Fuzes artillery

Anon, Packaging, Packing and Marking For Shipment of Artillery Type and Rocket Fuzes General Specification For , MIL-P-60412A (PA) (1975) 31) Anon, "Packing,... 

While waiting for private industry to convert its. assembly lines for ammunition production, Picatinny Filled the gap. Between July 1939 and September 1952, more than 7,500,000 bomb fuzes, almost 20,000J000 boosters, 44,000,000 artillery primers, 39,000,000 artillery fuzes, and countless millions of other items were turned out... 

Initiating components used in fuzes of artillery projectiles are described in Sections 4 5, while those used for bombs are described in Section 6... 

Typical HE-T (High-Explosive-Tracer) Artillery Projectile, such as used in 120-mm HE-T, Comp B, M356 (T15E3) Separated Ammunition is shown in Fig 1-2. It consists of a forged steel body loaded with 7.84 lb of Composition B and fitted with a PD fuze. 

Typical HEAT-T (High-Explosive, Antitank-Tracer) Artillery Projectile, shown in Fig 1-6, consists of a forged-steel body contg a shaped HE charge (such as cast Comp B) Covered at its cavity with a Cu cone. An ogive is attached to the forward end of the body and a base fuze with a tracer is inserted into a threaded opening at the base of the body... 

Typical Burster-Type Smoke Artillery Projectile, such as 120-mm WP-T (White Phosphorus-Tracer) Smoke Projectile M557 (TI6E4) (Burster Type), shown in Fig 1-13, belongs to the type of chemical projectiles. It consists of a hollow, forged steel body filled with 7.2 lb of WP and fitted with PD fuze. There is a boss on the base of proj contg a tracer. 

Definition of Terms Used for Initiating Components of Artillery Projectiles a) Definition of Fuze Detonator... 

If a HE train is used in artillery fuzes it might be called artillery ammunition train... 

Fuze, Nose. A fuze located in the forward end of a bomb, and some missiles, but this term is not applied to fuzes located in the forward end of an artillery projectile (See Fuze, Point)... 

The first term, "bore safety", is applicable only to fuzes used in cannon and mortar projectiles or in rockets. It refers to the provision of means to prevent functioning while in the bore of the artillery weapon or in the rocket-launching tube. Such fuzes are said to be bore safe. A fuze which is not provided with a safety device to prevent the explosion of the main charge of an ammuni-... 

Fuze, Short Delay. A type of delay fuze used both in bombs and artillery projectiles, in which the fuze action is delayed for a short period of time, less than 1 second (Ref 40a, p 80). Ohart (Ref 17, p 126) gives for short delay fuze the time of delay betw 0.05 and 0.25 sec... 

Fuze, Standard Contour. A point fuze having a standard shape, size and shape agreed upon for use with a certain group of artillery projectiles. Such fuzes may be interchanged without affecting the flight of the projectile... 

As was already mentioned, igniting fuzes are not used in artillery projectiles loaded with HE s only fuzes activated by detonation are used... 

Fuzes, Proximity, M513 (T226) and M513B1 (T226B1). Early models of the adjustable, delayed-arming type for use in 75-mm to 105-mm field artillery projectiles, including terrestrial targets (pp 5-117 5-118)... 

These fuzes are similar to those used in artillery projectiles and the following types are described in TM 9-1300-204 (1959) (Ref 40) ... 

German. A detailed description of artillery fuzes (Gessosszunder) is given in TM 9-1985-3 (1953), pp 547-608 (listed here as Ref 27b) and this report and some other sources were used in compiling PATR 2510 (1958) (listed here as Ref 35), where... 

Japanese Artillery Fuzes. The following types are listed in Ref 28b, pp 391-426 St 518-43 ... 

Briefly, Russian artillery fuzes may be subdivided into ... 

A table listing some Russian artillery fuzes used during WWII is given in Ref 31, pp Rus 7 Rus 8... 

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