I’ve seen the videos of boot instructors being rightfully paranoid that the boots are gonna drop the live grenades during training, I feel like adding these into the mix would straight up give them heart attacks.
The fun part is they used to be shipped without the ignitor installed so a lot of the duds were simply because people didn’t follow instructions and didn’t grab the little tin filled with ignitors.
3/4 of volume is taken by wood, what are you, russian logistics officer?
also no way to attach spoon-type igniter, this thing is properly ancient design
want longer range? hear me out:
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I’ve seen the videos of boot instructors being rightfully paranoid that the boots are gonna drop the live grenades during training, I feel like adding these into the mix would straight up give them heart attacks.
yeah, this would end badly. which is why bore-safe 40mm grenades were made (and rifle grenades before that)
Ye olde grenade yeeter
The fun part is they used to be shipped without the ignitor installed so a lot of the duds were simply because people didn’t follow instructions and didn’t grab the little tin filled with ignitors.
soviet pattern grenades are shipped disassembled even today, but it’s kinda harder to miss that you don’t have the entire pin and spoon mechanism
Yep, with potato mashers they were inside and hidden.
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