After the magazines were evacuated, Lieutenant-Commander F. C. Darley climbed down the hoist and successfully removed the fuze.
Reloading the deck takes at least a few minutes, assuming the crew is well drilled and the rockets are already prepared (as in, removed from their wooden crates, with fuzes inserted, and handy).
We need other options for disarming America's gun culture by removing the "fuze" or threat of violence over the long term.
Among the various definitions of the verb "disarm" are the following: (1) to deprive of a weapon or weapons, (2) to remove the fuze or other actuating device from (e.g., to disarm a bomb), and (3) to divest or relieve of hostility, suspicion, etc.
Aside from removing the "fuze" or threat of violence by imprisonment or by commitment for bona fide mental health reasons (Definition #2), the latter definitions reflect preventive measures that are dependent upon education, training, counseling, and other types of acculturation strategies and interventions for individuals, families, neighborhoods, organizations, and the like.
And if the fuze's timing was off, he said, the rocket would strike the ground or a building, the fuze would shear off and the apparatus would fail to explode.
A roll-decoupled course correction fuze with canards can improve the hit accuracy of conventional unguided ammunitions.
By the end of 1944, VT fuzes were coming off the production lines at the rate of 40,000 per day.
The Fuze is competing mainly on price.
