The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-06
WIRELESS WAR ENOW BEYOND
 EXPERIMENTS
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a wireless war;"
 In some such manner will the dough boys derisive gibe at those who saw service behind the lines have to be amended in the next war if time bears out the predictions of naval and mill tary experts as to the part radio is to play in the conflicts of the future.
 Destroyers without soul on board maneuvering at full speed in battle formation; battle cruisers zig,zagging with lightnirg-like swiftaess to escape | the bomb of q pilotless airplanc or the unseen torpedo Of a crew.less subma. | rine; whole fleets of dreadnoughts chanical hands, belch forth tons of | steel at other squadrons of electrical. ! ly-manipulated war-Craft-this is the naval warfare of the future, as it is ! glimpsed by the eye of scitnific possi. | bility, from the not inconsiderable l height of present.day achievement.
 On land the adio-conArolled air plane or dirigible may operate even more easily than at sea. Carrying it's dea ath-dealing load of bombs or poison gas, which the pressing of a button a hundred miles away may release, 1t could soar over enemy cities, compel. ling surrender of their inhabitants by the mere threat of the destruction get within striking distance of each other huge tanks, laden with tons of high explosives might be guided by radio into the enemy lines and there exploded by closing a contact switch in the control station far in the rear. A few years ago such prophecies would have been hailed as absurd and ridiculous. Today they are accepted as possibilities, even probabilities of the future and the not very distant future at that.
 Navy department experts have been working on problems of radio control for many months and have made not able progress, as was evidenced by the performance of the radio-con. trolled battleship Iowa during the re. cent bombing tests off the Atlantic coast Army engineers, too. are giv- ing intense study to the subject.
 What army experts think of the flu. ture of radio in warfare is shown in an official statement concerning the progress of experiments now being conducted at McCook Field. Dayton, Ohio.
 The possibilities of radio control and its application to wartime prob. lems are almost without number" " says the statement Radio control can be applied to any mechanical ap- paratus that moves. whether it be in the air, on the ground, on the surface of the water, or beneath the water. Huge land tanks may be constructed and filled with INT and driven to any desired point along the enemy's lines, where the explosive can be fired by means of radio, or it can be applied in q similar manner to a boat. sub. marine. torpedo. or even an airplane. and the explosive can be fired when and where desired"
 Recent visitors at McCook Field have been astonished at the gyrations of a brightly painted, three-wheeled vehicle which has been dashing to and fro between the buildings and among the airplanes on the field. under no visible means of control It is often seen to approach q group of persons. its horn footing wildly, and then. when apparently about to strike them, to stop short, back. turn sharply to right or left and then speed off in the opposite direction.
 The movements of the car are con trolled entirely by radio impulses sent out rom the station at the lower end of the flying field. The fact that no aerial or antenna system is visible adds to the mystification of the unin- tiated.
 The car is of cigar-shaped construc- tion, about eight feet long, and runs on three pneumatic-tired wheels. It's speed ranges from four to ten miles an hour, and the controls are so nice ly adjusted as to make steering along "a narrow roadway an easy matter.
 An examination of the interior of the car shows an amazing collection of batteries, switches, wires. vacuum tubes, potentiometers. relays and magnets, all of which are necessary