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?
  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    No, my solution would be to vacate the area post haste. I was just referring to meco03211’s posting in which he wrote

    If you took the explosive out of a grenade, put it in a metal pot with the lid welded on, and detonated, you’d just have a mangled pot.

    Given your theory that the type of explosive used makes all the difference, I would definitely watch a Mythbusters episode about that (if there was one). 😉