Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1912 — Plan Guns to Destroy Airships. [ARTICLE]

Plan Guns to Destroy Airships.

The gun to destroy the airship is perfecting almost as fart; as the airship itself. The ordnance bureau of the U. S. navy department has recently tested the latest gun to be derised. It shoots a one-pound bomb 18,000 feet into the air, at an angle of 85 degrees. Meanwhile, the ordnance bureau of the army has made a gun which has an effective range of seven miles, and which shoots a six-pound bomb. Either pm dfouid bring down an airship at any height It is likely to attain. ■ "