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Stielhandgranate is the German term for "stick hand grenade" and generally refers to a prominent series of World War I and World War II–era German stick grenade designs, distinguished by their long wooden handles, pull cord arming and cylindrical warheads.
The grenade used the same fuse assembly (the BZE 39) as the Model 43 Stielhandgranate ("Stick Grenade"), which was screwed into the top of the sheet-metal body. To activate, the dome-shaped cap was unscrewed and pulled with a coiled pull-cord that is pulled before throwing. The color of the cap indicated the burning time of the type of fuze ...
From there, two sub-groups were developed: friction-ignitors where a cord is pulled or a cap is twisted to ignite the delay-fuze like on the German Stielhandgranate; the other being strike-or percussion-ignitors where the user either hit the cap before the throw like on the Japanese Type 10 grenade, or have a spring-loaded striker hit the cap ...
The Stielgranate 41 (German: "stick grenade"; model 1941) was a German shaped charge, fin-stabilized shell, used with the 3.7 cm Pak 36 anti-tank gun to give it better anti-tank performance.
A chance discovery led officials in northern England to uncover well over 100 unexploded practice bombs from World War II buried underneath a children's playground.
The Model 17 Eierhandgranate (German for "egg hand grenade") is a small defensive and offensive hand grenade which was used by Germany during World War I.The average soldier could throw it 40 meters or further.
A 51 mm (2 in) booster charge made up of compressed TNT pellets is located in the center of a tube of picric acid pellets. The complete projectile weighs 90 kg (198 lb 7 oz) and is filled with 54 kg (119 lb) of amatol .
The Jacksonville Naval Air Station is located on a peninsula with the St. John’s River to the west and the Ortega River to the east. The base’s 1,300 acres also include a variety of wetlands ...