Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1940, Page 8

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It is, therefore, a decided ad- vantage from our point of view that the latest models of American planes should be tested under active service conditions, and improved models developed as a result. It is, of course, to be supposed, or at least to be hoped, that as a part of any arrangements for sup- plying these planes to the allies, our Government is stipulating for re- liable information as to their per- formance. Since design is advanc- ing so rapidly, especially under the pressure of war conditions, there is little reason to suppose that we shall in this way part with anything that could be described as a valuable military secret. However, the news reports regarding our negotiations with the allies contain one disquiet- ing suggestion. It so happens that one of our newer pursuit models has a super- charger of confidential design which adds very greatly to its efficiency. It is stated that the allies are anx- ious to obtain not only the plane, but the supercharger, and that some War Department officials see no ob- Jection to their doing so. It is quite likely that no proper objection ex- ists. There are very few elements of design in this fleld which can be properly classified as true military secrets. U. 8. Has Military Secret. What is disquieting about this suggestion is that the United States does possess a military secret which should, under no circumstances | whatever, be made available to any foreign power; and that is our in- comparable bomb-sight. If the allies are pressing for im- proved designs of alrplanes, and even for such appurtenances as su- | per-chargers, it may confidently be assumed that they have not over- looked our bomb-sight, well known to be by far the best in the world. This is just ordinary common sense rea- soning, and no amount of official de- | nial should overcome the overwhelm. ing probabilities of the matter. , This bomb-sight is one of the few real military secrets of the world. Its possession is of great advaniage to the United States, because it 1s probable that in any war in which We may be engaged our bombard- ment aviation will be largely con- cerned with precision bombing against such targets as ships, smail islanld bases and the like. Carrying this reasoning a little further, any potential enemy of the United States must have to reckon, as a part of the risk he would undergo in any hostile enterprise against us, the certainty of an accurate and deadly bombing attack as to any ele- ments of his forces which might come within reach of our aviation—an at- tack which he could not, lacking our facilities for accurate bombing, return in kind or at least with the same proportionate effect. Have Crucial Targets. The other side of the picture is that we have certain crucial targets of our own which we do not desire to make the objectives of accurate high-altitude bombing by any pos- sible enemy. Notable among these targets are the locks and spillway dam of the Panama Canal. As pointed out in a previous arti- cle of this series, it is unlikely that the Panama Canal can be attacked by a large enemy air force. There- fore, anything which would in- crease the accuracy with which the comparatively few bombs of a small raiding force could be dropped is a decided disadvantage to us from the point of view of the canal’s se- curity, We should prefer such bomb- ing to be of the quality so far dis- played by both the British and the Germans in their North Sea opera- tions, rather than of the quality which our own air force is known to have attained. The Panama Canal is, when all is said and done, the keystone of our national strategy, and its security is of primary im- Prices start at THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940. portance to the security ot this country as & whole, It may, of course, be argued that neither Great Britain nor France is if we let the allies have our bomb- sight, a plane carrying it will sooner or later be shot down inside the German lines with the bomb-sight intact. Thereafter, not only the Germans, but in all probability their friends, the Russians and the Jap- anese, will possess a very consider- able military advantage, which is now confined to the possession of our own armed forces. Should Maintain Lead. It may be argued further that anyway some one will invent a bet- ter bomb-sight one of these days and that, meanwhile, we might as tain that lead as far as it is possible for us to do 0. 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