Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1916 — GUN CAN’T MISS AIM NOW [ARTICLE]

GUN CAN’T MISS AIM NOW

Italian Officer's Invention Determines Speed and Distance of Aircraft Automatically^ Rome. >— An Italian noncommissioned officer of engineers has invented a special telemeter for antiaircraft guns, whose aim is automatically rendered practically unerring. For obvious reasons a detailed description of this wonderful device, which has been adopted in all the allied armies, cannot be given. It consists of a mirror attached to the gun in which the object fired at, aeroplane or airship, is reflected in such a way that the gunner is enabled not only to determine automatically the distance between the gun and the target but to calculate the speed of the aircraft. , The mirror is graduated so that the distance and the speed of the target can be ascertained at a glance, and no time or ammunition is lost. Provided the enemy aircraft is within firing range, and the range of the antiaircraft gun has been considerably increased of late, the chances of its being missed when the special telemeter is used are reduced to less than 1 per cent. Three out of five seaplanes were brought down during a recent air raid at Ancona and about eight Austrian aeroplanes were hit and destroyed or captured a few weeks ago at the front.