Shooting down balloons
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:17 pm
Gentlemen,
During the first WW fighters on both sides would attemp to shoot down observation balloons, I think I read somewhere that before the advent of incendiary .303 bullets an experiment was made using modified 577-450 Martini-Henry bullets (presumably left over from the Zulu and Sudan wars) can anyone confirm this?
During the first WW fighters on both sides would attemp to shoot down observation balloons, I think I read somewhere that before the advent of incendiary .303 bullets an experiment was made using modified 577-450 Martini-Henry bullets (presumably left over from the Zulu and Sudan wars) can anyone confirm this?