is there some reason it can't simply do both and the hell with the switch???
Posted on 09/21/2016 11:47:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are working on the first new lethal hand grenade in more than 40 years, which is designed to give greater flexibility to the warfighter.
The multi-purpose hand grenade design will provide both fragmentation and blast overpressure more effectively and safely than its legacy counterparts. Once fielded, Soldiers will be able to select and use a hand grenade with different effects simply by flipping a switch.
(Excerpt) Read more at ardec.army.mil ...
We need a grenade that can be thrown outside the blast radius of females, homosexuals, and transgendered.
No video? Blech!
Greaaaat. A safer hand grenade.
1. "Switchable between concussion and fragmenting" - in other words, somehow in the heat of combat, our fighters are supposed to look down at the grenade, turn a selector and throw - hoping he(she/it) didn't turn it the wrong way. Since a good portion of grenade use comes at night, does it have a little light to show the selector?
2."Electronic fuzing and out-of-line detonation train". More stuff to go wrong in a historically dead-nuts-simple murder weapon. Battery life?
3."Using Insensitive explosives". Swell, another thing that will add to the likelihood of the thing dudding on us but will make the Project Managers at Picatinny check off another block in their politically-sensitive check list. Since when have we had problems with the sympathetic detonation of grenades?
Another example of how the Army at Picatinny is using their inbred no-military-experience-at-all civilian engineers to add cost, complexity, and added failure nodes to war's simplest and most effective weapons.
That just struck me as odd.
is there some reason it can't simply do both and the hell with the switch???
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