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Show j flakes ilu:-s More Deadly j A new fire control instrument for ! ;he operarion of anti-aircraft guns has been perfected by the Cnited stares Navy department. The device, which transmits electrically all tiring data j to the anti-aircraft batteries, is said I to direct shell tire with such nccu-I nccu-I racy that anti-aircraft gunners can nti-i nti-i tieipate the path of a (lying plane, and by merely setting the fuse of an explosive ex-plosive snell can tire so the shell and plane will meet at a previously cal-i cal-i ciliated point. The instrument Is de t scribed as having 40,000 working i parts. i |