A grenade is a small bomb thrown by hand or launched mechanically. The grenade works by, removing the pin then nothing is holding the spring loader stick up. The spring through the striker down against the percussion cup. The the small sparks ignite a slow burning material in the fuse you have 4 seconds to throw it.
The Impact and Consequences of Grenades
The overall impact of grenades, proved to be effective weapons in the trenches. But when the forces arrived their numbers and capabilities were inadequate. Hand grenades were being used and improved throughout the war, each side trying to make better weapons. The overall impact of a grenade was that there was so many people trying to get grenades so they were fighting over them.
How did the grenade affect the front lines of europe
It effect them because if you are on the front lines and a grenade comes you won't have time to run so you will get blow up by the grenade.
how did the grenade affect the leaders of the warning nation and the desions they madeit affect them by because people were doing bombing and that could affect them
how did the grenade affect the civilians near the front lines of europeit affect them by because there were a lot of them there and they could have there family there and they were throwing grenades and they could have got blowing up by them
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postives and negatives of using a grenadepostive; blow through something, running for cover,
negtives; can blow your self up, can blow your soliders up if there in the wrong spot |
Connections to today
A rpg (rocket propelled grenade) is the modern day hand grenade. They have improved because they are more safe, soldiers can defuse the grenades when they want to, they have different and better material in them. Hand grenades remain in use today by soldiers around the world. Militaries define hand grenades as any anti-personnel device that explodes on release. Over the years, the U.S. military has used a variety of different hand grenades. The M67 is the current fragmentation or "frag" grenade used by American and Canadian soldiers.
By: Daevon Anderson