Germany’s New Explosive Bomb

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 40.

Germany’s New Explosive Bomb

German military authorities are experimenting with a new bomb, round in shape, and of great diameter, loaded with a very powerful explosive mixture, being greater than the bore of the gun which throws it. It is provided with a long stick-like tail which is loaded into the barrel of the gun; its lower end of a piston-like form, resting on the gun charge. On being fired this tail serves to keep the bomb in its proper direction for some distance, when it falls away, leaving the bomb to pursue its course.