NEW GERMAN TORPEDO
ELECTRIC PROPULSION TRACK NOT DISCLOSED (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) LONDON, March 21. The Daily Telegraph's naval correspondent says that German experts have greatly improved the torpedo by propelling it by electricity instead of compressed air, thus eliminating the track of air bubbles which is visible to an enemy. The electric torpedo is slower than the latest compressed air torpedo, but it can exceed 30 miles an hour, which is very dangerous to slow-moving merchantmen. German naval men have also devised a method of invisible firing, by hiding the rush of air from the tube. Hitherto an upheaval on the surface betrayed firing- __
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18661, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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107NEW GERMAN TORPEDO Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18661, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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