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Sorta related to round black bombs: I recently watched The Spy Who Loved Me, and realized that this is where I got the idea that grenades aren’t thrown like bas
by ryantgtg 5y ago
Sorta related to round black bombs: I recently watched The Spy Who Loved Me, and realized that this is where I got the idea that grenades aren’t thrown like baseballs; instead, you gotta do a kinda straight-armed huck over your shoulder. Not sure if that grenade throw is grounded in reality, or just a thing that war movies made up.
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- kragen 5y agoI don't think it matters very much how you throw a grenade as long as you're out of the way of the shrapnel before it goes off. They're set off by timers, not impact.
- Doxin 5y agoIt matters that you throw it far enough away at least ;-) I think the overhand throw may be a leftover from trench warfare, where you'd need to throw the grenade from high enough to clear the trench you're standing in. Though obviously the same sort of tactic would work from behind various sorts of cover.
- kragen 5y agoI could be wrong about this, but I think as little as 100 mm of granite between you and a modern hand grenade would probably keep you from serious injury. I'm pretty sure that with 100 mm of steel in the way, the worst you'd suffer would be ringing in your ears. So "far enough away" doesn't have to be very far.
- Doxin 5y agohand grenades tend to be anti-personel, so I can see them being ineffective against structures. Still, with the amount of videos on youtube with people fumbling training grenades "far enough away" doesn't seem to be a given.
- kragen 5y agoYeah, it's not. Air has some properties in which it differs substantially from granite.
- Arrath 5y agoI once read in a book (no idea how accurate it was) that a baseball like throw could jar the WWII era detonators in such a way as to cause a premature detonation so such a throwing motion was....cautioned against.