Has anyone ever seen a MK3A2 grenade?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Has anyone ever seen a MK3A2 grenade?

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:14:00 PM EDT

When I was in the Marines I saw frags, smokes, CS, flashbangs, and even the rare incendiary. I always heard about the "offensive" MK3A2 concussion grenade but never saw one or heard about it being issued.

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:25:45 PM EDT

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I've seen all you have, plus thermite. Never seen a MK3A2, but heard about it.

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:28:19 PM EDT

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I've seen them; or a close variant. Never used them, but worked for some guys that used them.

They used them to initiate call outs... would blow out every piece of glass in the compound.

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:31:21 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/18/2014 9:37:10 PM EDT

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So, it's a big hand grenade?

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:39:01 PM EDT

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Concussion grenade. Blast Over-Pressure.

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:43:43 PM EDT

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Overseas, yes. Stateside, no. It is NOT a flashbang.

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:47:35 PM EDT

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sounds like it would be awesome to set up on a trip line to let you know someone was coming... maybe in an area where you might not want to kill everything that may venture down a path.

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:48:25 PM EDT

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Much smaller kill radius, depends on concussion, not fragmentation, can be used while assaulting, or for room clearing...thus "offensive" as opposed to defensive or frag types.

Technically the German M24 "Potato Masher" was an offensive grenade....although it did have a sheet metal canister which would fragment, it depended more on the concussion effect. They actually had frag sleeves that slipped over the head to enhance the frag capability. I actually have an M24 (inert) with a frag sleeve, "SS" Pattern, which is a smooth sleeve...but the reality is, both the SS and Heer used it...

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:50:42 PM EDT

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uh no

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:52:23 PM EDT

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There are trip flares for that.

Posted: 12/18/2014 9:57:17 PM EDT

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I threw 100 of them in one day during an experiment. It wasn't fun. Nose bleeds and a headache all fucking night afterward. M67s and the new replacement for the M67 were more fun.

Posted: 12/18/2014 10:33:36 PM EDT

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M67 replacement? Tell us more....

Posted: 12/18/2014 10:43:51 PM EDT

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Why is it military grammar is more suited to GD than proper English?

Posted: 12/19/2014 7:06:42 PM EDT

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LOL That's called a concussion, numbnuts! Do you still have headaches and such? You may have TBI.

Posted: 12/19/2014 7:26:57 PM EDT

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Yup, and they are NASTY in an enclosed area, say a Hardened Aircraft Shelter...excellent for assault teams, bad for the receivers.

There was a Female AF cop killed by one during a force on force exercise in Guam in the early 1990's...It was mistaken for a GBS and was thrown into her DFP. Traumatic amputation of her leg, she bled out.

Posted: 12/19/2014 8:18:35 PM EDT

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Seen them, handled them. Used the other ones

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Posted: 12/19/2014 8:26:37 PM EDT

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There are trip flares for that.

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sounds like it would be awesome to set up on a trip line to let you know someone was coming... maybe in an area where you might not want to kill everything that may venture down a path.

There are trip flares for that.

or claymores....

Posted: 12/19/2014 8:30:48 PM EDT

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or claymores....

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sounds like it would be awesome to set up on a trip line to let you know someone was coming... maybe in an area where you might not want to kill everything that may venture down a path.

There are trip flares for that.

or claymores....

If you have the know how to improvise. Otherwise the m57 firing device is nothing more than a remote trigger for command detonation.

Posted: 12/19/2014 9:03:15 PM EDT

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sounds like it would be awesome to set up on a trip line to let you know someone was coming... maybe in an area where you might not want to kill everything that may venture down a path.

There are trip flares for that.

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No , Claymore. You want to play, lets go.

Posted: 12/19/2014 9:14:31 PM EDT

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Ok, I was at a place where we were training with grenades. Set the woods on fire, put it out by more grenades to snuff it out. There is more to the story.

Posted: 12/19/2014 9:17:22 PM EDT

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I've never seen one of those before, but we found out real fast the the timed fuze on the christmas ornament looking CS grenades is REALLY SHORT.

Posted: 12/19/2014 9:18:31 PM EDT

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LOL That's called a concussion, numbnuts! Do you still have headaches and such? You may have TBI.

