ELECTRIC TORPEDO.
IMPROVEMENT ON COMPRESSED AIR. CAPABLE OF CONCEALED APPROACH. (Received Thursday, 7.0 p.m.) LONDON, March 21. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Naval correspondent .says 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 can exceed 30 miles an hour, which is very dangerous to slow-mov-ing 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 has betrayed the firing.
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Wairarapa Age, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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