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Usage examples of "proximity fuses".
The shield crews were slower to grab his attacks, and the proximity fuses detonated within meters of the ship.
He kept pushing until their proximity fuses detected the pull of a dovin basal and blasted a pair of deep hollows in the vessel's hull.
Hyper missiles were useless, for they could not home on evading targets, so sublight counter-missiles raced to meet them, blossoming in megaton bursts as proximity fuses activated.
Moreover, Iraq had not been able to obtain or develop proximity fuses that would function in a ballistic missile to allow the warhead to detonate above the target (the ideal location for spreading chemical or biological agents), nor had it developed cluster submunitions or other ways to spray the agent when the warhead was detonated.
Primary and backup proximity fuses flashed as one, and a fifty-megaton explosion erupted one hundred meters from the Masadan flagship.
Her cruiser clawed around, interposing her sidewall, and two of the incoming missiles ran physically into it and perished before their proximity fuses could trigger.
In other words, how many loose missiles with proximity fuses were wandering around on the last heading they'd followed.
Hyper missiles were useless, for they could not home on evading targets, so sublight counter-missiles raced to meet them, blossoming in megaton bursts as proximity fuses activated Eye-searing flashes pocked the holographic display, and red dots began to die.
Thirty feet away, laser proximity fuses detonated, filling the air with lethal fragments.