ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS INEFFICIENT
VULNERABILITY OF BRITISH FLEET. TORPEDO EXPERIMENT URGED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London. February 14. Rear-Admiral-'Sir Murray Sueter, in the House of Commons debate on the proposed Ministry of Defence, declared: “If anyone says anti-aircraft guns will stop an aerial bombardment he has not the vaguest idea of what he is talking about. The Admiralty was wise in moving the fleet from Malta in view of the range performance of the Savoia bombers. No one is able to deny that a battle fleet would be unable to stay at Malta with a hostile nation near. What is true of Malta is even more true of Gibraltar, Devonport, Portsmouth, Chatham, and Sheerness.” Recalling instances of the Admiralty ignoring aerial possibilities, RearAdmiral Sueter said that three torpedodropping aircraft sent to the Dardanelles had scored three hits with three shots, but the Admiralty had refused to develop this attack. He had urged an experiment with an old battleship, made unsinkable, which airmen should bomb with armour-piercing missiles of his own design, not bombs which the Admiralty manufactured.
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Southland Times, Issue 22817, 17 February 1936, Page 7
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