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Fuze I.D Please.....

Darren

Darren

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This is a very nice, interesting fuze that i am looking for an i.d on. With some sort of adapter ring attached this fuze is a monster!

Looks to be some sort of modern copy of the German ZtZ.S/30 fuze??

Plenty of stampings and stenciled letters/numbers so hopefully someone will beable to offer me some info here.


Top part of nose cone is stenciled in black - RAD Br 64

Bottom part of the alluminium fuze on one side is stamped - T.2 - 62 D.M.52 NE 238a

Bottom part of the alluminium fuze on other side is stamped - 556-3 LIP 9 59 ZtZ.S/30 Fg1 cia


Green adapter ring? is stenciled in yellow - 561.16. - Br.3.64

Green adapter ring? is stamped - 561 - 16 Br 3 64


Brass Booster/gain section at the bottom stenciled in black - 7 BTT 63


Can anyone offer me any info on what any of the markings translate to?
Can anyone offer me any info on what shell this fuze was/is fitted to?

Thanks,
Darren
 

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Actually this is a WWII Zt. Z. S/30 which was reworked by the French after 1945 and used on their 100x700R naval AA guns. Ironically they sold these guns to the German Bundeswehr again - with these fuzes on. Hence the designation DM52.
As good anti fascists as Germans are supposed to be today some do gooder complained about fuzes with swastikas on and that there is no way for the Bundeswehr to keep on like this. Further deliveries from France then had a milled out section on the fuze surfaces where the original German markings had been before.
 
EOD said:
Actually this is a WWII Zt. Z. S/30 which was reworked by the French after 1945 and used on their 100x700R naval AA guns. Ironically they sold these guns to the German Bundeswehr again - with these fuzes on. Hence the designation DM52.
As good anti fascists as Germans are supposed to be today some do gooder complained about fuzes with swastikas on and that there is no way for the Bundeswehr to keep on like this. Further deliveries from France then had a milled out section on the fuze surfaces where the original German markings had been before.
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Thanks for the information EOD, now that is interesting.

After another look i can now see the area just after the Fg1 has been worked on and the German stamp/markings have indeed been removed.

Thanks,
Darren
 
EOD said:
Actually this is a WWII Zt. Z. S/30 which was reworked by the French after 1945 and used on their 100x700R naval AA guns. Ironically they sold these guns to the German Bundeswehr again - with these fuzes on. Hence the designation DM52.
As good anti fascists as Germans are supposed to be today some do gooder complained about fuzes with swastikas on and that there is no way for the Bundeswehr to keep on like this. Further deliveries from France then had a milled out section on the fuze surfaces where the original German markings had been before.
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Do you have a picture of one of these rounds with fuze?
 
Darren, I could not find one but someone here might have one. The cases were steel and light brown/tan colored. I will look up some more docs, maybe I'll find an image somewhere.
 
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