LATEST GERMAN AIRSHIPS.
Several writers contribute to an article in the September "Windsor Magazine" on the possible development of airships in the near future for purposes of war. In the course of it it is said :
"Count Zeppelin announced some time ago that he could easily build an airship with a displacement of 30,000 cubic metres. It has also been announced that the ships now building at Germany's aerial shipyards in irricdrichshafcn arc considerably larger than those now afloat. And it is more than probable that the new craft will approach a 30,000 metre lisplacement. An airship of that size would be 510 feet long. "Now, an aerial ship 510 fctt l?.n S and 51 feet wide could carry a djz n men a mile high in the air over a radius of five hundred miles and back—that is, it could reach every principal capital of Europe from th? borders of German territory, and return. It could, in addition, devote at least five tons of cargo weight to arms and ammunition. This coild include ten machine rifles, each equipped with ammunition enough for a lull hour's work, and two machine ;uns of the type built for the Zeppelins, with two hundred shells for each, weapon. Two and a half tons of iynamite torpedoes could be sut stilted for half the machine guns and their ammunition, if it were desired to attack fortifications or cities. Forty craft of this kind could be ouilt and armed at the cost of one Dreadnought battleship. And such a Fleet, without opposition from other airships, could conquer Western Europe. The moment it is launched, :he standing armies of Europe be:omc an anachronism."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 455, 10 April 1912, Page 7
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277LATEST GERMAN AIRSHIPS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 455, 10 April 1912, Page 7
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