All Types of Grenades Explained
In this video we talk about all types of grenades, how they work, what they do, and what could happen when they explode.
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00:00 All Types of Grenades
00:39 Offensive vs Defensive Grenades
02:39 Fragmentation Grenades
03:44 High Explosives Grenades
04:14 Flashbang Grenades
05:00 How Iranian Embassy Burnt Accidentally
05:50 Anti-Tank Grenades
07:04 Thermite Grenades
07:56 Smoke Grenades
Flashbangs dont just blind and deafen you, the bang is so loud, it will also temporarily mess up liquid in inner ear causin you to loose balance. Combination of these 3 factors is very effective.
If my Daughter keeps insisting in disregarding the alarm clock, I will try one of these. 💣 😂
@@duartesimoes508 uh I think that is a fantastic idea
Lose*
@@duartesimoes508 That might be abit of a overkill don't you think?
@@notwofie don't worry, I don't have such a grenade... but it is indeed extremely galling hearing her iPhone for more than fifteen minutes without a reaction... actually it wakes _me_ up!
The medical team, and everyone that was able to keep Kyle Carpenter alive should receive an award or recognition of some kind
I don’t think so. They would tell you they were just doing their job. ( source. Grandfather was a mash surgeon in Korea).
They should, but they probably won't because a lot of military medical personnel (barring medics/corpsmen with line units like infantry) do try to maintain the disposition of the quiet professional. "All I did was my job".
That award from Obama was awkward... Even a politician must find it hard to keep the focus on the heroism while putting a medal on a one eyed, one lung boy with a plastic face.
@@sabbracadabra8367 All of those permanent reminders of his heroism
@@tappajaav I'm sure that will help him through many sleepless, lungless nights.
Fun fact about the Russian soldier at 3:40, he was wounded but survived and made a full recovery, and even did an interview about his actions from the hospital bed. That grenade was not the only one he threw away from himself that day. Edit: Too long ago that I don't remember if his hospital bed video was as a POW or not
Found his name: “Alexei S.” of the 138th guards motorized brigade, but can’t seem to find anything about him surrendering anywhere?
in that video he threw 4 back and then ran
Badass👊❤️🔥
That drone operator was wasting so much grenades on one wounded soldier
A brave man!👍
That one Marine who jumped in front of the grenade to protect his fellow Marine, what a story. Glad he survived!
if a 1944 german soldier does something heroic and sacrifices himself to save his comrades... it still doesnt change the fact that he works for an evil country that does evil things. Pendos deserve nothing.
Glad he survived and sad how he was just a terrorist invading and doing the dirty work for soft hands politicians.
Soldiers have sacrificed themselves like this many times. Survival is rare.
Krazy!! As an ex-Royal Navy Special Forces Oaf I would have thrown my "fellow operative" onto the grenade & legged it like a long dog .......!
I wonder how many times they don’t survive?
The RPG explanation was extremely interesting to me. I didn’t know they had such a specific design.
Also, RPG doesn't stand for rocket propelled grenade. That's just a convenient backcronym for the actual name which in Russian means something like antitank grenade
we were all 11 at one time
@lucabaki reactive armour works better especially the 3rd generation one
Idk why he didn't mention frag rpg rounds
So u have no idea how Hesh round works. And what is shape charge..hmm
I always keep forgetting about thermite grenades, such an interesting design and use honestly. Excellent video again!
As a late gwot vet I can 100% say we didn't have any frags only smoke and incendiary. Too many assholes threw frags into flocks of sheep 🐑 creating more enemies so they just banned them in Iraq altogether except sf guys, they threw them in the test fire pit regularly.
In case you're wondering no do not hold a thermite grenade I've made that mistake it is not a good idea😢
@@vorelordjr9019 me throwing a thermite for them to stick on enemy in MW2019:
If you really want to pull a great prank. Get a termite grenade, some instant crazy strong glue, and shove it down someone's pants! Haha it is such great fun watching them squirm. Just be careful of the fumes thats all. Don't want to get cancer!
@@dianapennepacker6854and these funny people who wear black and blue would spawn out of nowhere and play chase with you!
Grenades are ,,bombastic"
Pin and heart this guy’s comment, it is GREAT
Yas
"Super fantastic"
Mr. Boombastic🎙️🎧
“I need more grenades!”
