Repulse of Balloons by Coast Defence Batteries.
The German military authorities have been conducting a series of interesting experiments at the Heubude coast defence battery, Danzig Bay, with the object of determining the efficiency of modern ordnance in repelling captive and free balloons. The battery was equipped with 10-centimetre guns and mortars. Shrapnel was the ammunition used. Floating at a height that varied between 18,000 and 25,000 feet, balloons of 100 cubic metres capacity wete quite easily brought down. Only one balloon escaped inland.
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Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 376
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84Repulse of Balloons by Coast Defence Batteries. Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 376
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