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Armada International, August, 2002 by Keggler, Johnny
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Twenty-five years ago the watch on the reader's wrist was almost certainly based on a clockwork mechanism, but if its present-day counterpart uses a conventional clock dial rather than a digital display, the mechanism that drives those hands will probably be based on electronic circuitry and a quartz crystal. In a world of fuzes, there is a similar trend, in which electronics is proving a relatively inexpensive replacement for mechanical assemblies, particularly clockwork timing mechanisms.
The fuzes fitted to artillery projectiles have traditionally been of four ...
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