NEW ZEALAND INVENTOR
AERIAL TORPEDO DIRECTED FROM THE GROUND. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 10. The ‘ .Daily Express states that Captain A. J. Roberts, of Wellington, New Zealand, lias invented a non-in-torfcrablo aerial torpedo which can be directed from the ground, but cannot be controlled by any influence apart Horn the individual in charge of the apparatus. .It will he demonstrated at the end of the month before the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Post Office. Captain Roberts, in an interview, stated that the device was a miniature aeroplane resembling the torpedo fired from a warship. It could be loaded with, high explosives and launched against hostile aircraft. It could bo manoeuvred until it rammed tho enemy. There was uo difficulty in controlling this air torpedo for a distance of 100 miles, lint the best results would bo obtained when the objective was within the sight of the operator. Tho cost of tho air torpedo would he a little more than that of a motor bicycle.
Captain Roberts invented tho first wireless torpedo used at sea in the early experiments at Sydney in 1906. A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 5
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