Falcons May Be Trained to Destroy Submarines

Titolo: Falcons May Be Trained to Destroy Submarines
Oggetto: en Imagined technology & prototypes; en Anti-submarines; en Animals
Article Title and/or Image Caption: Falcons May Be Trained to Destroy Submarines
extracted text: A unique method proposed for the destruction of submarines is that of a man who plans to train falcons to hunt for periscopes in identically the same manner that the birds have heretofore been used for hunting game. Falcons are trained to sight game by being fed from a cavity, usually in the head of a stuffed deer.
In this way they are trained to fly at such game. For hunting U-boats, training would be accomplished by means of food placed in the ends of dummy periscopes so that the birds would fly at such an object whenever sighted. Tiny bombs of the highest explosive arranged to explode upon contact with water would be attached to the birds to effect the destruction of any periscope upon which they should alight. On shipboard the falcons would be starved and hooded until a submarine is sighted.
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: World War I
Data di rilascio: 1918-02
pagine: 257
Diritti: Public Domain
Sorgente: babel.hathitrust
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