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NAVY’S ADMISSION ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARMAMENT | DOUBLED AND QUADRUPLED ■—— i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Julv 19, 7.40 p.m. LONDON, July 19. “The Navy is about to double, and eventually quadruple its antiaircraft 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 Rodney will carry six 4.7-inch anti-air-craft guns, and the other latest battleships and cruisers 4-ineh guns. The battleships Warspite and Malaya are undergoing refits, and will be the first, to have eight long-range guns, probably of the new calibre. All will be controlled as a unit, and caeh will be capable of firing 80 to 100 high explosive shells per minute at a sky target to the maximum ceiling of visibility. The battleships which are being laid down in 1937 will each have Ifi guns.’’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 9
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149MENACE FROM AIR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 9
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