ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN
MOST POWERFUL WEAPON. PERFECTED IN AMERICA. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association" WASHINGTON, November 23. The Department of War has announced t»li© perfection of a .50 calibre machine anti-aircraft gun, firing 500 shots a minute with a perpendicular range of 9000 to 12,000 feet, and a 37milhznetre anti-aircraft machine gun firing 120 shot© a minute with a perpendicular range of 14,000 feet. This weapon fires shells with such'delicatelya<3justed fuses that they explode upon contact with balloon cloth. The department is now testing another anti-aircraft gun with a perpenjdicular range of 30,000 feet. . This I weapon is considered the newest and imost powerful protection against aircraft yet devised.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11686, 26 November 1923, Page 7
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108ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11686, 26 November 1923, Page 7
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