Britain entered World War I with a policy of using shrapnel shells for its field guns (13-pounder and 18-pounder), intended to burst above head-height for anti-personnel use. British heavy …

Several types of fuzes were in use in 1914-1918. They can be roughly categorized on the basis of the timing needed for triggering the shell explosive charge : 'Percussion fuzes' were triggered …

A fuze is a device that initiates an explosive function in a munition, most commonly causing it to detonate or release its contents, when its activation conditions are met.

As most of the fighting countries, the British armies went to war with various kinds of artillery ammunition fuzes, and developped many new models and numerous variants capitalizing the …

This is a near mint, strippable, unfired British WW1 No 100 nose impact fuze for high explosive and smoke projectiles. The fuze was one of the first streamlined fuzes for high explosive …

This is the ONLY book to describe and illustrate all of the British fuzes used and developed during WW1. Some of these were in service before WW1 and some continued into WW2, whereas …

Nov 13, 2014 · The original 80/44 was a time and percussion fuze for anti-aircraft shrapnel. It was a conversion of the No. 80 by fitting a weaker spring on the percussion unit, omitting the 0-2 …

Apr 22, 2018 · The fuze is a No.101 MkII that has been factory reworked to No.101 E, viz the barring out of the II and one lot number (226) and remarking with E and a new lot number …

British No 101 Mark II fuze (Sectioned), manufactured 1917 (?), H 15cm x 6cm diameter. The No 101 percussion fuze was introduced in 1916 and represented an attempt to overcome the No …

Apr 26, 2014 · UK percussion fuzes up until the end of WW2 were either direct action or graze, the latter was also used with at least some time fuzes. Graze was similar in effect to delay, …