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Hand Grenades

Monday, April 27, 2009 , Posted by SamSal at 10:33 PM

When the Chinese first discovered the explosives, they obviously came to be the inventors of the first destructive devices. In addition to using the wheel recreational purposes, such as fireworks, sometimes stuffed into cardboard tubes or possibly bamboo, introducing a wick and then throwing the switch on the handheld explosives into cities under siege or enclosures.

Unable to speak, however, real hand grenades XVIII. century until now began to use new containers for gunpowder. First made of molten glass, but then used the iron. Equipped with fuses, these bombs were carried to the battlefield by specialist troops. Known as the grenade had similarity with the fruit of this plant, the soldiers threw that were grouped in units of grenadiers. These bodies gained much importance in some European armies, and then Americans, names that are still used today.

Description

A hand grenade is an explosive device that, because their small size, can be launched by a single soldier to the enemy, detonating at a safe distance from the launcher.

Despite popular belief, the grenades are not very powerful. Its radius of action (ie the area which cause much harm, or death) is usually in the 10 meters at most (depending on whether or not guns), while the strongest blast never happens of five meters. This is a logical question: can not throw a grenade over 35 meters, so there must be a minimum distance between the grenade and launcher, so that this does not leave wounded.

General Operation

All shells have a number of parts and mechanisms more or less equal, depending on its type, the most common are shown in the chart below. The three main ones are:

- Body is the shell of the device, which contains all the mechanisms preventing the entry or exit of components. It also tends to be one of those responsible for the production of shrapnel. May consist of different materials (see below).
- Fusing: the number of insurance mechanisms and preventing the outbreak of Grenada until the desired moment, and then ensures that the engine erupts in the manner for which it was designed. There are many types of fuses, which are explained below.
- Multiplier and explosive charge: to prevent accidents and failures of the grenades, explosive materials are particularly stable. These materials do not explode by heat, sometimes even if seats are directly in the fire. Thus it needs the Granada have in your heart a little more sensitive explosive material, capable of being lit by small fuse mechanisms.

Hand grenade Lafitte (1921)

Source: France-Italy
Use: Offensive and defensive
Width: 6 cm.
Length: 14 cm.
Booster: Fusing impact
Explosive: 200 grs. of nitramita
Weight: 415 grs.
Radius of Action: 8 / 10 theorists meters (up to 30 reais)
Material: Tinplate
Color: beige or khaki cap with yellow

Granada rifle (1912)

Origin: Spain
Range: 230 to 240 meters
Use: Offensive
Weight: 710 to 715 grs.
Radius of action: + / - 80 meters
Material: Brass
Explosive: 85-95 grams. trilita soul of central tetralita
Color: --
Granada was a rifle that was launched with a rabiza 40 cm. with a 7 mm Mauser rifle.

Hand grenade" Model 1921 "(1921)

Origin: Spain
Use: Defensive
Width: 60 mm.
Length: 70 mm.
Booster: pyrotechnic delay of 5 to 6 seconds
Explosive: 65 grs. of black powder rifle
Weight: 800 grs.
Radius of 100 m.
Material: Iron
Color: --

German hand grenade M-24 Stielhandgranate (1913)

Origin: Germany
Weight: 600 gr.
Width: 60 mm.
Radius of action: 15 meters
Length: 356 mm.
Material: Mango wood and metal wrapped explosive.
Booster: BZ26 pyrotechnic delay of 4-5 seconds Color: Green
Explosive: 165 gr. TNT

French hand grenade F-1 (1915)

Origin: France
Color: Blue-Gray
Use: Defensive
Weight: 630 grs.
Width: 64 mm.
Radius of 100 m.
Length: 164 mm.
Material: Iron
Booster: Pyrotechnic Delay
Explosive: 60g. of cheddita (Chlorate and dinitrotoluene)

Hand grenade French Fouga Citron

Origin: France
Color: Blue-Gray
Use: Defensive
Weight: 550 grs.
Width: 61 mm.
Radius of action: --
Length: 145 mm.
Material: Iron
Booster: percussive Fusing
Explosive: 50 grs. of cheddita

Italian hand grenade SRCM (1940)

