Description
Electronic Time Fuze M587 is used with high explosive and related projectiles where a fuze explosive booster pellet is required to initiate the high explosive filler. The projectile must have a standard 2-inch thread fuze well cavity.
This electronic fuze has a black anodized aluminum ogive and a 2-inch threaded steel base to match the projectile nose and fuze cavity. The fuze nose has a series of rings. This is the means by which the fuze is set, a series of pins within the fuze setter makes contact with the series of rings to import the electrical impulses which set the desired time. The fuze will provide setting time from 0.2 to 200 seconds in increments of tenths of a second. The setting of the fuze is accomplished by the use of the M36 Fuze Setter which is a hand-held battery powered electronic device that time sets the fuze in less than 1 second.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
Hazardous Components
No information about hazardous components.
See Also
ET, Mk 423
Source(s)
TM 43-0001-28, Artillery Ammunition (chg 11, 2003)
MIL-HDBK-146, Fuze Catalog (1982)
