Ammunition or Aircraft Bombs Fuzes for Demolition Items

Fuzes for Use in Items Other Than Artillery Ammunition or Aircraft Bombs a) Fuzes for Demolition Items 

A brief description of demolition explosives, etc is given in Ref 48, pp D56 to D62. Bangalore Torpedo and Bangalore Snake are described in Ref 44, pp B16 B17. A more complete description of demolition items is given in FM5-25 (1967) listed here as Ref 53 

Following is an example of fuzes used in demolition items  

Bullet Impace Fuze, MI AI for Demolition Snake M3 consists of a body (which contains a detonator and two shaped-charge boosters), a target plate of 3/8-inch thick steel and a spring mounted on three studs. The target plate bears on a firing pin which is restrained by a shear pin and safety fork. The fork must be removed before the fuze can be operated. 

In placing the fuze, care must be exercized to have the semicircular end up, since the effect of the two shaped boosters is directly downward, perpendicular to the two flat edges. The fuze is described in Ref 30c, pp 126, 128, 131 132 and in Ref 46, pp 99, 100, 105 106, but not listed in Ref 53 

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