Proximity Fuzes

This may be a matter of semantics and/or of terminology; however, proximity fuzes have been used in warfare at least since the Napoleonic era. At that time, both land based and naval mortar batteries used projectiles packed with explosives that were detonated by a fuze that was cut to a specific length according to the estimated time that would expire from the time the fuze was ignited to the time the projectile was delivered to the target and the burn rate of the fuze. It is also my understanding that proximity fuzes were in use during WWI and were far more effective than the author suggests. Certainly, many of the millions of shells that were fired detonated upon impact with the ground but many more detonated above ground level. This is why the vast majority of combat casualties were the result of artillery fire. Bingcarb (talk) 01:02, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

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