THE SUPER-GUN AN ABSURDITY.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 July 1919, Page 5

THE SUPER-GUN AN ABSURDITY.

l .———o——— 1 The United States Ordnance Departtmcnt has made complete and elaborate {designs of a gun that? Wollld throw it !shell a distance of 125 miles. Natur|al]y the Wm-k'will go’ no further than lthe drawing board, for it was merely gt» prove the absurdity, and fat -the ‘practicability, of consltlructing‘”§uc‘h a flmcnster that the calculations were worked out. As the Scientific American says wisely: “The Allies built no su_per—l-ange guns /during the Wal‘—not because they were unable, but ‘because they had no wish to. They realisedwhen it came 60 a question of retalisation for Grerm-an bombing and shelling of unfortified cities, that the‘ airplane was infinitely more efficient than the supem-ange gun; that. for .-fhe cost of one shell dropped upon. la city by the gun, over one thousand times as much high explosive could be dropped from bombing -airplanes, ‘and let fall with greater accuracy.