VTG Hamilton Watch Tech Co US Navy Military Navairsyscom Inert Fuse Bomb Display For Sale

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Source: CAT-UXO.com

This is the American Mk 339, a Mechanical-Time-Fuze (MTF), spring-driven clockwork, nose fuze designed to be a universal fuze for canister or cluster-bomb type weapons that are delivered from high-performance aircraft.

It is presently employed on the cluster-bomb, anti-tank, Mk 20 Rockeye, CBU-99 and CBU-100 and in other weapons which dispense a payload or submunitions.

The nose-mounted Mk 339 fuze provides two accurate pre-flight settable times; either one can be selected in-flight.

Explosive leads and bursters to open the canister are not a part of the fuze but are provided as a part of the canister case.

In flight, the pilot may select either one of two time intervals.

The functioning time for either of the two settings can, for the MOD 0, range from 1.2 to 50-secs and for the MOD 1 range, from 1.2 to 100-secs.

The two inner dials for each MOD are marked in 0.1-sec increments.

The timing accuracy is within 0.100-secs for settings from 1.2 to 10-secs and within 1% for settings greater than 10-secs.

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Great condition, amazing display, very rare, and from what I can find is a Hamilton Watch company display piece provided to high level executives. This item was always used as a practice / display tool, was never functioning, and is inert.