How did soldiers control the altitude at which anti-aircraft ammunition (flak) detonated? How could they know if the flak rounds would go off at 5000 feet, 10,000 feet etc? Were they magnetized somehow to detonate near aircraft? First post. Please be kind. Lol.
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Bursting AA shells were time-fused. You did the math to figure out how long it would take the shell to get to a certain altitude, and then set the fuse.
Later in WW2 radar-fused shells were developed by the US that used a radar in the nose of the shell to detect nearby aircraft.
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