IN THE AIR
NEW cannon;?
FOR AIR FIGHTERS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received this day at 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, December 4. A small R.A.F. Force bombed railways in the Rhineland last night. British fighters are being fitted with cannon, the chief advantage of which are a longer range and damaging i over. The trajectory of machine gnu.-: used in Hurricanes and Spitfires drops sharply beyond a strictly limited Tange Fighters are finding it increasingly difficult to shoot down powerful armourplated raiders. Those equipped wifli cannon accounted recently for a i umber of raiders.
It is not permissable to state how many ehnnon the R.A.F. machines are carrying. It is believed the new armament—Hispano Suiza gun, should rr >ve more effective than eight Browning machine-guns. The 1 French found Hispano Suizzas most effective against German tanks.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1940, Page 5
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