Demonstration of US Army's new anti-aircraft gun, Norfolk

Aug. 08, 1954 - Demonstration Of The US Army's New 75 mm Skysweeper Anti-Aircraft Gun: The United States Army's new 75 mm Skyweeper, a large caliber automatic anti aircraft artillery weapon, was fired at radio controlled and towed targets before high ranking British Army officials and members of the press at Weybourne, Norfolk, today. The new gun which can find and track approaching aircraft as far away as 15 miles, is capable of firing on and defeating air targets as far away as four miles. The weapon, equipped with radar, computer and gun all on one carriage, operate day or night regardless of weather conditions, even when aircraft are invisible in a blanketing fog. Photo shows One of the radio-controlled target planes being prepared on the launching-ramp for its rocket assisted takeoff. These target planes have a 75 hp engine and travel at a speed of 225 mph for a duration of just over an hour and can be made to emulate aircraft movements, such as diving, banking etc

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