London, July 20.
Pursuit planes and fighters of the RAF. are now being armed with motor cannon, Britain's newest, most jealously guarded war-plane secret.
Little is known of them, except the careful statement made by the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, in the House of Commons that warplane cannon were being build in this country "on a considerable scale."
The cannon now being mass-produced in England at a special new factory are a development of Hispano-Suiza motor cannon, it is understood. The cannon, when originally produced in ce, was stated to be a gun built into the aeroplane engine firing shells weighing nearly a pound as quickly as a machine-gun fires bullets—about 900 a minute, Armour-piercing, explosive, in-loaded ins the cannon magazine.
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