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A Magnetic proximity fuze was patented by P.J. Eliomarkakis (United States Patent US2434551 of January 13 1948) although similar devices had been in service for nearly a decade. It is a type of proximity fuze that initiates a detonator in a piece of ordnance such as a land mine naval mine depth charge or shell when the fuse’s magnetic equilibrium is upset by a magnetic object such as a tank or a submarine.

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