Lmao
XD even

>>63886582 (OP)
But you can throw them further. I also think it would be amazing to just hit someone in the head with it until it explodes. Provided we're doing a heroic last stand of course.

>>63886582 (OP)
The design itself is fine, the issue was having them built by slave labor that knew they were going to be killed after the war was over, and as such, had no incentive to maintain any kind of quality control standards.

>>63886603
>t.

>>63887381
They were a propaganda icon in WW2, Germany produced and used WAY more 'egg' type hand grenades than the potato masher ones.

They were pretty good in trench fights, and I guess in a WW1 context the complexity of constructing them with that hollow wood grip and the cloth loop thingy you put around your wrist so it automatically pulls the pin when you throw was deemed worth it.

>>63886582 (OP)
>Mk2 fill weight: 1.85oz
>M24 fill weight: 6oz
I read allied troops, at least American, loved finding these things for the same reason they loved finding panzerschrecks, more dakka.

>>63887455
With comparatively little fragmentation as the downside

>>63886582 (OP)
Stick grenades always seemed to me like they'd be easier to throw. Although I imagine they cost more to produce, and you couldn't carry as many as a pineapple grenade.

>seemed to me like they'd be easier to throw
>A stick grenade seems like it would be easier to throw than a grenade shaped like a baseball
What

>>63887500
that was intentional for "offensive grenades", but the did have frag sleeves you could put on them.
plus they were "modular" so you could bind several of the heads around one stick and the timer on them could be easily adjusted, even be set to go off instant for trap and leaving them behind for the enemy to try and use. they were ahead of their time in alot of ways.

the biggest down side I see is the size compared to allied grenades.

>>63887613
Simple physics; the handle acts as a lever.

>>63887894
>the biggest down side I see is the size compared to allied grenades.
big indeed, it was more than double the weight of a regular-size grenade in addition to the long stick protruding
you generally could only carry a single one of them at a time

>>63887613
It's always strange when someone wanders into a thread and demonstrates they're unaware of one of the most universally understood tidbits of WWII trivia

>>63887613
Which goes further, a baseball or a javelin?

>>63887613
Yeah, they're easier to throw for the Germans, because the Germans were more familiar with axe-throwing than baseball.

>>63887381
You can easily incentivize slave labor to maintain quality standards by killing every laborer gruesomely and publicly who fucks up.

>>63889743
>you are decreasing amount of workforce available
>remaining numbers are now aware that they have absolutely nothing to loose
Your ability for long-term planning are somehow... lacking, Hans

>>63886582 (OP)

>squadmate tries to throw grenade with this
>fucks it up and it tumbles to the ground next to you
your response?

>>63889827
:(

>>63889059
if I hit the baseball with a bat then the baseball by 100s of feet

>>63886582 (OP)
China made them until 1990s and you could still find them used in Burma and India

Wasn't the issue that they had an impact fuse, rather than a reliable manually triggered fuse?

>>63892565
no

>>63890507
IIRC the Soviets had a plastic 'stick' that could be attached to their standard types of frag grenades, and they also made a stick greande that was used into the 1980s.

>>63887500
fragmentation means jack shit in a closed bunker or room.

>>63893099
Ok and what if you're not in a closed bunker or room

>>63889827
>not even mad

>>63886582 (OP)
The Vietnamese and the chinese also used potato mashers they domestically produced
Pineapple grenadines and round grenadines slip all the time, a main reason stick grenadines are used so pheasants dont kill themselves

>>63893126
Then you get shot at.

sovl
you have no taste

>>63893809
>pheasants
fucking birds with their stick grenades

>>63889827

>>63889827
ok but where's the grenade?

>>63887381
>built by slave labor that knew they were going to be killed after the war was over
Anon, learn some basic history. That's not true, they didn't believe that, most had nothing to do with "slave labour," using captured people as workers was nornal everywhere and the vast majority of forced labour wasn't jewish.
And no, slavs weren't getting genocided either, the American library of Congress has letters between Hitler and Himmler where both go through their options in the east and mention but immediately reject it, even Himmler calls the idea both practically impossible and morally "wholly bolshevik."

>>63887436
>Germany produced and used WAY more 'egg' type hand grenades than the potato masher ones.
No, the numbers were about equal, leaning more towards them in the early and less in the late war because they're more useful for offense than defense.
>the cloth loop thingy you put around your wrist so it automatically pulls the pin when you throw
The string was pulled before you threw.

Sometimes I feels like people just post hereto make shit up. I'm gonna close this thread before I see more idiocy. Kill yourselves.

>>63894334
>labour
Gay communist spelling
Opinion disregard
Crawl back to your breadline, comrade

>>63894149
It is so they can carry them with their beaks

>>63889827
I beat his bitch ass for bringing a fucking pasta strainer to the front.