"How the british SAS burned down the Iranian embassy with a grenade... ... ... ...by mistake." That pause really made it funny! :-D
Was a Ammunition specialist in the Army. Spent one summer getting rid of law rockets and countless Grenades. EOD was not available. I spent 2 weeks shooting law rockets. And another 2 weeks doing old grenades. Was pretty fun…..
@@ugh55 How brainwashed are you??? We've spent more on Ukraine in the past year than the actual entirety of the war in Afghanistan that went on for decades... Not only is this not our fight, not only are we already in an economic depression, not only are we helping prolong a pointless fight. We are proxy aggressors pushing the buttons of WWIII. We could have housed, fed and given a brand new car to every person in OUR COUNTRY with that money. Use your brain.
I am jealous beyond compare.
It was Fun but Dangerous... Every nade you pulled the pin was a Gamble... Old stuff tends to malfunction
One type of grenade that was forgotten is the rifle grenade which, in its original form, was attached to and fired from the barrel of a rifle. Modern rifle grenades are fired from dedicated launchers that are slung under the barrel of rifles. He also forgot about stand alone grenade launchers the old M70 "bloop gun" and the Mk. 19 full automatic grenade launcher, and the Milkor grenade launcher used by the US Marine Corps.
And the M32!
Also the Chinese have an Automatic Grenade Launcher
The video also seems to think that RPGs only fire anti-tank rounds but they also fire dedicated HE/AP rounds as well.
This video isn't about grenade launchers, but grenades. He just brought up the RPG-7 in order to clarify how they're different and because such anti-tank rockets largely replaced the use of anti-tank hand grenades.
@@xadrikxaulxuthe Russians have them as well, the AGS series launchers are full auto. Most modern is the AGS-30. It weights about 20 kg.
just a quick comment about Kyle Carpenter: he attended my same university (Uuniversity of South Carolina), and we celebrated him several times at our football stadium on gameday throughout my time there as a student. It was amazing to be a part of, God bless him!
I encountered one in Vietnam where it took 2 of us to pull the pin out as I wasn't able to move it on my own. I saw another coming at me and dropped down behind sandbags to have it go off inches from my left ear. Even though I was safe behind the sandbags, my hearing has been terribly affected since that day in 1969. Those things are so loud!
Dang, I didn't know grandpas existed on KZhead. But still it's a dang crazy thing that happened Also was it about a flashbanf?
Ha! Not only that, but I’m a Great Grandpa, you cheeky bugger! No it was a fragmentation grenade.
@@diggerrob6356 oh zamn
@@sultanarajia3689 YEE
@@diggerrob6356 Sorry for the super late comment, but I noticed your username is digger. Are you an Australian?
1:41 "the man should not be alive today" "GET HIM!"
Can't wait to see the plasma grenade from Halo explored.
Or a Singularity grenade from Borderlands 2 and also used in a show I saw. Can't remember the name of it though.
@@DChrls Wasn't that in one of the Star Trek movies where it swallowed up a whole planet?
What about "Hush-a-boom," the silent explosive? (OK it was on Rocky & Bullwinkle, but an interesting, if impossible idea).
The flashbangs ones are a real showstopper. Absolutely harmless and a great party prop, yesterday i threw one in a room full of kids and they all started doing the worm dance
Lol, that is messed up but funny in a messed up way, hopefully this is a joke
Where did you get a legit flashbang?
@@ryanpayne7707 He didn't, there's no penalty for lying in a youtube comment
0:22 Cave Johnson used combustible lemons! It was super effective!
at 4:43 That clip is actually from where I live, Evansville Indiana. Funny thing is, that was the swat team conducting a house raid, but it turned out to be the WRONG HOUSE! They flashbanged a child in the process, I believe it turned out to be the neighbors to the house they were actually trying to raid. EPD's finest! 😂
Damn 😮
Crazy 😮
Fun fact - the fuses used in ww2 greatness generally had longer time from activation to detonation. So throwing them back would be more likely- some are still used in modern wars like Ukraine (look out for yellow frag grenades, a relic of early ww2, also used in Ukraine)
CHU
0:50 Ah yes, the Holy Hand Grenade.
"Of Antioch!"
The drone dropped grande in the video was not a timer triggered grenade but a impact acivated one. So he had all of the time in den day to trow it away.
