Nightjar wrote:
On 18/05/2012 19:33, Tim Lamb wrote:
...
Speaking of thread development.... the firm I was apprenticed at had a
number of ancient Herbert capstan lathes which were said to have been
supplied for the manufacture of proximity fuses (used against V1's
Martin). How did such fuses actually work?

The VT fuse was a British idea for a radar proximity fuse that was
developed and manufactured by the Americans, under an agreed division of
work on radar. Initially they were only used against Kamikaze attacks in
the Pacific and for the anti V1 batteries, to ensure that none could
fall into enemy hands.

Its hard to see how a round fired over britain against anything else is
going to fall into enemy hands....

Colin Bignell


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