An effective and reliable means of combating or
frustrating a dirigible attack, other than by gun-fire or resort
to the drastic remedy of ramming the enemy, has yet to be
devised.
CHAPTER XVII
WIRELESS IN AVIATION
In a previous chapter the various methods of signalling between
the ground and the airman aloft have been described. Seeing that
wireless telegraphy has made such enormous strides and has
advanced to such a degree of perfection, one naturally would
conclude that it constitutes an ideal system of communication
under such conditions in military operations.
But this is not the case. Wireless is utilised only to a very
limited extent. This is due to two causes. The one is of a
technical, the other of a strategical character.
The uninitiated, bearing in mind the comparative ease with which
wireless installations may be established at a relatively small
expense, would not unreasonably think that no serious
difficulties of a technical character could arise: at least none
which would defy solution. But these difficulties exist in two
or three different fields, each of which is peculiarly complex
and demands individual treatment.
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