Antitank rifle grenade

Fig 1-20-f ANTITANK RIFLE GRENADE HEAT, M31 W/FUZE M211... 

Practice Antitank Rifle Grenade M29 (T42) is used for training. It has no filler nor fuze. 

Grenade. A small explosive or chemical missile which can be either thrown by hand (Hand Grenade), or be projected from the muzzle of a rifle or carbine (Rifle Grenade). Many varieties exist, such as antipersonnel, antitank, chemical, concussion (offensive), defensive, fragmentation, frangible, gas, illuminating, incendiary, practice, riot, smoke and training (Ref 40a, pp 84-51)... 

There are now three general types of rifle grenades used in US high-explosive antitank, practice and chemical (Ref 51b,... 

High-explosive train) 181-84 (Small arms primers) 235-39 (Fuzes for hand grenades) 241-50 (Firing devices for antipersonnel mines and booby traps) 257 (Fuze for rifle grenade) 259-60 (Fuze for 2.36-inch rocket) 263-67 (Fuze for antitank mine) ... 

Accdg to TM 9-1985-4, listed here as Ref 2, the Army Type 2 1/3-kg Cluster Bomb contd Hollow Charge of 50/50-RDX/TNT (pp 29—30 with Fig 25). There were also Type 3 Conical Antitank Hand Grenade with HoC (pp 230-31 with Fig 175) and 30 40-nun HoC Rifle Grenades (pp 239—41 with Fig 182)... 

For rifle grenades the test is conducted essentially in the same manner, with the exception that the grenade is fired from a rifle instead of being propelled from a pneumatic grenade thrower. The "antitank grenades are usually fired against an armor plate... 

Antitank(A/T) Ammunition and Weapons include A/T grenades, guns, incendiaries, mines, rifle grenades and rockets... 

The most sensitive of all high explosives was PETN, which was even more readily detonated than RDX. PETN was desensitized by mixing with TNT to form a composition named pentolite, which has been extensively used in detonators, bazooka rockets, rifle grenades, boosting devices, and in the shaped charges of antitank shells. Because of production difficulties, haleite, the most promising of the new high explosives, never saw much use in World War II except in the form of ednatol in mixtures with other explosives. 

Ever since the invention of NC and NG, attempts were made to apply them either by themselves or in mixtures for military purposes. Under the term uses for military purposes may be understood propellants in rifle, cannon, rocket and pyrotechnic ammunition booster and bursting charges in bombs, grenades, mines (land and sea), artillery projectiles, warheads of torpedoes and of rockets, etc military blasting operations, military cratering, military demolition, military excavation and production of antitank ditches... 

III) Detonation or Explosion., It can be conducted either by initiating the expls contained in ammo, or by the force of detonation of other expl material s placed in contact with the item. Ammo items which can be destroyed by these methods include artillery shells, aerial bombs, mortar shells, shrapnel shells, photoflash bombs, antitank mines, rockets, grenades (hand and rifle), loaded metal components (such as fuzes, primers, detonators, boosters bursters) and pyrotechnic... 

Assault teams, usually armed with rifles, automatic rifles, bazookas, and antitank grenades, saw a great deal of action against dugouts and fortified houses. Flame throwers were seldom added to this armament because a bazooka shell or antitank grenade fired through a window or door usually sufficed. Pillbox-type fortifications impervious to more conventional weapons, however, were considered appropriate targets for flame throwers. ... 

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