WAR WITH AIRSHIPS

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12851, 9 July 1907, Page 6

WAR WITH AIRSHIPS

Mr Hudson Maxim, the maxiraite and stabilJitc, foreeeei -JL immediately one belligerent" wgX. balloons and airship-s tor attatkTJ other will havo thoni abo. 'Toco(i(. is the rule in war as in boxing," marks. "Armed with light -iapiu4_-|! these airships would meet and JM each other in tho t-ky. bhoujd -J escape and succeed iv getting -,|ja the enemy's works with dynamite, 1 * damage they would inflict oou«l,|j only local. 11' v liun.dred aii-akk carrying ton tons of dynamite, wtjt| pass our coast fortifications and -|ja their explosives, there would bo siderable harm done. We also Mj liavo a squadron to intercept but, supposing wo did not, mahk can Are at an angle of 45deg., aadl airships could not always bo j|«i sin head and out of range of all tbe'eli guns and warships. At somo tin-elk could be shot at, and a shrapnel if ing near a balloon or airship 3 bring it down. If a balloon- su«*j|{ in getting just where it could ji* submarine, and drop a projectiaa'w it, of oounso the submarine, if, tMp would be defenceless. But that'll of craft is never unaccompanied. t$ ship or shore -some gun would at 1 same moment have an opportune! fire at the object in the air. "A ever we make a new engine of.-tiM make another to destroy it. Jm after th© torpedo-boat came the A pedo-boat destroyer. As soon mm ships are used in war there will Ml ship destroyers to meet them iiv'M own element. Reliance will •*-£} placed on gun* below oh land."\sP