RADIO PROXIMITY FUSE
GREAT WAR INVENTION
SECOND ONLY TO THE ATOMIC BOMB Recd. 8.20 p.m. Washington, Sept. 20. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Hensoil, told interviewers that the radio proximity fuse was second only to the atomic bomb among the war’s greatest scientific developments. The fuse, which explodes a projectile as soon as it. comes sufficiently close to the target 1o inflict damage, is an extremely rugged five-valve radio sending and receiving station. Fitting into the projectile’s nose, the radio sends out electro-magnetic waves at the speed of light. Those are reflected by any target which gives radio reflection, such as meta! objects, water and earth.
Mr. Hensell said the Navy spent 800,000,000 dollars develoning and producing the fuse. Tf a fuse-equipped projectile passes within 70 feet of an aeroplane the reflected imnulses act on the fuse circuit, seting off the main explosive charge. The British used it with striking effect against the "buzzbor:>” in the summer of 1944.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 225, 22 September 1945, Page 5
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