ANTI-AIRCRAFT FUSE
Invented By British
(Received September 24, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 23.
The self-timing anti-aircraft shell-fuse was a British invention, the Ministry of Supply announces. Tlie Ministry’s air defence research station carried out the earliest experiments, after which information was sent on to America, where tlie greater industrial capacity produced all the radio proximity fuses which were used in action. The development made possible the sudden and startling increase in the destruction of flying bombs a few weeks after the beginning of (lie bombardment iu 1944. The fuse transmits a radio frequency whose echo increases in strength as it approaches the target till it is sulhciently powerful to cause a detonation. 1 lie equipment uses half-inch valves amt minute batteries which are.able to withstand'the gun muzzle velocities.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 306, 25 September 1945, Page 7
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128ANTI-AIRCRAFT FUSE Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 306, 25 September 1945, Page 7
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