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Russian depth charge fuses KV and KVM

William49

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I'm looking for info about Russian depth charge fuses KV and KVM. The KV has 4 blades and the KVM has 6 blades. The fuses were used in Russian depth charges B-30 and B-30M.
 

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Design straight stolen from the British Fuze No.420 Hedgehog fuze.

'Better good stolen than badly conceived' as we say in the Netherlands
 
Pulled from this site: Multi-barrel bomb launchers (narod.ru)
In 1949, hedgehog was reproduced domestically. industry under the name MBU-200, on the basis of which in 1956. developed and adopted the MBU-600 with a firing range of up to 650 m. B-30 and B-30M bombs were used as ammunition for the MBU, respectively. explosive weight of 13 and 14.4 kg, A KVM contact fuze and a diving speed of 7 m/s.
 

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