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  • A delay-action bomb is an aerial bomb designed to explode some time after impact, with the bomb's fuzes set to delay the explosion for times ranging from...
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    Pencil detonator (redirect from Pencil fuse)
    other end. Because standard safety fuse burns at around half a metre per minute, it is not practicable to provide delays of more than a few minutes in this...
    11 KB (1,479 words) - 17:35, 24 March 2024
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    dawn-to-dusk fighter sweeps over Japanese airfields, and the use of delayed action fuses on bombs dropped on runways to make repairs more difficult, The system...
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  • Fuze (redirect from Radar fuse)
    In military munitions, a fuze (sometimes fuse) is the part of the device that initiates its function. In some applications, such as torpedoes, a fuze may...
    26 KB (3,213 words) - 06:49, 11 May 2024
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    ashore during the night leaving only 100 barrels in Nancy at dawn. A delayed action fuse was left inside the brig, which exploded the powder just as a boatload...
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    could fire two types of shell, a heavy armour-piercing shell with a delayed action fuse weighing 384 kg, and a lighter 287 kg shell fitted with an impact...
    11 KB (1,204 words) - 09:01, 20 March 2024
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    have delay-action fuses to explode only after penetrating into a ship's vitals. If on its way through the ship there was nothing to activate the fuse, then...
    26 KB (3,489 words) - 18:00, 14 November 2023
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    reckoning. Each aircraft was armed with four 500 lb bombs with 11 second delayed action fuses since in such a low level attack the bombs had the potential to damage...
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    the altitude. The third fuse was a delayed action fuse, set to go off two hours after launch. The purpose of the third fuse was to avoid the risk of...
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    An artillery fuze or fuse is the type of munition fuze used with artillery munitions, typically projectiles fired by guns (field, anti-aircraft, coast...
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    March. After a bombardment of 750 tonnes of 1,000-pound bombs with delayed action fuses, starting at 8:30 and lasting three and a half hours, the New Zealanders...
    99 KB (13,055 words) - 23:09, 25 May 2024
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    nearby residents. Campbell found that the bomb was fitted with a delayed action fuse that was impossible to remove, so he transported it to a safe place...
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    during the First World War. He also invented artillery missiles with delayed-action fuses. These were used by the Italian and French armies in order to create...
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    high-explosive bombs, supplemented by incendiary bombs. All were armed with delayed action fuses varying in time from 45 seconds to six hours. Originally the operation...
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    during the earlier searches and was detonated by means of an acid delayed action fuse. The explosion killed 24 men, including all those sleeping on the...
    8 KB (848 words) - 17:49, 26 March 2023
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    German forces and destroyed the dock facilities. Eight hours later, delayed-action fuses set off the explosives in the Campbeltown, which wrecked the dock...
    66 KB (7,829 words) - 13:50, 27 April 2024
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    the town twice, then dropped eight bombs. Two bombs, one with a delayed-action fuse, fell on the Whitehall Theatre, a cinema on the London Road, where...
    39 KB (4,060 words) - 13:55, 9 May 2024
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    Delay-action bomb (bombs dropped by aircraft with a delay to increase damage/disruption) Improvised explosive device ("home-made" bombs with a delay to...
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    powder rowed ashore during the night, leaving only 100 barrels. A delayed action fuse was left inside the brig, exploding and killing the British boarding...
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  • contain a very damaged delayed-action fuse mechanism which could not be removed in situ. Though any electrical charge within the fuse was thought to have...
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