The strange British Vickers Wellington ring.
During the early part of World War II, German magnet mines became the bane of British shipping. A brilliant solution to this problem was to create a ring that generated a maganetic field capable of detonating a German mine from the air. The magnetic ring fooled the mine into thinking a ship's hull was nearby, then the mine exploded. This ring was attached to a Vickerts Wellington two engine bomber from its nose to the rear part of the aircraft. On the first trial test taken on January 8, 1940, A Vickers Willington with a magnetic ring flying slow at 35 feet above the sea surface, detonated a submerged German mine, proving that the strange ring really worked.
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