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Friday, January 13, 2023
Proximity Fuze
Proximity Fuze – The 3rd Most Crucial Development of WW2
Curious Droid
I've been aware of the proximity fuze for a while now, but I just checked and didn't find anything about it in this here blog, so here we are. Curious that he doesn't mention the Norden bombsight, but then it didn't depend on new technology, it was just mechanical engineering developed to a fine pitch. However, the cost to develope the Norden bombsight was of the same magnitude as the atomic bomb. Sounds like the WW2 version of the SLS.
On that topic, I enjoyed the book:
ReplyDelete12 Seconds of Silence
How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
by Jamie Holmes
Amazing factoid: The first proximity-fuse-equipped shells had vacuum tubes (!) in them. Fired from huge anti-aircraft cannons.