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Dogfights tend to overshadow our conception of aerial warfare yet AA guns also play a big role. Lets look at a secret fuze the US Navy used to prevail versus Japanese air power.

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⚜ Sources ⚜
Norman Friedman, Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery, Naval Institute Press

Benjamin S. Walker, The Navy and the Applied Physics Laboratory, Naval Institute Press

Ed Jennings, Crosley's Secret War Effort - The Proximity Fuze

Edward A. Sharpe, The Radio Proximity Fuze - A survey

VT Fuzes For Projectiles and Spin-Stabilized Rockets, OP 1480, 1946

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