AIR WAR PRACTICE.
800 SHOTS FROM SHIPS AND NO HIT. - LOS ANGELES, March 26. The United States fleet, cruising 70 miles off the Californian coast, turned loose the full force of its anti-aircraft guns at targets' towed by planes at an altitude of 6000 ft. Forty-four guns, aboard 11 battleships, fired a total of 800 shots without scoring a hit. The trial occupied six minutes. Admiral Coontz, the Commander-in-Cbief, watched the proceedings aboard the California. Later the big guns fired at targets 10 miles away on the sea. The results were not revealed. Nearly 60 warships took part. As a result of the failure of the antiaircraft test firing by the United States fleet off the Californian coast, the commanders will recommend that all destroyers should be supplied with small single-seated fighting seaplanes. Experts now say the failure io hit anV of the moving targets shows that defending aeroplanes are the only means of successfully combating enemy aircraft. During the teste the aircraft “bombed” the battleships with impunity.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 April 1925, Page 5
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168AIR WAR PRACTICE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 April 1925, Page 5
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