The Barmouth and County Advertiser and District Weekly News

AIRCRAFT IN NAVAL WAR- FARE. The position of aircraft in connection with naval warfare requires to be studied almost as an independent problem, since many of the circumstances and conditions are different from those which obtain on land. Altogether apart from the con- structional features of the machine itself, which, in the case particularly of the aeroplane, are considerable, the questions that arise in the matter of attack and defence are so entirely modi- fied, at least so far as affected by the primary function of the arm, as to effect fundamentally the question of armament. Thus gun-fire, except as against hostile aircraft, ceases to have any ap-, preciable value no gun that can, or could, be mounted in any aeroplane or dirigible at present built, or contemplated, would be of the least service directed against the smallest unit of the enemy's navy, Again, when we consider the duties of recon- naissance, we are faced with totally altered conditions. In the case of the aeroplane, so long as we are confined to bases situa- ted on or near the coast, the area that can be reconnoitred is limi- ted to a distance of somer, 300 or 400 miles (possibly 500 rfhles) from the coast-line, this being at present an altogether outside estimate. Since we commonly have to regard our frontier as being the limit of the enemy's territorial waters, it is clear that j any such restriction is to be con- sidered inadmissible. In the case of the large airship, especially the rigid type, the range or radius of action is usually taken to be considerably greater, pos- sibly some 1000 miles as an ex- treme. If we admit thus (credit- v ing the machine with consider- ably more reliability than it has at present shown), we are still faced with the fact that such a machine cannot operate with safety in the presence of, or within the zone patrolled by, the enemy's aeroplanes. So far as the scouting aeroplane is concerned, the obvious solu- tion to the difficulty is the pro- vision of a floating aeroplane base, capable of accompanying, or act- ing in co-operation with, the fleet on the high seas, or of act- ing independently if required. Various schemes in this direction have been proposed; the possi- bilities seem to lie between a "mother-ship" adapted to take on board the necessary comple- ment of aeroplanes (or sea- planes," as they are frepuently termed when fitted with floats), and to fulfil the functions of storage, transport, and supply; and a more thorough-going scheme in which the floating base takes the form of a speciali- sed vessel with a clear deck of sufficient area to permit of machines being launched or alighting without entering the water at all. In the former scheme the normal condition would be that the machines are lowered into the water from which they require to rise, and on which, in due course, they alight. In the latter the machines are not presumed to enter the water at all, any im- mersion is by way of being an accident, for which eventuality, however, the machines would be adapted by being furnished "with floats in addition to the ordinary landing gear.

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