Coast Defense Units Now Use Radio
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Coast Defense Units Now Use Radio
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Coast Defense Units Now Use Radio
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THE Army and the Navy are mak-
ing good use of the radio ex-
perience gained through the war,
experimenting and perfecting appara-
tus continually. Only recently the
Army was successful in an especially
noteworthy feat.
Flying nearly a mile high over Fort
Hancock (Sandy Hook), N. J., re-
cently, army observers in two air-
planes directed the fire of twelve-inch
guns on a target nearly fifteen miles
out at sea. A third airplane at an
altitude of nearly three miles observed
the firing of the shots for visibility.
The firing lasted an hour and fifty
minutes. A total number of thirteen
shots was fired.
Mostly the shots enclosed, or
“bracketed,” the target within a
radius of 450 feet, which means that if
the target had been a big battleship it
would have been hit. The first shot
struck two miles from the target, but
after that the target was in an exceed-
ingly precarious position, since the
information radioed to the gunners by
the men in the airplanes was so much
to the point.
The experiment is considered as of
much moment to the future coast
defense of the United States, and for
the protection of New York Harbor.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-09
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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122
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 3, 1919