Improving The Torpedo
GERMAN NAVAL EXPERTS’ WORE
United Press Association.—By electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, March 21.
The Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent says that German experts have greatly improved the torpedo by propelling it by electricity, instead of compressed air, thus eliminating the track of air bubbles, which is visible to the enemy. The electric torpedo is * slower than the latest compressed air torpedo, but can exceed 30 miles an hour, which is very dangerous to slow-moving merchantmen. German naval men have also devised a method of invisible firing by hiding the rush of air from the tube. Hitherto the upheaval on the surface has betrayed the firing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 68, 22 March 1935, Page 6
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