STRONGER ARMOUR
A BRITISH DISCOVERY.
(By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) ( . (Received November 27, 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 26. The “Daily Telegraph’s” military correspondent says: In the eternal duel between armour and projectile, recent British research has resulted in a new type of armour plate. This is so much harder in proportion to its weight, that it will double the resistance to projectiles, thus giving armoured projection a lead which the projectile will find hard to overtake. The new armour plate will have a big influence in warship design and the mechanisation' of armies. Hitherto fourteen millimetres of armour was required to keep out the ordinary arm-our-piercing bullet, but the new specially hardened armour plate will permit fast light armoured tanks which can dodge and outflank the opposing anti-tank guns, and also greatly save the cost. NAVAL BASES TO CLOSE ? RUGBY, November 26. Mr. Alexander states that no decision has been taken to close the minor naval bases at Bermuda and Jamaica.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 November 1929, Page 5
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