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Bookmark or Share- Types of Hand Grenades - Army Education Benefits BlogThe six types of handgrenades according to FM 3-23.30. The hand grenade is a hand-held, hand-armed, and hand-thrown weapon. U.S. forces use colored smoke, white smoke, riot-control, special purpose, fragmentation, offensive, and practice hand grenades.
- United States hand grenades - WikipediaUnited States hand grenades - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) High explosive, fragmentation, and blast. Smoke and signaling grenades. Chemical grenades. Incendiary grenades. Stun grenades. Training grenades. Common fuzes. See also. Citations. References. External links. United States hand grenades.
- Weapons: The Hand Grenade - Warfare History NetworkThe hand grenade consisted of a cast iron sphere with an approximately four-inch diameter with a time fuse. Combatants also began using hand grenades on ships as an aid to boarding an enemy vessel or repelling enemy boarders. In the 17th century, lighter and less costly hand bombs made of thick tempered glass began to appear.
- Military Service Member’s Guide to Grenades - TacticalGear.comGrenade Anatomy. Hand grenades have seven or eight basic parts: a casing, a fuse, a detonator, a safety pin, a striker lever (or "spoon"), a striker, a percussion cap, and (in some cases) fragmentation material or some other kind of extra payload. The casing is the body of the grenade that houses most of the other components.
- US Army developing first new hand grenade in 40 yearsThe US military is getting its first new hand grenade in 40 years as engineers at ARDEC work on a safer multi-purpose design. Called the Enhanced Tactical Multi-Purpose (ET-MP) hand...
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