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2013-10-20 Science & Technology

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-10-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Oi vey. People are going to screw up with these things...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-20 05:34|| 2013-10-20 05:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Heard the Germans in WW II had "assault grenades", whose body was made of cement. Intense effect up close but very small radius of injury, so you could pitch them far enough that you were beyond the unfortnate-result range and keep going, rather than duck until it went off. Useful throwing into rooms whose walls might be some sheetrock or something. Not going to come back and bite you.
OTOH, maybe they ran out of steel.
Virtue from necessity.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2013-10-20 06:59|| 2013-10-20 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I also saw a description of a uniform shell with custom packing for explosive content. Something of a roll-yer-own mission specific munition. Hard to mix 'more lethal/less range' with 'less lethal/more coverage' in a handheld.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-10-20 07:32|| 2013-10-20 07:32|| Front Page Top

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