How close can you survive a grenade?

Most grenades will detonate about 3-5 seconds after the trigger is released, giving you a few critical moments to react. The kill radius from a grenade’s explosion is about 15 feet, and the casualty radius is about 50 feet, though pieces of shrapnel can still fly much farther than that.

What happens to a grenade in space?

Yes, it would explode. Most hand grenades are nowadays triggered chemically, electrically or contain a fuze enclosed within the assembly, so they don’t require atmospheric oxygen to ignite, are watertight and otherwise more reliably go off at a preset time since activation.

What happens if a bullet hits a grenade?

The bullet will penetrate the armor of the grenade causing the explosive to go off making the explosion kind of how a normal grenade works. So yes it will explode if you shoot it.

Can a grenade hurt you underwater?

In an explosion surrounded by air, the atmosphere will compress and absorb some of the explosive energy. However, an underwater explosion transmits pressure with greater intensity over a longer distance. If you stood outside of shrapnel range for an exploding hand grenade, you’d likely remain unharmed.

Does a grenade explode if shot?

If it was loose the bullet might just ricochet off without doing much to it. Either way, it would be unwise to try using that grenade afterwards. No, the grenade would not explode. Munitions don’t explode from being shot.

What do seals yell when they throw a grenade?

FRAG OUT! The grenade is a fragmentation grenade, because when it blows up it throws fragments through the air, hence the term “FRAG OUT.” This phrase is yelled loud for all others in the unit to hear. Once you throw the grenade, hit the deck.

How hard is it to get the pin out of a grenade?

The Russian F1 grenade takes about 8 kg (17 pounds) of pull power to get the pin out. Or as one soldier, referring to the Singapore SFG87 grenade, notes, “The pin was actually partially wrapped around the spoon (handle) of the grenade and was extremely stiff.

What would happen if the guy had not bent the grenade?

Worse still, the guy had not bent the cotter pin of the grenade over, so that at any moment…the gear would fall, the pin would be pulled out, the grenades’ primer would ignite, and give seconds later everyone in the hooch at the time would be killed or horribly wounded.

How much force does it take to pull a grenade out?

For example, the relatively common M67 grenade takes about 3-5 kg (about 7 to 11 pounds) of force to pull free stock. The Russian F1 grenade takes about 8 kg (17 pounds) of pull power to get the pin out.

What is the fuse time of a grenade?

For example, the US Army’s own field manual on the use of grenades and pyrotechnic signals states the fuse time tends to vary by as much as 2 whole seconds with, for example, the M67 grenade then having an estimated “3-5 second delay fuze”.

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