Dang he got really lucky, but i think I remember this was the summer of last year so now he is either captured, dead, or out of service
@@wirb3859 another comment mentioned he was injured and taken captive
@@wirb3859what do you mean Russia is slaughtering ukraine.
@@chesterhiggenswhat are you even on about
@@chesterhiggens"say the line vatnic".
Fun fact: Helen Keller was completely immune to flashbang grenades.
How
@@AbdulRahman-bi1nushe was deaf and blind 😂
What about the effect of concussion?
@@scottgalbraith7461 she's built different.
@@killgaet6253 she still breathes with lungs.
Kyle Carpenter's interview on David Lettermen in 2014 was truly inspiring. He is a fucking GOAT.
Glad he survived and sad how he was just a terrorist invading and doing the dirty work for soft hands politicians.
🙄🙄
Another awesome video thanks. I've been learning about grenades since I was a kid. Your video taught me several things I'd never heard about grenades before. Great job.
I remember watching the SAS raid on the Iranian Embassy on TV. It happened during a live broadcast during the evening and was a big deal. Margret Thatcher gave the order. Two years later the Argentine junta had forgotten this and foolishly thought they could invade the Falkland Islands and Thatcher wouldn’t bother to do anything about it.
Wasn't Falklands island originally Argentine territory? Wasn't The Junta supported by CIA ? Wasn't the UK back than more powerful than now ? Wasn't Argentina a very poor and backward country ? Does a ant last against an Anteater ?
Oh, they thought she'd bother, they just didn't she'd had much she *could* do about it with the Royal navy a hollow shell of its former self.
There's no comparison to be made between an active hostage situation in the capital with 26 hostages in an embassy, to the territory of a far away island with pretty much nothing on it. How would the no brainer of acting in the first situation ever affect an assessment in the latter?
I watched it live on the BBC and I remember the Falklands war well. Thatcher’s Britain was not much fun to live in due to tax and her government killing the coal industry but in hindsight she certainly took no shit. We could probably do with someone similar again.
@@markedis5902 Like dear ol' Boris? ;)
Grenades are very interesting. Got to throw a couple live frags in training and that was really exciting. The blasts are shockingly powerful - incredibly loud that you feel them in your chest even from a hundred yards away. Been fairly close to flashbangs too, and experienced CS gas grenades in an enclosed space. Seen an incendiary melt through an armored vehicle in a demonstration, those are scary. M14 TH3 grenades burn over 4000 degrees F
Saw*
@@castleanthrax1833 boo hoo ain’t got no memo bout dis bein a grammar test
@@TheLastArbiter If you want to sound like an uneducated drop-out whilst trying to make an informed comment, that's your choice.
@@castleanthrax1833what a crybaby
Used to stand on the Wood steps at the Infantry Centre the Grenade range was about 1km away you could feel the vibration in the steps. The old M26 only had 5oz of Comp N.
I'm going to sleep early today Also me:
04:05 The German DM51 would be an example of a multipurpose hand grenade. You can use it with the sleeve for fragmentation effect or as an offensive hand grenade without the sleeve. Germany sent 100.000 of them to Ukraine in 2022.
Were those WW1 Grenades sended to Ukraine?😢
@@rajatdani619 No, modern hand grenades produced around 2004-2005.
@@rajatdani619You're thinking of the Stielhandgranate
Those sleeves are pretty common. I own a deact of an offensive grenade with a coil sleeve, manufactured in Portugal in the sixties. In this model the coil cannot be removed anymore.
This video really blew my mind
Very clear information. Thanks!
Such an essential topic but at last we got a comprehensive video.
You misunderstood the breaking bad part. Walter didn't claim the German gun was destroyed by thermite. He said thermite could open up a vault that the Gustav couldn't penetrate.
Looks like you misunderstood it.
Looks like he also misunderstood it though. Walt didn't say thermite DID destroy it, he said it could. Because Jesse doubted the effectiveness. The Gustav was the biggest gun in the world though and Walt was a genius and Vince likes to keep things realistic. He absolutely never suggested the Gustav couldn't penetrate the locks they were going to burn through.
@@godwarrior3403 it indeed looks like we misunderstood it. Walt was talking about a hypothetical situation. Oh well ...
