[Milsurplus] submi-s, prox. fuzes

[Bob Camp]

Hi

According to at least one reference usage of shells in the ETO was in 
the 2 to 3 million per month range for 105 and 155 rounds. By 1944 AA 
usage was way down. At the rate they were making fuses they must have 
been planning on a awful lot of action in the Pacific ....

	Bob Camp
	KB8TQ


On Jul 21, 2004, at 9:47 PM, antqradio at juno.com wrote:

>> 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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