Hand Grenades
For centuries, the hand grenade has proven useful for clearing out pesky enemy emplacements.
1984
The Arges Type HG 84 series anti-personnel fragmentation hand grenade is Austrian in nature. It is a conventional hand grenad...
1935
In 1935, just prior to World War 2, the Italian Army adopted three infantry hand grenades under the Modello 35 ("Model 35") ...
2006
F1 designates the standard fragmentation hand grenade of the modern Australian Army (otherwise known as the Australian Defens...
1915
The F1 served the French Army through World War 1 and World War 2 as a standard anti-personnel fragmentation infantry hand gr...
1939
"F1" is used to designate a variety of hand grenades of modern design and of the 20th century. The Soviet Union used the F1 d...
1985
The HG 85 is a time fuse-detonated fragmentation grenade system packed with 155 grams of TNT. Each unit weighs in at 465 gram...
1950
L2 marked the British military version of the American M26 fragmentation hand grenade that appeared in the early 1950s. The M...
1950
When America entered World War 1 in 1917, it lacked much in the way of modern war weapons. Army forces were delivered various...
1952
The M61 was a standardized fragmentation hand grenade utilized primarily by the United States and Canadian armed forces durin...
1971
The M67 is a fragmentation-based hand-grenade utilized to supplement infantry actions in the field. The hand grenade concept ...
1917
The Mk 1 series fragmentation hand grenade was issued to American troops and led a rather short operational service tenure wi...
1915
As World War broadened across Europe following the events of 1914, design work began on a new standard hand grenade for the B...
1918
The Mk II/Mk 2 series fragmentation grenade was the standard American Army infantry hand grenade from 1918 until the 1960s. P...
1915
The Stielhandgranate was the quintessential hand grenade of the German Army in both World War 1 and World War 2. The type bec...
1982
The OD/82 was adopted by the Italian Army in 1982 as its standard infantry fragmentation hand grenade. In practice, there pro...
1940
RPG-40 (ruchnaya protivotankovaya granata, translating to "hand-held tank grenade") was a standard anti-tank hand grenade uti...
1943
In June of 1941, the German Army invaded the Soviet Union through "Operation Barbarossa" beginning the East Front which would...
1935
The Italian Army of World War 2 utilized three primary hand grenade series all under the designation of "Model 1935" - the ty...
1921
The Type 10 grenade proved the first indigenously designed and adopted fragmentation grenade for the Empire of Japan. The wea...
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