A Synchronization gear or a gun synchronizer sometimes rather less accurately referred to as an interrupter is attached to the armament of a single engined tractor-type aircraft so that it can fire through the arc of its spinning propeller without the bullets striking the blades.
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Germany, France
used in war
Korean War, World War II, World War I, Spanish Civil War
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