SOME BELGIAN FUSES
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Main Belgian fuses characteristics
PERCUSSION FUSES
Percussion fuse for fortress artillery DOUBLE EFFECT FUSES
Double effect fuse for Field Gun
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Afterwards, mainly french guns and howitzers, given by the France, allowed to that courageous small army to use a sufficiently strong fire power. The Belgian fuses from that period are therefore mainly ... French fuses !
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Percussion fuse for 120 and 150 mm caliber Brass fuse, with 51 mm screw thread.
Designed and built by the Belgian Pyrotecnics School ("EP" marking). This percussion fuse was built under 3 different marks, with a "O" marking for howitzers munition use, "M" for mortars munitions use, and no special marking for guns use. The model shown in the pictures, wearing "OM" markings, was supposingly suitable for at least both mortars and howitzers. This fuse equipped the munitions of the
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Double effect fuse for 75 mm shell Brass fuse, graduated from 2 to 55 hundreds of meter with 50 meters steps, with 51 mm screw thread.
Designed and built at the Belgian Pyrotecnics School before 1914 ("EP" markings sometimes visble - not on the model shown). That fuse equipped the :
A model entirely made of aluminium was also existing. Return at the top of the page
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