NEW WAR TERROR
Range-Finding Device LONDON, March 25. The British Fleet is being equipped with the "predictor," a new range finding device which increases by 509 per cent the ratio of effective shots. Hitherto only about three per cent of shofs fired took effect. The new ap plianee makes 15 per cent practically certain. Jn target practice firing at an objec a mile away moving at a rate of 190 miles an hour, 29 per cent of hits was recorded. The ‘‘predictor,’’ which is operated by six men, is a kind of calculating machine for determining exactly the height and speed of a flying object. The right to utilise the patents has already been acquired by the United States and other Government*.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 95, 5 April 1934, Page 5
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122NEW WAR TERROR Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 95, 5 April 1934, Page 5
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