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Aug. 08, 1954 - Demonstration of the U, S, Army's New 75 mn skysweeper anti-aircraft gun: The United States Army's new Skysweeper, a large caliber automatic anti-aircraft artillery weapon, was fired at radio controlled and towed targets before High ranking British Army officials and members of the press, at Weybourne, Norfolk, today. The new gun which can find and track approaching aircraft as far away as 15 miles, is capable of firing on and defeating air targets as far away as four miles. The weapon, equipped with radar, computer, and gun all on one carriage, operates day or night regardless of weather conditions, even when aircraft are invisible in a blanketing fog

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Aug. 08, 1954 - Demonstration of the U, S, Army's New 75 mn skysweeper anti-aircraft gun: The United States Army's new Skysweeper, a large caliber automatic anti-aircraft artillery weapon, was fired at radio controlled and towed targets before High ranking British Army officials and members of the press, at Weybourne, Norfolk, today. The new gun which can find and track approaching aircraft as far away as 15 miles, is capable of firing on and defeating air targets as far away as four miles. The weapon, equipped with radar, computer, and gun all on one carriage, operates day or night regardless of weather conditions, even when aircraft are invisible in a blanketing fog. Photo shows the new Skysweeper anti-aircraft gun in action today firing at one of the radio controlled target planes, during the demonstration at Weybourne, Norfolk

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