Why did the Soviets Put Grenades In Glass???

Why did the Soviets Put Grenades In Glass???

#soonyouknow #military #history

[Aoitori]

I wish we could report ai content for being ai content

[adam]

"In the future, facts will be randomly generated"

[johnjriggsarchery]

I hate it when I pour a glass of orange juice and it flys off my table and soars 200 meters.

[tiborpurzsas]

How does a drinking glass launch a grenade 200 meters just by breaking on contact? This makes no sense. What kind of physics at work here?

[charliedango]

"...but what if I tell you these were no ordinary tulips?"

[dakarmachameleon]

Ok so let’s clarify this the first photo seen is a mills bomb which is a British grenade and from what I read, that is where this trap originated from. They would often put them in glasses and wedge them between the top of doors so when they are opened the glass falls, breaks and the spoon flys off, and KABLAMO

[KjellIvarPaulsen]

an old trick. Also found in a NATO manual. Saw it in 1988
They were described to be used in urban warfare as a mine trap inside houses. For example over doors or hidden in clutter people had to pass. Use what you have available.

[TMPreRaff]

Are they claiming that the army can THROW these over 600 feet? I doubt it.

[matthendricks]

Cool. I put something into a glass and suddenly I can throw it twice as far as humanly possible. This is Russia. They also should put their tanks and jets into glasses to turn them stealth.

[kaveeshaanuhas]

Sri Lankan Air Force droped this grenades from small cargo air crafts to support ground troops in 1983 to 2009 Civil war.

[oliverlewis]

I used lightbulbs that shaped like tulips😢😮😊

[mikeb.]

Sounds like the glass is more about extending the time before the grenade explodes. The internal fuse isn't ignited until the glass breaks so the grenade can bounce a longer distance before exploding. You would have to throw the grenade down a steep incline for this to work.

[Thesupermachine]

I wouldn’t believe they were not ordinary tulips. They look ao real😢

[wen-dingoe]

Ah yes the hand granade is launched 200m by a whiskey glass

[karlmajerus]

Hate to tell ya this, but the U.S. did it first in Nam. We dropped them from choppers on the Cong. They fired on the choppers so we dropped the grenades in small jars.

[ghq]

Glass shatters, and that launches 🚀 the grenade into the air, and just how is that accomplished !! “ yeah, right”

[fgm]

And who the hell is able to throw a grenade in a glass 200 Meters?!? You wanna rethink that statement?

[Turbox]

Someone. "Accuracy?"
Russian: "blagh".

[JoshuaMixson]

How does having a grenade in a glass make it possible to throw it 4x’s further? Or how does a glass make the grenade fragments travel 4x’s further?

[Remnatis]

Ok from what i know, heres actually why, a grenade doesnt detonate when the pin is removed and actually when the metal hammer is removed, the glass is there to hold the hammer on the grenade so when the glass breaks or falls over the hammer falls off the grenade and the countdown starts