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AA 106 Float and Float Release. Handling and releasing the float for
the receivers was the chief difficulty encountered in the development of
AA 106. Several different ty-pes of shapes of floats were experimented with,
but apparently no satisfactory one was developed. The main difficulty was to
keep the float oriented properly when moored in a tideway on a short cable.
Difficulty was also encountered in properly relasing the float from the
mine. The float was carried inside the cylindrical open-ended protective
cover (Schutzhaube 10), and released, a short time after the mine reached
the bottom, by the firing of an electro-mechanical device. |
