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 75mm Skysweeper, 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, operates day or night regardless of weather conditions, even when aircraft are invisible in a blanketing fog. Photo shows Captain Myron Fox, of Waterloo, New York, handles a miniature joy stick, which with radio transmitter behind him, he controls the pilotless aircraft targets

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75mm Anti-aircraft Approaching Armys Automatic Blanketing Caliber Capable Controlled Controls Defeating Equipped Fired Handles Invisible Myron Operates Pilotless Radar Ranking Regardless Skysweeper Targets Towed Transmitter Waterloo

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