AIR ATTACKS
ROYAL NAVY PREPARES DEFENSIVE ARMAMENT BIG INCREASE PENDING By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 19, 5.35 p.m.) \ . LONDON. July ID The Navy is about to double, and eventually to quadruple, its antiaircraft armament, states the Daily Telegraph's naval correspondent. This is a tacit admission of the potency of air attack, which is expected to be more formidable as aviation progresses. The battleships Nelson and Rodney carry six 4.7 inch anti-aircraft guns, and other battleships and cruisers carry lin. guns. The battleships Warspite and Malaya, now undergoing refits, will be the first to have eight long-range guns. Probably the new calibre will all bo controlled as one unit, and will each bo capable of firing 80 to 100 high explosive shells a minute at a sky target to the maximum ceiling visibility. The battleships to be -laid, down in .1937 will each have 16 guns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 13
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