A few questions to any explosives specialists or people that otherwise have any experience with hand grenades.

  1. we have had a few incidents where low level gang members have been paid to throw hand grenades into people’s homes, supposedly through closed glass windows. How hard or easy is this? Is a hand grenade heavy enough - or has an appropriately sharp shape or the likes - to break the glass?
  2. if one was hit by one of these attacks and one miraculously notices the grenade landing on one’s floor, is there anything that could be done to minimize physical damage to one’s body? Would, say, a piece of furniture shield one from the shards?
  3. are the shards or the blast wave/pressure the more dangerous, or both?
  • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz
    25·
    21 hours ago

    first, don’t be there, then don’t be detected, then don’t be hit

    wall (brick or concrete, not cardboard) between you and grenade should stop fragments, anything less is heavily dependent on what kind of the thing it is and how lucky you are. ikea chair won’t save you, anything solid enough to be worth it would be so heavy that time spent moving it is just better spent moving away. if you live above ground floor, like on third floor or above, it’s likely that you’ll be fine because throwing grenades up is a really bad idea. grenades are round and roughly as heavy as rocks of similar size, perhaps you can get laminated glass windows that should crack but not let grenade through on impact

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      14·
      15 hours ago

      also don’t forget to hit the floor, feet facing the grenade - even behind cover. This limits the exposed cross section, and puts enough other matter between the grenade and your vital organs to reduce shrapnel lethality.

      Other matter being, you know, your feet and legs. Asscheeks if you’re caked up. And a few months of PT is preferable over dying.