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CONTENTS.
xvii.
  • Attack by Aeroplane on Aeroplane.
  • The Fighting Machine as a Separate Type.
  • The Question of Armament—Treaty Restrictions.
  • Importance of Rapid Fire—Machine Guns Multiply Mounted.
  • Rapidity of Fire and its Measure.
  • Armour in its Relation to Armament.
  • Importance of Upper "Gage"—Attack from Above
  • Armour and Shield Protection.
  • Gun-fire Ballistics—The Energy Account.
  • Expanding and Explosive Bullets.
  • Theory of the Expanding Bullet.
  • The Light-weight Shell.
  • Miscellaneous Weapons and Means of Offence.
  • The Bomb and the Hand Grenade.
  • Bomb Dropping, Difficulties of Aiming.
  • Rockets, Air-borne Torpedoes, etc.
  • Supremacy of the Gun against Aircraft.
  • Aircraft in the Service of the Navy—Naval Reconnaissance.
  • Mother-ship or Floating Base.
  • Armament of the Naval Aeroplane—the Employment of Bombs.
  • Torpedo Attack by Air.
  • Aeroplane and Submarine—Attack by Bomb.
  • Aircraft in the Service of the Navy —Continued.
  • The Naval Air-scout.
  • The Flying-Boat Type—The Double Float Type.
  • The Ocean-going Floating Base or Pontoon-ship.
  • The Command of the Air.
  • Air Power as Affecting Combined Tactics.
  • Defeat in the Air an Irreparable Disaster.
  • Employment of Aircraft in Large Bodies—Air Tactics.