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Contact fuze
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A contact fuze, impact fuze, percussion fuze or direct-action fuze is the fuze that is placed in the nose of a bomb or shell so that it will detonate on contact with a hard surface.
No. 106 fuze
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In military munitions, a fuze is the part of the device that initiates its function. In some applications, such as torpedoes, a fuze may be identified by function as the exploder. The relative complex
Contact fuze
…A contact fuze, impact fuze, percussion fuze or direct-action (D.A.) fuze (UK) is the fuze that is placed in the nose of a bomb or shell so that it will detonate on contact with a hard surface. Many impacts are unpredictable: they may involve…
Wooden grenade fuse from the 17th Century, broken open vertically, with preserved delay charge.
Wooden grenade fuse from the 17th Century, broken open vertically, with preserved delay charge.
Mk 53 Proximity fuze for an artillery shell, c. 1945
Mk 53 Proximity fuze for an artillery shell, c. 1945
A modern multichannel radio remote detonator, in 2015.
A modern multichannel radio remote detonator, in 2015.
The contact fuze of a G7a torpedo, a hybrid design using both impact and swing-arm inertial triggering.
The contact fuze of a G7a torpedo, a hybrid design using both impact and swing-arm inertial triggering.