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The MK 1 is a time-fused fragmentation grenade and has 32 serrations on it. To start the fuse, the user has to pull the safety pin, then push off the cap on top of the grenade. Right before throwing, the user has to move the switch on the lever away from the grenade in order to start the fuse.
The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during World War II and up to 1991 and possibly later. It was originally developed by Hannibal C. Ford of the Ford Instrument Company [1] and William Newell.
This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F".The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.
A mouse trap type electrical impact fuze, 1 second delay, detonation sets off filler M228 M69 Training fuze with functional fuze to train on the 4–5 second delay C12 M25/A1/A2 Integral detonating fuze, 1.4–3 second delay, detonator bursts body scattering agent M200/A1 M6/A1, M7, M8, M14, M16, M18 A mouse trap type igniting fuze.
A British clockwork Time fuze for an artillery shell using the Thiel mechanism, circa 1936 British aluminium No. 25 Mk IV time fuze, using a burning gunpowder timer, circa 1914, used for star shells. Artillery Time fuzes detonate after a set period of time. Early time fuzes were igniferous (i.e. combustible) using a powder train.
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[1] [2] The Mk 34 GWS was developed to improve the Arleigh Burke -class destroyer's ability to use the Mk 45 gun against a variety of threats. [ 2 ] It is different from previous gun fire-control systems in that it was developed under a one-system concept and is a fully integrated subsystem of Aegis.
The weapon was produced in two models; the enhanced radiation (ERW) W79 Mod 0 and fission-only W79 Mod 1. Both were plutonium -based linear-implosion nuclear weapons . The Mod 0 was a variable yield device with three yields, ranging from 100 tons of TNT (420 GJ ) up to 1.1 kt (4.6 TJ ) and an enhanced- radiation mode which could be turned on or off