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Flare fuze M111
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US Fuze M111
With a delay from 15 to 93 sec, you have an original M111 time fuze (from 5 to 93 is A1 version and from 5 to 92 is A2 version).
It was often used on the UK 4"5 Parachute Flare.
With a delay from 15 to 93 sec, you have an original M111 time fuze (from 5 to 93 is A1 version and from 5 to 92 is A2 version).
It was often used on the UK 4"5 Parachute Flare.
Dave posted a query on this fuze four years ago,
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/71911-Flare-fuze-M111
And it's conventional use by the British is mentioned in the thread. Just for the record it was also used in trials (and perhaps operationally) by the SOE R & D organisation in connection with container dropping. The idea being to drop containers from a relatively safe height for the aircraft with the fuze being used to deploy the parachute 'near' the ground.
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/71911-Flare-fuze-M111
And it's conventional use by the British is mentioned in the thread. Just for the record it was also used in trials (and perhaps operationally) by the SOE R & D organisation in connection with container dropping. The idea being to drop containers from a relatively safe height for the aircraft with the fuze being used to deploy the parachute 'near' the ground.