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I threw 100 of them in one day during an experiment. It wasn't fun. Nose bleeds and a headache all fucking night afterward. M67s and the new replacement for the M67 were more fun.

LOL That's called a concussion, numbnuts! Do you still have headaches and such? You may have TBI.

I'm aware. I wouldn't have been there if I had a choice. And yes, I do have TBI. 500 grenades over a two week span will do that to a person.

Posted: 12/19/2014 9:19:04 PM EDT

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Overseas, yes. Stateside, no. It is NOT a flashbang.

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There is both a Flash and a Bang... So um...

Posted: 12/19/2014 9:27:27 PM EDT

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No frag, lots of explosive.

Posted: 12/19/2014 9:36:45 PM EDT

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M67 replacement? Tell us more....

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I threw 100 of them in one day during an experiment. It wasn't fun. Nose bleeds and a headache all fucking night afterward. M67s and the new replacement for the M67 were more fun.

M67 replacement? Tell us more....

It didn't have a nomenclature yet when we tested them, no idea if they do now or not. It was basically a larger flashbang with a screw on metal sleeve. Throw the grenade without the sleeve and it was a less-lethal concussion grenade. Throw it with the sleeve installed and it became a frag grenade, the sleeve is segmented for better frag dispersion.

This model and two improved versions of the M67 were tested against the standard M67 and the standard concussion grenade. The two versions of the M67 were textured. They had a grippy sandpaperish coating to give better grip when thrown. One was completely covered in the texture, the other had just a small band of it.

The experiment was to determine the optimum grenade type for throwing distance and accuracy. 9 of us threw 100 of each grenade type for a total of 500 per person over a two week period. It fucking sucked.

One of these days I'm going to start a thread about some of the stuff my unit tested. LSAT machine gun, hybrid thermal/IR NVGs, Ares machine gun, quad copter UAVs, boston dynamics 4-legged robot, automated turret sentry gun with a 240 mounted on it. Some pretty cool stuff

Posted: 12/20/2014 1:09:53 PM EDT

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I'm aware. I wouldn't have been there if I had a choice. And yes, I do have TBI. 500 grenades over a two week span will do that to a person.

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I threw 100 of them in one day during an experiment. It wasn't fun. Nose bleeds and a headache all fucking night afterward. M67s and the new replacement for the M67 were more fun.

LOL That's called a concussion, numbnuts! Do you still have headaches and such? You may have TBI.

I'm aware. I wouldn't have been there if I had a choice. And yes, I do have TBI. 500 grenades over a two week span will do that to a person.

Yea...I was A-gunner for 97 AT4 launches in one afternoon. I think ure supposed to be limited to 5 a day. By the end of the day everything would go black for a second every time they launched. No ill effects though :).

Posted: 12/20/2014 1:12:31 PM EDT

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Those are badass.

Posted: 12/20/2014 1:18:00 PM EDT

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I want a crate of them. They sound like they'd fuck someones day up real quick.

Posted: 12/20/2014 1:29:06 PM EDT

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The fiber bodies of these offensive grenades are so fragile that in my experience they usually break open if they land on anything harder than loose sand causing them to low order and scatter the crushed main charge.

Posted: 12/20/2014 1:52:53 PM EDT

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Seen a few over the years.

Posted: 12/20/2014 2:02:27 PM EDT

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Yea...I was A-gunner for 97 AT4 launches in one afternoon. I think ure supposed to be limited to 5 a day. By the end of the day everything would go black for a second every time they launched. No ill effects though :).

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I threw 100 of them in one day during an experiment. It wasn't fun. Nose bleeds and a headache all fucking night afterward. M67s and the new replacement for the M67 were more fun.

LOL That's called a concussion, numbnuts! Do you still have headaches and such? You may have TBI.

I'm aware. I wouldn't have been there if I had a choice. And yes, I do have TBI. 500 grenades over a two week span will do that to a person.

Yea...I was A-gunner for 97 AT4 launches in one afternoon. I think ure supposed to be limited to 5 a day. By the end of the day everything would go black for a second every time they launched. No ill effects though :).

Man, I hope you and PG got VA rated for that...