SNEAK BOMBERS
NEW PROBLEM FOR ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCES LONDON. Oct. 25. Fast sneak fighter-bombers which swoop across Loudon's night skies at a great height have presented British experts with a new problem, with which they are grappling. The raiders dive across the whole area, losing half their height in the plunge, which steps up their speed and makes the job of the anti-aircraft gunners more difficult. They release their bombs at random during the dive. Professor B. J. Schonland, a former professor of geophysics at Johannesburg University, and Dr D. W. Ewer, of Cambridge University, have devised new equipment which, it_ is believed, will defeat the new tactics. It consists of a means of spotting for the guns in the dark.
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Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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120SNEAK BOMBERS Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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