BT Fuze Products (BTFP) ensures that shells, bombs, and missiles blow up...but only if and when they are supposed to. The days of lighting fuzes by hand and watching them burn down with growing drama are long gone; today's electronic, mechanical, and electro-mechanical fuzes are highly engineered products used to detonate tank, artillery, and mortar shells with precision timing. BTFP also makes arming and safe devices for artillery, canister munitions, air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and anti-ship missiles. BTFP, which traces its roots to the Bulova Watch Company, was acquired by L-3 Communications in 2001.