War Ideas
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War Ideas
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TRUCK TRAILERS with telescoping axles are being used for hauling
airplanes from factories to seaports and other shipping points.
Axles can be extended to a width of 12 feet, and planes’ landing
wheels are run up bridgelike ramps to rest in special troughs.
For the return trip, the axles are telescoped to eight-foot width
to give road clearance for other vehicles. Another proposed use
for trailers, illustrated below, is in rushing troops into action.
Steplike platforms accommodate 206 fully equipped men, who
can be unloaded and dispersed in 10 seconds. Such units are
especially suited to moving troops in desert warfare.
FLOATING FORTRESSES, similar to the artist's
conception shown above, and designed to
combat Axis aircraft, have been reported
put into use by the Russian naval forces.
Strongly equipped with antiaircraft guns
and powerful searchlights, the floating
behemoth is made of chrome steel, and has
armor 11 inches thick. Because it lacks any
means of self-propulsion, however, it is es-
sentially a defensive weapon, and can be
pat to effective use only offshore from im-
portant military and industrial centers
where it can intercept enemy planes intent
on bombing or reconnaissance.
A WIRED ROCKET is the British Merchant Navy's latest surprise
weapon to be used in fighting the Luftwaffe. Fired from a gun,
the rocket carries into the air a parachute from which dangle
long wires. By careful aiming and timing, gunners can drop a
screen of these wires in front of enemy planes, which will cause
them to swerve from bombing position or become entangled
and destroyed. The parachutes remain in the air an ap-
preciable length of time, and after they drop into the sea
they can be salvaged and used again.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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62-63
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 142, n. 3, 1943
