ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS
PROTECTION FOR NAVY LONG -R ANG E FUSILLADES LONDON, July 19. The Navy is about to double, and eventually ‘ quadruple its anti-aircraft 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 Nelson and the Rodney will carry six 4.7 in. anti-aircraft guns, and the other latest battleships and cruisers 4in. guns. The battleships Warspite and Malaya, now undergoing refit, will bo the first to have eiglit long range guns, probably of new calibre, all controlled as a unit. Each will be capable ot firing 80 to ICO high explosive shells per minute at a sky target to a maximum of ceiling visibility. The battleships which are being laid down in 1937, .will eacli have 36 guns.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 5
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