FIELD GUN
WITH FIFTEEN-MILE RANGE.
POWERFUL AMERICAN . WEAPON. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, Juno 26. The Artillery Board, has disclosed that a new 155 millimetre field gun in tests fired a 1001 b shell over 15 miles and blew a hole 16 feet in the ground. The shot was the longest ever fired from a standard United States field piece. The weapon has been adopted ns the standard for long-range fire and is now being turned out in undisclosed numbers. It weighs 15 tons and is mounted on a 10-wheel carriage capable of travelling at 12 miles an hour. The army has perfected a powerful 37-millimetre anti-tank gun. The projectile penetrates 11--inch armourplate two-thirds of a mile away.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 5
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117FIELD GUN Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 5
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