Flying Dreadnoughts
ADDITIONS TO UNCLE SAM’S NAVAL DEFENCE United Press Association— By Electrlo Telegraph.—Copyright Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. The Navy has placed orders lor 54 flying-boats similar to the huge four-motored Sikorsky flying dreadnoughts now under secret tests, says the correspondent of the United Press. The new so-called battleships of the air mount guns capable of firing 200 two-inch shells a minute, being twice as large as any weapon at present mounted. American fighting craft will also be equipped with regular machineguns and carry 2000 bombs or more.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 49, 28 February 1938, Page 6
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