[Milsurplus] submi-s, prox. fuzes

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>From the "Proximity Fuze" by Louis Brown in IEEE AES Systems Magazine,
July 1993:

22M fuzzes made @ $18.00 each toward the war's end
Second only to making "the bomb" and developing radar in terms of cost
400,000 tubes per day with 95% coming from Sylvania

May have been "over produced" but no one knew when the war would end.
Still less waste then the BC-645, thousands made but never used?
Has anyone ever seen one not new out of the box?

I seem to remember that when the Iowa class battleships were
recommissioned, 
they were still using WW2 made shells and powder in the 16 inch guns!
Jim

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:50:46 +0100 "Jeremy M. Harmer"
<jeremy at webiosis.co.uk> writes:
> > Sylvania was making 500,000/day @ end of ww2.  Total production was 
> 130
> > million
> 
> 
> Is that for proxy fuzes or for everything? I missed/lost the 
> earlier
> messages.
> 
> For proxy fuzes I can't spot that figure in my refs - not that that 
> means
> much! The book The Deadly Fuze quotes 22M total to 1945, with 
> Sylvania
> making 5.68M. That's complete proxy fuzes, so valve-wise that is 88M 
> @ 4
> valves per fuze, not including valves destined for other uses.
> 
> And of the 88M I only have 6! Huh.
> 
> Jeremy.
> 
> Visit the Virtual Valve Museum http://www.tubecollector.org/
> Valves wanted!
> 
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