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Friday, 14 April 2017

USS testing results of air attacks on a target representing a battleship according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 26 July 1910

An item referred to the report of American navy and army officers dealing with the bombing experiments executed with a Curtiss plane. A target was to represent a battleship. The final conclusion was that there were no guns available for sufficient defence against improved air torpedoes.