WHAT A SHELL CAN DO.
P 11.0JECTILK WEIGHING 2100111. The testing of ;i big jinn built for the I'nited Stati s Navy was recently carried out with remarkaMc re-ults. Iho gun is ('Oft. in length, weighs about SO tons.
and tires a "projectile weighing 21001b. The gun was trod with an arnior-pierc-ing shell against a l.'tin. Krupp plate. The plat • had b.'lnnd it the usual heavy bai king of limber and sand, there l>eing n mass of s.iii'l lunked up against * lie ba. king and cxt*. niiiiig sum." .il'lt. to I'bt behind it.
Tli ■ shell made a clean perforation oi tho junior, timber, and "sand backing was (b ih-etcd, and ir..veiled about thr-'o-(|iiarte: sof a mil- lartii; finally passing tlirouv.li tin' collage e! a Government employe" at the proving ground. The shell doing the enormous amount ot work involved in tho perforation of armor hacking, and sand, came to a rest laiilv intact.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 270, 27 April 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)
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153WHAT A SHELL CAN DO. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 270, 27 April 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)
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