AERIAL TORPEDO.
SINGLE CONTROL DEVICE. INVENTED BY NEW ZEALANDER. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Aug. 10. The Daily Express says Captain A. J. Roberts, of Wellington, New' Zealand, has invented an aerial torpedo which can bo directed from the ground, but cannot bo controlled by any influence apart from the individual in charge. The apparatus will be demonstrated at the end of the month before representatives of tho Navy, Army and Air Force and the Post Office.
Captain Roberts, in an interview, said the device is a miniature aeroplane which resembles a torpedo and can be fired from a warship. It can be loaded with a high explosive, launched against hostile air craft and manoeuvred until it rams the enernv.
There is no difficulty in controlling the air-torpedo for a distance of 100 miles, but the most destructive results aro when the objective is within sight of the operator.
Tho cost of tho air torpedo is little more than that of a motor-cyclo. Captain Roberts invented the first wireless torpedo used at sea, the first experiments being held at Sydney in 1906
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13
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