Middleton, Edgar Charles, 1894- [from old catalog] · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 113
rop carries them several feetbeneath the surface of the earth before the detonatoracts, and, as the force of the explosion is for the mostpart downward and lateral, the projectile loses con-siderable advantage in the matter of death anddestruction. Other forms of projectiles are the grenade,… … FIG. 5. SECTIONAL VIEW OF AERIAL TORPEDO,SHOWING THE TIME-FUSE AND THE CONTACTDETONATOR To face page 85 BOMB RAIDS 85 target and sets the nose of the torpedo opposite thegraduated ring b (see Fig. 5), which corresponds tothis distance. The bomb is then released and themomentum of the first 50 feet…
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