MOST REMARKABLE GUN
BARRAGE FOR AIRCRAFT. LATEST FOR WARSHIPS. LONDON, Jan. 9. The cruiser Sydney, with her sister ships, carries what is regarded as the world’s best anti-aircraft gun. The details now released, by the authorities have an interesting bearing on Sir Herbert Lawrence’s statement, that Britain had not purchased the best gun. The Sydney gun is regarded as the most, amazing Britain has ever invented. It. is really three guns mounted as one. They are not long range weapons, b’-it are capable of firing hundreds of high-explosive shells per minute. Bigger ships carry the same type, but eight instead of three guns are mounted as one. Experts declare that, no singlebarrelled gun, however perfect, can compete with them. Jt is almost impossible for aircraft to penetrate the barrage owing to the extraordinary volume of fire of which the gun is capable.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 3
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