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Unknown Fuze (to me)
- Thread starter Chris
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It's a Krupp percussion fuze with setable delay, delivered to many countries. Used for 9,xx until 15,xx cm shells. Maybe even larger. With 0 T V possibly made for the Netherlands or Belgium. Sweden, Bulgaria and South American countries had them too and for sure some other I don't know. Also Germany used them during 1st WW. Inside the shell it's a pretty long and heavy fuze and not often seen.
0 = without delay
T = transport
V = delay
Drawing can be found in the dutch manuals for example (can't access my archive at moment)
0 = without delay
T = transport
V = delay
Drawing can be found in the dutch manuals for example (can't access my archive at moment)
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Hello Chris,
We already talked about it in this post : http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/83125-Unknown-WW1-Fuze?highlight=krupp+fuze+shell+german
I found the same on a fired 15cm (same as Gr14) in ww1 battelfield (I thought to German shell or captured Belgian shell used by German).
We already talked about it in this post : http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/83125-Unknown-WW1-Fuze?highlight=krupp+fuze+shell+german
I found the same on a fired 15cm (same as Gr14) in ww1 battelfield (I thought to German shell or captured Belgian shell used by German).
Yes, there are different shapes of these fuzes but the functionality is always the same. I really wonder if your fuze was may be introduced in Belgium? But I don't have documents about Belgium, it's still a black box for me. Do you know in which country it was found? I also wouldn't wonder if the Netherlands at least got some of them for trials. The Dutch No.2 is also one of this series, probably the earliest.
@MINENAZ16: This 15 cm Gr. 14 was called may be "15 cm Gr. 14 mit Krupp-Zünder". I read about it in the archives but sadly no drawing was attached. But there is still one more candidate for this shell: the dutch Schokbuis No.16 because it would fit directly into a 15 cm Gr.14 and I think it was used during WW1 (most probably taken from stocks produced for the Netherlands which were never delivered because the war started)
@MINENAZ16: This 15 cm Gr. 14 was called may be "15 cm Gr. 14 mit Krupp-Zünder". I read about it in the archives but sadly no drawing was attached. But there is still one more candidate for this shell: the dutch Schokbuis No.16 because it would fit directly into a 15 cm Gr.14 and I think it was used during WW1 (most probably taken from stocks produced for the Netherlands which were never delivered because the war started)
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