[Milsurplus] Re: prox. fuzes

[Hue Miller]

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From: "Unserviceable but Repairable" <cosmoline at ba-watch.org>

> Below comes fm Bob Dennison (W2HBE) art'l in fall '96 QCWA Journal
> Sylvania was making 500,000/day @ end of ww2.  Total production was 130
> million

Yes, those were surprising facts.  This would seem to say that the 4 tubes used
in these gizmos were likely the most-produced vacuum tubes in history, beating
out even 6BA6's  and 6CB6's.

Also, appears that we owe the Brits for some of the very best war-winning ideas:
vhf aircraft radio, magnetron microwave radar, and the proximity fuze.
-Hue Miller