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Unknown Fuze
- Thread starter siegfreid
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Siegfreid,
The castellated ring strongly suggests that there is a 'Mechanism, time' contained therein. The length of the body below the threads suggests housing for a battery. From the photo' it would appear there is a a plastic section below the nose tip which suggests proximity fuze. Why one would have proximity and time fuze I've no idea.
TimG
The castellated ring strongly suggests that there is a 'Mechanism, time' contained therein. The length of the body below the threads suggests housing for a battery. From the photo' it would appear there is a a plastic section below the nose tip which suggests proximity fuze. Why one would have proximity and time fuze I've no idea.
TimG
Tim/Mike,
The Navy had version of their N97 which was both a TVT (Timed Variable Time) and a CVT (Controlled Variable Time). In TVT role it could 'VT' up to 21 seconds which was set by the clock (self destruct (SD) at that point). In CVT role it 'VT'd for just 3 seconds (start time depended on the fuze) before SD. The handrace was used to select TVT plus flight time or CVT. As I remember (I worked on these a hundred years ago - OK 1960 something) the N97 was pretty multi-role since its sensitivity could be changed by applying a voltage to it and by applying an opposite polarity voltage it would switch off VT and leave it as a DA fuze only.
Of course yours might not be one of these ;-)