Contact fuze
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contact-fuze-222-1083291
title:
Contact fuze
text:
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 a soft surface, or an off-axis grazing impact. The pure contact fuze is often unreliable in such cases and so a more sensitive graze fuze or inertia fuze is used instead. The two types are often combined in the same mechanism.
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description:
Device that detonates bomb on contact with hard surface
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_fuze
date created:
2010-05-03T19:09:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T20:43:12Z
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