U.S. RADICAL ANTI-TANK WEAPON

Wanganui Chronicle, 27 April 1950, Page 5

U.S. RADICAL ANTI-TANK WEAPON

WASHINGTON, April 25 ißscd. 8.5 Jim). —The United States was developing a new anti-tank weapon of radical design that might change the whole Concept of tank warfare. General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, said in a broadcast tonight. "The problem which plagued us during the war and which has been Intensified since is how to defeat potential aggressor armies that have a vast Bumber of tank's." Genera! Collins ,<Said. “We now feel that we are well *1 on the way towards producing a Weapon of a radical des’gn that can fill this need.” ’ General Collins said the United States Army was mainly equipped with World War II weapons—most of them about seven years old, hut some ■nit-s, such as the airborne divisions, Were ready with modern weapons to fight anywhere in the world. He said some of the most noteworthy developments in post-war Weapons were in the field of defence against air attacks. Progress in this field included new relatively inexpensive anti-aircraft rockets which, the Army believed, would be able to destroy planes at an altitude above fiO.OOOft. "I can summarise for the entire Army by saying, with due consideration for strength, restrictions and certain deficiencies in equipment, that Our units, if attacked, would give an ' excellent account of themselves,” General Collins concluded.