AMERICAN ARMAMENT.
EXTENSIVE AIRCRAFT PLANS. A FIVE-YEAR PROGRAMME. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, January 26. Rear-Admiral Moffett, chief of the Navy Aeronautic Bureau, told the House Naval Committee that 759 new aeroplanes would be needed to man the five new aircraft cruisers. Twenty-six nev» cruisers were provided for in the building programme. These were additional to 1000 aeroplanes provided for in the five-year aviation programme which was now being carried out. Admiral Moffett stated that each carrier needed 75 ’planes for active service, and about half of that number in reserve, while each cruiser needed six ’planes. He assorted that each ’plane would carry a bomb capable of demolishing a cruiser.—-A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20318, 28 January 1928, Page 11
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