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proximity fuze

noun

  1. a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of proximity fuze1

First recorded in 1940–45
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After the burnout of motors, the missile, which would then weigh about 800 pounds, would approach the targeted aircraft and a proximity fuze would detonate its warhead, causing its sleeves to shatter into diamond-shaped bits about the size of a quarter.

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But the SA-11 is a member of a class of weapon that carries a fragmenting warhead with a proximity fuze.

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It also has a longer range, a proximity fuze and a larger warhead.

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Great fleets on the sea or in the air will be canceled out by the guided bomb, the guided missile, the proximity fuze, he thinks.

His third was a graze; so close that its proximity fuze functioned, detonating the cyclonite-packed war-head.

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