Grenade fillings

The Hague Conference did not prevent some nations from discussing the use of chemical weapons, and at least one country, France, experimented publicly with gas. The French Army tested a grenade filled with... [Pg.9]

It is prepared by nitration of m-cresoldisulfonic acid. During the First World War, 60 40 mixtures of trinitrocresol and picric acid were used (under the name of Kresylith) as grenade fillings, since they melt at a temperature as low as 85 °C (185 °F). [Pg.417]

Trinitronaphthalene is difficult to detonate. It was used, in mixture with other compounds, as grenade filling, especially in France and Belgium. It is of no technological interest at resent. [Pg.418]

If non-electric detonators or squibs are available for use as detonators for the grenade filling,these should be used rather than just a bare fuse-end as the initiator. Alternatively,roll up a small charge of match-heads in rolling papers and attach that to the fuse-end for more certain ignition. [Pg.122]

Important industrial premises were to be protected by means of a grenade filled with hydrogen cyanide which would function when the wire fence was cut — Hand grenades filled with cyanide solution would be given to guards... [Pg.38]

Their expl props resembled expl ONo 4 K chlorate 90, paraffin 10, previously manufd in Fr. Minelite B, under the designation ONo 6, was used by the Fr during WWI for filling grenades and land mines. A similar expl, contg 90% Na chlorate instead of K chlorate, was used in grenades and trench mortar bombs (Refs 3 4) Refs 1) H. Dautriche, MP 16, 211-2 224-9 (1911-1912) 2) Marshall 1, 382 (1917)... [Pg.152]

Munitions suitable for use. The pure cryst form (identified by symbol CS) is used as filling for buming-type grenades and capsules. A mixt of... [Pg.408]

Fill the container half full of coarse thermate (obtained from the AN M-14 incendiary grenade or homemade). [Pg.65]

Fill and Press Technology for Production of Colored Smoke Grenades Pine Bluff Arsenal. Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71602-9500 (1982). [Pg.167]

It has a deeply serrated cast iron body filled with 2 oz of flaked TNT and fitted with one of the fuzes M6A4C, M204A1 or M204A2 (These fuzes are not described in Ref 51b) After the safety pin is withdrawn and the grenade is thrown, the striker is released and driven by its spring hits thb primer. The... [Pg.830]

Smoke Rifle Grenade, WP, M19A1 with MID Fuze, shown in Fig l-20g, consists of three basic pgrts the body, the fuze, and the stabilizer, made of steel. The cylindrical body, 2-inches in diameter, is made of sheet steel and is fitted with a rounded ogive. It is filled with 8.5 oz of white phosphorus and is completely sealed to prevent the entrance of air. The fuze is MID (mechanical impact detonating) type. [Pg.834]

Phosphorous grenade consisted of a sheet metal can filled with yellow phosphorous and provided with an explosive device. Although the primary aim of such grenades was smoke-production they were also incendiary weapons... [Pg.336]

Thermite grenade consisted of a cylindrical sheet iron container filled with thermite (about 600g) slightly moistened with sodium silicate. In the center of the thermite was a cavity in which... [Pg.336]

The Japanese, during WWII, used two kinds of grenades, those filled with yellow phosphorous and those containing rubber pellets impregnated with phosphorous-carbon disulfide solution (Ref 9, p 56)... [Pg.337]

Fig 389 on p 239) was a heavy cardboard cylinder 6% inches long, which contd a filling of an incendiary type which burned with an intense white flame. It was fired from the Type 89 Grenade Discharger. A cylindrical proplnt container was attached at the base ... [Pg.472]

Type 99 Hand Grenade had a cast-steel cylindrical body 354 by 2 inches with smooth surface, filled with cast PA. Delay 4—5 secs (Ref 2, p... [Pg.477]

Incendiary Stick Grenade had light steel cylindrical body with hemispherical ends and wooden handle threaded into the base. Length of body 13.2 inches, diam 2.1 inches and length of handle 5.3 inches. The body was filled with 41 rubber pellets, each impregnated with a soln of WP in carbon disulfide. The pellets were scattered by means of a small central burster chge. [Pg.478]

It is possible that the Grenade was filled sometimes with a SP smoke filling (Ref 2, pp 234—... [Pg.478]

Molotov Cocktail, called Frangible Incendiary Grenade in Ref 1, p 200. Its body consisted of a Japanese beer bottle into the top of which was tightly fitted an all-way action fuze. The bottle, 11% inches long 2-1/3 inches in diam was filled with ca 12 oz of an inflammable benzene-type liquid (Ref 2, pp 235—36 with Fig 179)... [Pg.478]

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