New! Secrets of the VT Fuze - 80 Patents Full-Image CD!

Three major inventions helped turn the tide in WWII: the atomic bomb, radar & the VT Fuze.

Here is the once-super-secret inside story of the famed VT artillery fuze that helped the U.S. & her Allies win WWII against the Japanese in the Pacific & the Germans in europe. Captured here as 16 photographs of the fuze & its component parts & 21 U.S. patent pdf files, this collection is a must for every historian, electrical engineer & student of military technology.

The VT (Variable Time) fuze employed radar technology for the first time to trigger artillery fuzes in close proximity to the desired targets: Japanese kamikazes in the Pacific, Nazi V-1 cruise missiles over England & massed Wehrmacht infantry during the Battle of the Bulge. Developed in total secrecy in many laboratories during the early stages of WWII, the VT fuze overcame the enormous problem of successfully shooting a complex vacuum tube radar set out of cannons.

This CD collection contains additional patents to Sperry, the US Navy & others on related radar fuzes, radiosonde shells & missle guidance systems developed in the U.S. during WWII.

Included is an official history of the Radio Proximity (VT) Fuze by the U.S. Naval Historical Center as well as 17 color & black & white photos.

The pdf files on this CD-ROM require Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download) or equivalent & a PC-type computer with a CD drive in order to view them.

This disc contains over 10 megabytes of information!