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A cylindrical grenade visually identical to the M8, the M14 (also written AN/M14) is a purpose designed incendiary grenade. Working off the intense and violent reaction of the thermate filler, the result of the deployment of the M14 is molten iron. This means the M14 is primarily employed on material to be destroyed in a roughly secure ...
AN/M14 TH3 thermite grenade – Incendiary grenade used to destroy equipment and as a fire-starting device. [73] M15 and M34 smoke grenades – filled with white phosphorus, [25] which ignites on contact with air and creates thick white smoke. [73]
Thermate is a variation of thermite and is an incendiary pyrotechnic composition that can generate short bursts of very high temperatures focused on a small area for a short period of time. It is used primarily in incendiary grenades .
M26 fragmentation grenade and many subvariants [42]: 56–7 M59 and M67 fragmentation grenade [42]: 28 AN/M14 TH3 thermite grenade – Incendiary grenade used to destroy equipment and as a fire-starting device [42]: 56 M15 and M34 smoke grenades – filled with white phosphorus which ignites on contact with air and creates thick white smoke.
This is a list of weapons served individually by the United States armed forces.While the general understanding is that crew-served weapons require more than one person to operate them, there are important exceptions in the case for both squad automatic weapons (SAW) and sniper rifles.
The US military has also used thermite in grenades, with the US Army’s Pine Bluff Arsenal producing the weapons from the 1960s through 2014 and then resuming production again in 2023.
A thermite mixture using iron(III) oxide. Thermite (/ ˈ θ ɜːr m aɪ t /) [1] is a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder and metal oxide. When ignited by heat or chemical reaction, thermite undergoes an exothermic reduction-oxidation (redox) reaction. Most varieties are not explosive, but can create brief bursts of heat and high ...
A marine preparing to fire an M31 from an M1 rifle An M31 HEAT rifle grenade fitted to an M14 rifle. The M31 HEAT is a fin-stabilized anti-tank rifle grenade designed in the late 1950s to replace the Belgian ENERGA rifle grenade which was adopted by the US Army and US Marines as an emergency stop-gap measure during the Korean War.