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proximity fuse
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proximity fuse [präk′sim·əd·ē ‚fyüz]
(ordnance)
A fuse that detonates a warhead when the target is within some specified region near the fuse; radio, radar, photoelectric, or other devices may be used as activating elements. Also known as influence fuse; variable-time fuse; vt fuse.


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As Professors Haynes and Klehr remarked, when Rosenberg was employed on a classified military project at Emerson Radio, he "achieved a singular espionage coup, stealing a working sample of the proximity fuze, one of the most innovative advances of American military technology in World War II.
The proximity fuze will provide a large burst over the target that will equal the radius of the GMLRS DPICM rocket.
 
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