Grenades were first used against armored vehicles during World War I, but it wasn't until World War II when more effective shaped charge anti-tank grenades were produced. AT grenades are unable to penetrate the armor of modern tanks, but may still damage lighter vehicles.
The only weapons that can damage the Tank are the Bazooka, Grenade Launcher, Grenade, and Mortar. Mines can also disable a tank and stop it from moving, but won't kill the tank on their own. In some levels, tanks can also be killed by the detonations from explosive barrels.
Can a hand grenade destroy a tank? No, it can't. Grenades are used against infantry and their explosive charge is far too small to cause any serious damage to a Main Battle Tank.
This type of weapon won't have much effect on a tank, even its tracks.
With a direct hit, the Grenade Launcher does 1000 damage to a Tank. If used in conjunction with a nearby propane tank or a gas can, the stumbled Tank will be placed at a distinct disadvantage whilst the player reloads.
Although a 40-mm grenade launched from an under-barrel grenade launcher cannot indeed kill a tank, the video demonstrates that the grenade did enough damage to the tank since it entered an open hatch and caused ammunition to detonate.
Grenades generally explode on the ground, creating a mushroom like blast that we usually see in movies. In space, it would become nearly a spherical blast, but the format will vary significantly with the grenade shape.
Water doesn't behave that way, though; in fact, it's nearly (but not completely) incompressible. In other words, the water won't absorb the pressure from the explosion—it'll move with it, until it hits an air pocket or two that it ??? compress.
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.
Such an act can be survivable: in World War II, U.S. Marine Jack Lucas, in the Battle of Iwo Jima, put his steel M1 helmet over two grenades and laid on top of it before the grenades exploded. Lucas lived, but spent the rest of his life with over 200 pieces of shrapnel in his body.
To ensure maximum destruction, grenades are designed to fire omnidirectionally to increase the killing radius. Throwing almost 2,000 metal shards hundreds of feet per second, grenades are designed to seriously maim or kill anyone in their path.
The fragments from a fragmentation grenade cannot penetrate a single layer of sandbags, a cinder block, or a brick building, but they can perforate wood frame and tin buildings if exploded close to their walls.
Generally yes, to some extent it depends on exactly what type of grenade but most have a striker that iniates a short length of delay fuse which in turn detonates the main charge. Usually the fuse assembly is at least resistant to water and thrown into water the grenade will explode.
The bazooka was the first weapon of its kind—that is, the first infantry weapon capable of reliably destroying a tank—and it inspired the German Panzerschreck and Panzerfaust.
1. NLAW stops tanks dead in their tracks. Weighing just 12.5 kilograms, NLAW is a portable, shoulder-launched system that can be used by a single operator. Its armour-piercing warhead can destroy a heavily protected modern battle tank with one shot, and the system is effective at ranges between 20 and 800 metres.
Even if the RPG hit does not completely disable the tank or kill the crew, it can still damage external equipment, lowering the tank's effectiveness or forcing the crew to abandon and destroy it.
It requires immeasurable bravery and selflessness to carry out an act for which death is all but guaranteed, but in several instances throughout history, exemplary service members have dived on grenades and survived the explosion.
“Hooah, Sarge.”
For safety reasons, attempting to reinsert a grenade's safety pin is discouraged by the U.S. military. Instructors also carefully educate recruits not to “milk” a grenade after removing the safety pin.
If you cut it in half and it is still able to detonate right next to you, you're dead. The force of the explosion will be decreased if only 1 half Detonates. If you cut it directly down the center then it won't detonate because the blasting cap will be compromised.
The grenade's metal body would reflect the radio waves back to the magnetron and screw it up. The grenade won't even be warmed…so, if you're trying to make a grenade more comfy to throw in the winter, this is not how.
What would happen if I tried to eat an active hand grenade? You'd die painfully… of asphyxiation. (That's not going to fit down your throat.) Even if it did, hand grenades will not detonate unless you remove the pin and release the spoon.
During WW2 my grandfather (mum's dad) was at Tobruk in a trench with some other soldiers when an Italian soldier lobbed a “Red Devil” grenade in. The grandfather threw it back out but it exploded as he was throwing it and he lost his arm just below the elbow.
The grenade temperature reached 300°F with an erratic flame temperature, which was probably caused by flame flicker.
For every grenade attack an average of 5.5 civilians are killed or injured. Grenades also cause flash burns, lacerations, dismemberment, internal injuries, damage to sensory organs, and injuries from fluctuations in pressure from the blast such as concussion and shock.