Bomblet fuze

In a fuze for an explosive projectile, including:

• a fuze housing;
• a first primary firing pin mounted in said housing for axial displacement in the longitudinal direction;
• a detonation charge carried by a slide disposed in said housing adjacent and below said primary firing pin, said slide being mounted in said housing for displacement transverse to said longitudinal direction of said housing, and to its center longitudinal axis, between a safety position, wherein said detonation charge is not aligned with said firing pin, and an armed position, wherein said detonation charge is aligned with said firing pin;
• self destruct means provided in said slide, and including an ignition element disposed adjacent an edge of said slide, for causing self destruction of at least said fuze after a given time delay following ignition of said ignition element;
• and a second firing pin mounted laterally in said fuze housing at a position for causing ignition of said ignition element upon displacement of said slide into said armed position;
• the improvement wherein said second firing pin is a flat strip of sheet metal in the shape of a pointed wedge disposed in the displacement path of said slide, and is an inwardly bent end portion of an integrated, tongue-like, upwardly bent sheet-metal strip member of a flat sheet metal spring disc disposed in the direct proximity of a lower surface of said slide and extending over the entire cross sectional area of said fuze housing.