I talked with a man that served in Korea as an Army Rifleman he said the Chinese had what seemed like unlimited Grenades, every Chinese Soldier carried 5 or 6 or more Grenades, and they could throw them like baseballs, he explained to me that some Chinese Soldiers only carried grenades, and they were the best at heaving grenades, he said they lost several men in his platoon to Grenades...and some times it seemed like it was raining grenades...!
At last some good video on the subject. 👍🏻
So many details! Great video.
Theres actually a video out there someone i see a while ago of a Ukrainian holding a final defensive position against a load of Russians attacking his trench and he manages to throw back a few grenades that landed in his trench before obviously being over ran eventually.
The explosion of an m67 is very powerful. You can be 100 meters away behind an armored wall and it will still shake the ground around you
Looks like another myth 100 meters is pretty long distance
@@tawhid8125you know what else is long
There's a dirty minded among us
@@beendanako among us? sus?
Yes, ~ 7 ounces of Composition B. That means a *hefty* bang to those things!
Amazing work and Amazing Grenades 💣
Kyle Carpenter is a hell of a man and Marine!
Well done as always. Love your little jokes lol so well done thank you it’s definitely not what I thought
You know its a good day when Not what you think uploads
I believe that the video at 7:27 is the impact of depleted uranium 30mm rounds from an gau-8 avenger cannon. Not thermite
very good video as always
I didn't realize that all these explosives were considered a grenade. Thanks for the info.
Funnily enough today I've seen a video of a grande thorn by a Russian soldier, which bounced back form the tree he caught and threw it away for the 2nd time.
The grenade could have landed to the positions of his nearby personal but this guy was lucky to deflect it
I saw that video too. Dude was lucky he caught it.
Did we skip thermobaric grenades?
You forgot to cover plasma grenades. Nice video!
Another great video.
1:52 *The man thought he was Captain America*
Until the spoon is released which ignites the fuse, the grenade is still inactive and can be made safe again by reinserting the safety pin. The pin is a split pin (or cotter pin), whose ends are spread to make pulling hard. If a grenade was 'prepared' by straightening the split end, the ring can be pulled with the teeth. Once the spoon is released, Mr Grenade is no longer your friend...Fuses are made to burn for about 5 seconds (usually) to give the soldier time to duck or get clear--sometimes this gives the target time to throw it clear. To prevent this, sometimes soldiers will 'cook' a grenade by releasing the spoon and letting the fuse burn for a few seconds before throwing, and hope that the fuse isn't short...
Cooking is seriously discouraged. Once that spoon pings you yeet that thing as far away from yourself as possible. You don't take unnecessary risks with something manufactured by the lowest bidder!
@@the_once-and-future_king. Absolutely! Even though the 'lowest bid' still has to meet spec, all it takes is one...
@petesheppard1709 Yep. All it takes is Minimum Wage Walter to be having a bad day and...
@@the_once-and-future_king. Used to do it. In the late 80s they still taught it for bunker attack in the US army
In an intense situation I wouldn't rely on my perception of time and give myself "2 or 3" seconds, I would just chuck it
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for the information, now i can be confident when playing Tarkov on Factory
What about thermobaric grenades?
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 💣 Grenades come in various types for both offensive and defensive purposes, and they don't always create massive explosions like in movies. 00:56 🪖 Offensive grenades can be thrown farther than their kill radius and are used by assaulting troops, while most fragmentation grenades are defensive and release fragments upon detonation. 02:00 🏅 Corporal William Kyle Carpenter's heroic act of shielding a fellow Marine from a grenade blast earned him the Medal of Honor, despite severe injuries and numerous surgeries. 03:28 🧷 Pulling out a grenade pin with your teeth is nearly impossible due to the force required, and there's typically not enough time to throw back a grenade that has landed in front of you. 04:04 💥 Concussion grenades rely on shockwaves for damage and can be converted into fragmentation grenades, while stun grenades, like flashbangs, disorient enemies with light and sound. 05:06 🏢 A stun grenade used during a hostage situation accidentally caused a fire that severely damaged the Iranian Embassy in London during a rescue operation. 06:07 🦾 Modern anti-tank grenades use shaped charges to penetrate tank armor effectively, unlike traditional grenades. 07:09 🔥 Thermite grenades don't explode but burn at high temperatures, making them useful for destroying equipment or sabotaging the enemy's assets. 08:05 💨 Smoke grenades are used to mark areas, signal troops, or create smoke screens for concealment, and they no longer use White Phosphorus, which had more destructive properties. You are welcome
My favorite combination of grenades is 1 ball grenade, 1 stick grenade and 1 more ball grenade
Great Video Presentation.
