AERIAL TORPEDO BOATS.
SUCCESS OF WAR OFFICE EXPERIMENTS. By Cablet-Press Association —Copyright. Received 9.30 p.m., June 19. . LONDON, June 18. The “Daily Chronicle” says the War Office experiments, with aeri-ally-launched wirelessly - controlled projectiles, is bearing important fruit. ■ . . An entirely new type of aircraft has been tested. It is described as an air torpedo boat, which carries aloft torpedoes, with wings sustaining, the planes, and rudders and elevators like those of the ordinary aeroplane. When fired the torpedoes glide to earth, wirelessly steered from the aeroplane, towards an objective. The experiments suggest that of aerial torpedo craft could possibly destroy any objective regardless of size, at a distance of many miles.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 20 June 1924, Page 7
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110AERIAL TORPEDO BOATS. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 20 June 1924, Page 7
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