Monday, March 16, 2015

Army Testing Stackable Grenades for Infantry

Way cool!

Army Testing Stackable Grenades for Infantry. 
U.S. Army testers recently evaluated a new type of hand grenade that allows soldiers to connect up to three sections of explosive for a more powerful blast.
The Scalable Offensive Hand Grenade offers conventional soldiers a new capability. Unlike the standard fragmentation grenade, this design offers mainly a blast effect that can be doubled or tripled to suit the job. It has also been fielded to U.S. Special Operations Command since 2010.
Army officials tested it during a recent live-fire portion of the service’s annual Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment at the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Ga.

Read more: http://kitup.military.com/2015/02/army-testing-stackable-grenades.html#ixzz3UUTnL5TT 

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