NEW PROJECTILE
GREAT ARMOUR PIERCER.
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
Received this day at 1.5 p.rn.) LONDON, March 31
Sir Robert Hadfield disclosed at the anilual meeting that Had fields liaci produced a new type of projectile, capable of perforating the best barefaced armour over a foot in thickness. inclined at thirty degrees, at a, velocity equivalent to a range of fifteen thousand ylardsl. The time occupied in piercing the armour plato was l-200th. of a- second.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320401.2.57
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1932, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
78NEW PROJECTILE Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1932, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in