Details of a new incendiary bomb prepar were released by the technical adviser of the Astbury anti—aircraft defences today.
'The bomb is so light that a normal-sized bombing plane can' carry 2,000 of them. It is known as the "Kilo Electron." A large bomber can drop ten or twenty of these missiles at a time. "The bombs spread out as they fall, and it has been calculated that a large bomber flying in a straight line. at 200 miles per hour at a height of 5,000 or more, releasing twenty bombs per second over an area containing fifteen per cent. of build~ ings, might be able to slart a fire every sixty or seventy yards," the technician stated. "The bomb gives: off a flame of molten magnesium which would burn from ten (o twenty minutes at a temperature of 1,300 deg. C. (2736 deg. F.)—Havas.
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