DIRECTED TORPEDO.
TURNING SHIP FOLLOWED. SECRET TEST TO BE HELD. Australian Press Association —United Service LONDON, Oct. 11. Submarine expei'ts from the Admiralty will to-morrow witness secret trials of a Chilean destroyer which was built at Thornvcroft's yards. She is equipped with the latest and fastest 21-inch torpedo, and has a speed of 45 knots. The tests will include angle- firing, one of the marvels of ri-rent developments. An instrument directs the torpedo's course, so that if a ship dodges the torpedo turns correspondingly
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 13
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84DIRECTED TORPEDO. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 13
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