Word: armament
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Beyond mines and torpedoes, wrote Baldwin in the New York Times this week, naval shells are not all they might be. And if U.S. ships have the best anti-aircraft armament in the world, not all the credit goes to the "Potomac Gun Club," as Baldwin calls "the little clique of high officers who had been prominent in the Bureau of Ordnance...
...What are the alternatives? There are but two. . . . Either widespread, sporadic and interminable chaos and anarchy, or a precarious and temporary system of balance of power, with resultant armament expansion, and a policy of rank imperialism on the part of all the major powers, including the United States, which will pave the way ... for new and still more devastating wars...
...Zeros (about 38-39 ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long); was powered by an in-line V-type engine (the various Zeros have radial, air-cooled engines); had armor; carried one 7.7-mm. machine gun in each wing and two 12.7-mm. machine guns in the nose. In armament, the Japs had evidently borrowed some ideas from the Americans' destructive .50-caliber machine guns, to which the 12.7 roughly corresponds. New Guinea flyers said that the newcomer could outdive the P-38 but could not outclimb...
...There is no one "Zero"; there are several Army and Navy types varying slightly in armament, wing contours, performance...
...boats' armament included new torpedoes, evidently derived from magnetic and sonic mines with which the British long since learned how to cope. Attracted toward a ship's stern by the metal mass, the torpedoes exploded automatically when they came within the radius of the propeller vibrations. Once the propellers were crippled or destroyed, the ship was then an easy mark for conventional torpedoes...