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El AZ Re4

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Bellifortis

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I just have been reading in a 1945 CIOS report about the fuzing system of the FZG 76 (V1 flying bomb). There it is reported that a large number of new fuzes, El AZ Re 4C, coloured bright blue, had been found at a fuze dump at the Dunnenberg assembly plant for the V1. This fuze is technically a mixture of the normally used (80)A , Ent.(106) , El AZ (106). With this fuze the wires enter the body on the side below the top. The report also mentions a fuze El AZ Re4A which technically is nearly the same, but the wires enter from the top, same as in the (106). Also pictured are fuze models (80)E , (80) F and Re 4b. I have never seen this fuzes anywhere and have also never seen any german documentation. All these fuzes were specially for use in the V1. Does anyone here have any more Info ?
Regards,
Bellifortis.
 
Waffy everything is for sell, if the price is ok, you should know this but this fuze is not for sell, sorry
 
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I don't know if they were used. The 1945 CIOS report says, that they surmise that this fuze may be was to be used in the manned "Reichenberg" models. It also says that the 2 aft fuze pockets were normally found (duds in England) armed with the (80)A and the ZZ (17)BM. Apparently EOD in England first thought that the 17 BM was inserted by mistake. The report states that at the time (1945) the understanding had changed, that use of the 17 BM was standard, as a safety measure to make the warhead function, even if all other systems, especially the electrical ones, failed. As this new fuze ElAZ Re4 fulfills the functions of all the other normally used ones : El.AZ (106), Ent.(106), (80)A or E or F and ZZ (17)BM, but had to be inserted in a fuzehole accesible from the outside to attach the arming wire, there must have been some bigger constructional differences in the bombmodel. I don't have any detailed constructional info of late war experimental models at my disposal. May be there is somebody out there whose research is more specialised on the V1. I also would be interested to learn more about these fuzes.
Regards,
Bellifortis.
 
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