TO SHOOT AIRSHIPS.
The latest German engine of warfare is a specially-designed motor car, which the military authorities have produced for making war on airships. This motor car is well armoured, and yet has sufficient speed to enable it to follow up a dirigible balloon in much better style than horse artillery. Its great feature, however, is a new gun, which can be tilted up to an angle of 70 degrees, and which discharges 24 shots a minute. Its range is said to be such that it can cripple any modern airship, and by the speed of the car the dirigible balloon can be pursued most effectively. Meantime, however military aeronauts are improving their vessels in rising power and speed, and thus they hope to keep in advance of the artillerists.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 4
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131TO SHOOT AIRSHIPS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 4
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