Origin: Italy
Width: 64 mm.
Length: 80 mm.
Booster: Fusing impact
Explosive: 43 gr. TNT
Weight: 200 gr.
Radius of action: 12 meters
Material: Aluminum
Color: Red

Italian hand grenade BREDA

Origin: Italy
Width: 50/54 mm.
Length: 80 mm.
Booster: Fusing impact
Explosive: 63 gr. TNT
Weight: 180 gr.
Radius of action: 15 meters
Material: Aluminum
Color: Red

Italian hand grenade OTO

Origin: Italy
Width: 58 mm.
Length: 96 mm.
Booster: Fusing impact
Explosive: 70 gr. TNT
Weight: 150 gr.
Radius of action: 15 meters
Material: Aluminum
Color: Red

Granada Model 31 Hand Polish

Source: Poland
Explosive: TNT
Use: Offensive (B-1) / Defensive (Mod.31 or Wz.31)
Weight: 600 grs. (M-31) 275 grs. (B-1)
Width: 57 mm.
Radius of action: --
Length: 112 mm.
Material: Iron (M-31) and brass (B-1)
Booster: Pyrotechnic Delay
Color: Black

British hand grenade "Mills"

Source: United Kingdom
Width: 61 mm.
Length: 95.2 mm.
Booster: pyrotechnic delay of 4 or 7 seconds
Explosive: TNT barium nitrate
Weight: 765 grs.
Radius of action: --
Material: Iron
Color: Green

Soviet hand grenade F-1

Source: USSR
Use: Defensive
Width: 55 mm.
Length: 117 mm.
Booster: Pyrotechnic Delay
Explosive: 60g. TNT
Weight: 600 grs.
Radius of 100 m. (30 m. lethal)
Material: Iron
Color: Green-yellow in the CGE, in olive green IIGM.

Hand grenade "Castle"

Origin: Spain
Use: Offensive
Width: 60 mm.
Length: 105 mm.
Booster: Mecha Bickford nine inches
Explosive: 200 grs. wildfire
Weight: 395 grs.
Radius of action: 12 meters
Material: Tinplate and rubber
Color: Gray or black

Hand grenade "Ball bed"

Source: Poland
Width: --
Length: --
Booster: Pyrotechnic Delay
Explosive: TNT or Amonal
Weight: --
Radius of action: --
Material: Tinplate
Color: Gray or black

Hand grenade "Universal"

Origin: Spain
Use: Defensive
Width: 40-45 mm. the six rows of eight and 45
Length: 75-80 mm. the six rows and eight of the 100
Booster: Pyrotechnic Delay
Explosive: 45 grs. of amatol or nitramina
Weight: 600 grs.
Radius of action: --
Material: Iron
Color: Black

Hand grenade "IAF"

Origin: Spain
Use: Defensive
Length: --
Booster: Fusing impact
Explosive: Powder
Weight: --
Radius of 25 m. Approx.
Material: Iron
Color: --

Hand grenade "Republic"

Origin: Spain
Width: --
Length: 18 cm
Booster: Pyrotechnic Delay
Explosive: --
Weight: --
Radius of action: --
Material: Iron
Color: --

Defensive hand grenade "in discos"

Origin: Spain
Use: Defensive
Width: --
Length: --
Booster: Pyrotechnic Delay
Explosive: --
Weight: --
Radius of action: --
Material: Iron
Color: --

Hand grenade Hispanic (Model B)

Origin: Spain
Use: Defensive
Width: 40 mm. ca
Length: 150 mm. Approx.
Booster: Fusing impact
Explosive: --
Weight: --
Radius of action: --
Material: Iron
Color: Gray

Hand anti Granada

Origin: Spain
Weight: 550 grs. Approx.
Width: 60 mm.
Radius of action: --
Length: 160 mm.
Material: Steel
Booster: Mecha and a multiplier of the fuse B-3 Color: Gray
Explosive: 500 grs. gelatin explosive or trilita

Hand grenades craft

It was composed of a steel tube with two lids and screw an intern at the center that remained in position. Activation was by means of a wick and, of course, there are a lot of models depending on who created the.

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