THE NEXT WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1922, Page 5

THE NEXT WAR.

A. FASCINATING VISION. THE USE OF WIRELESS. STEER ’PLANES AND SHIPS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Aug. 2. The Air Ministry expert, interviewed, points out that, just as the Agamemnon with no one on board was steered by means of wireless operated from a torpedoboat, important experiments are being carried out in Britain with a view to the application of the same method to bombcarrying aeroplanes. In France recently, an unoccupied ’plane flew 300 miles unaided by any human agency except a wireless operator at the base. It is believed that in the near future war ’planes will be simply Hying bombs, directed at and made to discharge bombs over any distant objective with exactitude by means of wireless. There is nothing to stop such a machine except a direct hit by a land gun. Such machines could be produced most cheaply, not needing careful building or testing. It is believed the next naval war will see torpedoes ramming vessels, controlled and steered by wireless from an aeroplane thousands of feet above. Mr. Claude Graham White, interviewed, said the Agamemnon trials had proved that the nation with the largest air force would control ocean traffic in the next war. The surface of the ocean would still need guarding, but not by super-Dreadnoughts or su-per-Hoods.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.