Boom
Kaboom
@@fridaycaliforniaa236 Car boom in Baghdad.
3:50 Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig
I was just about to comment about that! Quite the crazy battle
Great channel great video
Excellent video! Thanks.
If cost is no consideration, it might be fun to throw grenades in a controlled environment. But, since that isn't a very realistic possibility for me, I'm okay with living a life without grenades. Still, it's an interesting topic.
You could always ask Uncle Sam! It's part of an 8 week course where you get to fire M4s, M249s and M240Bs. You also get physically fit too!
The US M67 actually costs about 4$ per grenade.
3:33 the Russian soldier seems more annoyed than scared by the grenade.
you can't throw back the grenade like movies random russian soldier : blyat ivan !!
You missed Molotov Cocktails. I’m sad now.
2:31 I can feel his eternal pain in his face. He probably still is in pain to this day. Would letting him live in constant pain would be just as cruel than letting him pass?
I'm sure he qualifies for the 'good stuff' when it comes to pain pills & he still has mobility & vision. Letting him die would have been a lot worse IMO. Anyway, they didn't take that option off the table, they just put the choice to live back in his hands, which seems like the right thing to do
Glad he survived and sad how he was just a terrorist invading and doing the dirty work for soft hands politicians.
The worst part is losing an eye IMHO, but has his limbs.
The timing variation for denotation for most common grenades like 4 to 7 seconds so if you lucky that the soldier throw the grenade threw it a short distance and it is 7 seconds to explode then you could throw it back.
your videos are great !
Wow, this video was hella interesting
It was exactly what I thought
honestly the more i know about military history the more docs and PJs blow my mind..
mark rober already explained how a Grenade works 🤓🤓
Great video...👍
Great to see the Beast of War reference at 1:20
The video of the Russian soldier tossing the grenade away from him is hilarious, almost as if he's thinking "Seriously? This shit again?"
Long time ago we have grenades against tanks but now what happened? No grenades against tanks.
me: hears white phosphors my mind: SPEC OPS THE LINE
... and they make an ideal Christmas gift !
The gurgling sound a person makes after absorbing the blast of a M67 fragmentation grenade is something that will never leave you.
I always get a kick out of the fact that the standard smoke grenades used by the US are the M83 white smoke grenade and M18 colored smoke grenade both of which date (in original form) to 1942. Sometimes what works just works.
3:35: Yeah I got a grenade landed on me *Casually yeets*
Excellent
RPG got to be the most resilient you keep firing till a tank gets blown
I like the question at the end.
Thanks ... you reminded me to hit Like!
Great video
Dude, very cool
In training we were told that some grenades were capable of shorter or longer delays depending it’s use by replacing the detonators with shorter/longer delays. Some within seconds from each other. I don’t remember the models. Over 50 years ago.
That's swell.
I think the GIs in Viet Nam left grenades around with no fuse delay as booby traps They would instantly detonate, as soon as the spoon flew.
Very funny at the end, good stuff.
ok, that was cool. at the end when he said "like button" my like button lit up.
That soldier has balls of steel
Glad he survived and sad how he was just a terrorist invading and doing the dirty work for soft hands politicians.
What about the Swedish jumping handgrenade, spränghandgranat 07?
To be fair, like a blank round, if a flashbang explodes right next to your face, it could kill. And it has happened before. Same with accidentally keeping it in your hand when it explodes; It will take your hand.
I like the V40. About the size of a golf ball, it's really cute: while it clears a room.
Thanks for the video. Now i know everything about grenades to blow up my neighbor's hou- ermmm i mean go to an airsoft battle
House clearance in Sangin Afghan....tape a red smoke grenade to a frag....pull the pin on the frag...and throw into house...bang sizzle!
If i remember correctly it was the breaching charges used that started the embassy fire. I might be mistaken 🤔
In the French language, they use the word "grenade" both for the fruit and for the weapon. Initially, the weapon looked like the fruit.
I would like to ask, who is the most powerful grenade in the world, both with fragments launched and explosive material carried
The scene of the beast of war , what a movie that was, no military movie would be like that
double tap skills are on point
the flash of the like button there was a nice touch