WORLD'S GREATEST SEARCHLIGHT.
WAR OFFICE TEST. FRIBS i»»OCUTIOS—»I.*CT*tO • TBLXCUUPH— COPTXIOJIT ) • LONDON. December 3. A searchlight equipped with- 300 small mirrors, thro wine a 3000 candlepower beam in the form of a pattern 16,000 feet skyward, enabling a raiding aeroplane's position to be plotted in the air in the same manner as artillery targets are plotted on map squares, has been successfully tested by the Wa is ■ the most powerful in the world. The power ot J® a ™ can be gathered from the fact tliat at a range of five miles a newspaper can Officii Wireless message reports that it is claimed that as the S height, and direction. of an aerophuie'oan be calculated within a,mn«e of the time it is ocated by the beam, the new searchlight constitutes n valuable defence.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20412, 5 December 1931, Page 15
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