I ran across this weird little item perusing old issues of Popular Mechanics on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=1tkDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA44&pg=RA1-PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false

Obviously it didn’t pan out , but I wonder if the basic design is valid? (We’ll ignore the ‘trailing cables to catch bombers', which would make for a briefly interesting Nantucket Sleigh Ride for the unfortunate defenders…)

There are other interesting tidbits scattered through these issues, such as the article describing the “Battleships of the Future” with confidence…about two months after the keel was laid for the last battleship the US ever made.

https://books.google.com/books?id=vdkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA366&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

Not a few of their images of ‘stuff from the Futuuuurrrreee!’ looks exactly like cover illos for Astounding Science Fiction of the same era...

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