands of iriillfid fkt with fretsaw-like teeth, the wiri varying in lengths from 2500 ts 1000 feet. The parachutes can ht released at heights up to 80,000 feet and would fonn a plaas-pcoof curtain, as the sharp wire would cut the wings and entangle ths p*opellors of the raiders. Mr Matthews says that the apparatus is most mobile and can he used from any vehicle from a battleship to a motor-car. The rockets will take only a few minutes to fire and will reach 30,000 feet in 25 eeconds.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 5
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152"CURTAIN" OF WIRE STRANDS AS COUNTER TO AERIAL RAIDS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 5
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