Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
LATEST WEAPONS
OF WAR DISPLAYED
10000 Witness Exhibition
by Army Ordnance Asso-
citation at Aberdeen.

Uncle Sam barred the mighty muscles
Of his good right arm yesterday and did
some shadow boxing on the broad acres
of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds just
to show the public that this year he's
faster on his feet than ever before and
that he still packs q powerful punch.
The exhibition was for the benefit of
members Of the Army Ordnance Asso-
citation and their guests, who gathered
10000 strong, to get their annual
glimpse of the mightiest fighter Of all
in his private training camp.
With only the flashing of sabers of
the Cavalry out Of the picture and these
replaced by the bayonets of motorized
Infantry, the Army gave picture OF
what the next war, If any, likely viii
resemble -airplanes roaring and spiting
deadly streams Of metal from overhead,
bombing and straflng an imaginary
enemy in trenches, mighty tanks and
little whippetS running rough-shod over
machine-gun emplacements, Artillery
covering the advance of troops and,
finally, troops advancing TO the clean
up work and occupancy Of hard-won
positions not in the traditional manner,
afoot or crawling on their bellies. but
riding, quickly and behind walls of
armor plate. in the new transport cars
developed by the Army.
Army Shows Whole Hand.
The Army showed also its mighty
coast defense guns, booming out their
messengers of death and destruction,
and the recently developed and still ex-
perimental answers to the newest mem
ace of war, the anti-aircraft defenses.
All day and part of the night the
show went on, until the Army had
shown its whole hand In the game Of
war.
The early morning show consisted Of
exhibition and firing Of various units of
armament, including 80 and so caliber
machine guns and 3-pounders mounted
on tanks, q demonstration Of ammuni-
ton, with black, Srmokeless and fiasllless
power being used In a 75-mm. gun, a
picture Of the trajectory Of q shell from
3 15-mm. gun, with series Of rounds
with time fuses set at 2-second intervals,
firing Of 75-mm. guns on various mounts
and the firing Of los and 155 nm.
howitzers.
There followed the main event of the
morning. the demonstration of the
equipment Of mechanical force in
war.
The war show carried troops through
an engagement and into new position.
First, airplanes secuted the position of
the imaginary enemy and made their
report to the attack commander. Then
fast arnored cars went out into the
"no-man's land" and secured greater
details on the hostile forces positions
and reported. Long-range artillery then
let 60 on the enemy, . 4.7-inch gun
and an 8-inch howitzer doing the work.
Four-gun and two-gun multiple ma
chine-g mounted on fast trucks then
protected the deployment. Of ground
forces from hostile aircraft attack, and
the light artillery and chemical mortars
occupied advanced positions, supported
by the heavier weapons. Then tanks,
small and large, took the field of battle
crushing everything In their way and
shattering machine-gun nests, support
ed by an intensified attack by the IS
nm. mobile artillery. CroSs-country
trucks, fitted for carrying the advance
infantry units armed with automatic
rifles and machine guns followed the
tanks into the close fighting, followed by
the divisional infantry, ready to take
up the new position and free the at
lacking forces for a new assault on the
enemy line.
Air Corps Demonstration.
stration of all the various mechanical
equipment developed by the Army in
the past few years.
The Air Corps put on a demonstra-
ton in the afternoon, with lombard
ment and attack planes from Langley
Field and observation planes from
Mitchell Field, N. Y, doing the work.
The first exhibition was by hedge
hopping and attack planes, which reared
down over the firing range with their
machine guns splitting a deadly hail at
targets, followed by other attack planes
which dropped 25-pound augmentation
bombs on the enemy position.
There followed a demonstration Of
attack planes In formation flying, an
exhibition of acrobatic flying by pur-
dog fight" between two Boiling Field
planes.
Then big bombers got into action,
dropping 800 pound high explosive
bombs on the enemy position.
The scene was changed after the
aircraft demonstration to the anti-air-
craft and coast defense range, where
one round was fired from the biggest
gun in use by the Army. 16-inch
coast-defense gun, and from 14-inch
gun on railway mount. The big guns
doomed forth their mighty projectiles
capable Of travelling over Is miles.
The anti-aircraft gun demonstration
followed, with firing Of los nm. guns,
the biggest anti-aircraft weapons; 9
battery of four 3-inch anti-aircraft
r,ins and airing of so caliber guns on
4-gun and 2-gun mobile mounts and
free guns in batteries Of four.
The anti-aircraft demonstration was
repeated last night, with giant $780,
600, OOO-candlepower searchlights and
sound .detectors picked out the targets