Originally Posted by
India Four Two
YS,
Can you tell me how the fuze worked?
No idea I’m afraid, in fact I’m not even sure the chaps doing the proof test knew. I was only looking at what the round did and how it was ensured that it was doing it. How it did it was another field altogether. Proof involved a whole series of tests including:
a. Chamber pressure
b. Hang time
c. Case integrity
d. Fuse functions
e. Primer initiation
and possibly a couple more that I’ve forgotten.
This is was the 30mm Aden round and cannon combination. I also saw 20mm Hispano (although this was almost out of service), 20mm Oerlikon and 40mm Bofors. There was an interesting 7.62 tracer round test as well.
YS