H1MIN: WWII VT Fuze

At first i didn’t get how the
Air burst Part Worked.

It’s the Land. 😅

Need to make something similar for grenade launcher ammunition

Wow you are incredibly stupid. You should have fucked off far away from that shell and left it to the professionaly trained EOD to do what they are trained to do

Fuse

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Interesting and succinct. Amazed that such technology existed back in WW2.

The proximity fuse used Mercury at the catalyst.
Gallons of mercury were spilled and all those proximity fuse building sites.
Along the Eastern side of the Sierras in California where many airfields where they made proximity fuses that area is all toxic with Mercury enjoy eating oranges guys

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A British invention, one of MANY technological wonders, that was handed to the Americans as part of the "Tizard Mission" in September 1940. We must never forget how the yanks sold us their garden hose and water at extortionate rates while Great Britain battled the firestorm of nazism alone.

The secret that won the war

The VT fuse was probably the most deadliest innovation of WWII

Back in WWII they don't have the brrrrrrrrt gun.

Jesus, humans are ingenious at finding ways to kill each other. Even at the time of WWII they already had this.

I have always on and off wondered about this because I thought timed fuses would be too impractical and outdated, but it was never on my mind long enough for me to look it up on the internet. Now I know thanks to this video that popped up on my recommend list because I have been watching a few tank videos. I love how this video is detailed and to the point too.

Its funny how people talk about German wonderweapons like the Me-262 but a VT fuze for their 88mm AAA would have been far more effective than the jets.

The Navy refused to allow these to be used on land. Till late in the war. They didn't want the enemy getting their hands on one..

So when Patton's army got them. He used them to great effect..

Yup im watching this videos as if the infos here will be useful to me

More animated details showing fuse components manufacturing and assembly if you please for some of us.

The beginning of ww3.

I never understood why their was black smoke and random explosion in the air. It makes sense know.

Genius

One of the unsung heroes of WWII.
The scientists who worked behind the scenes of WWII will never get enough credit.

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oh no...
why this lousy computer animation edit video at 028 to 042...
move move shake shake

"British"

me : OwO

I recall hearing that for awhile, the US Navy didnt want to deploy as many of the VT fused shells as they could actually manage because they didnt want to risk the Japanese getting a hold of one that didnt go off as intended and reverse engineering it, so they severely cut down the numbers actually deployed on ships.

Could be misremembering that and I dont recall the source.... Mightve been Drachinifel, but Im not 100% sure on that.

Initially it was only used in the navy and a secret , not widely used as the risk of it falling in to enemy hands was considered a risk . Towards germany it was introduced in 44 , germany thrmselves had them in almost ten years earlier as with most of things but they never were widespread deployed

Why the hell do we not have these in war thunder for the 40mm bofors XD

Hello there

Invented by Salford electrical instruments

And what?

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Спасибо товарищ! Завтра наделаю таких на своём станке на заводе!

I wonder if Chicago Piano 28mm is capable to have VT Fuze itself?

Super interesting! I would though, like to see a more detailed description for how this system worked.

it's amazing how they got a radar which was usually 100 or more times the size of the fuse into a small fuse like that...

I thought the germans made this first, or a version of it.

ASMR

The could put radars in artillery shells but not planes

It's expensive isn't it?

You’re to good

The innovations we come up with to kill each other are amazing, and I don't mean that sarcastically.

In late 1943, British sent a highly top secret scientific team to the US.....it was the “Tizard Mission”......they brought with them over 50 top secret scientific research and development projects and prototypes of weapons development as well as their latest and greatest scientific research data......the proximity fuse was only one of those, others included cryptographic breakthroughs such as breaking the Enigma, (one of the four German cryptographic machines), miniature 10cm aircraft borne radar to locate Uboats, developments in nuclear energy and a host of other top secret programs. The British intent for that mission was to reveal their advanced work, solicit American industrial assistance, influence the US military to partner with the British (and Canadian) scientists and to create a highly top secret “Target Intelligence Committee or TICOM” to pinpoint for intelligence exploitation, German advanced research and development....to capture and repatriate that German technology and to thus deny any of it to the Russians......post war, TICOM captured and secured over 1,600 different technologies including sarin and tabum gases, radioactive materiel including enriched uranium, jet engine advancements and Germany’s latest design of silent submarines.....!

Surely once you figure out how this works you could just use sound to prematurely set it off. A speaker attached to an amplifier with a potentiometer?

Who dislikes this you were promised a vid about the VT Fuze and you got it

Русский зритель - "нихуя непонял, но ОООЧЕНЬ интерестно

I’m supposed to be in classes rn but I’m learning more here than my teachers could ever do

We need this in war thunder at least with the high caliber anti aircraft guns

And they say the Germans were the ones inventing all the new technology!

So that's how, I always wondered how the aa team could time the explosion of the ammo close to the vehicle

The missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t. 😉