FLYING TANKS.—Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. Rigg, of the office of the United States Army Chief of Staff, has predicted that tanks will fly “within a generation.” He illustrated an article in “Armor Magazine” with this drawing. According to Colonel Rigg, flying tanks would make land mines, rivers, bridges, and ridges obsolete as barriers and would virtually eliminate the military use of roads.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27824, 24 November 1955, Page 5
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61FLYING TANKS.—Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. Rigg, of the office of the United States Army Chief of Staff, has predicted that tanks will fly “within a generation.” He illustrated an article in “Armor Magazine” with this drawing. According to Colonel Rigg, flying tanks would make land mines, rivers, bridges, and ridges obsolete as barriers and would virtually eliminate the military use of roads. Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27824, 24 November 1955, Page 5
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