This "Ball" type grenade was made of cast iron with a threaded hole to fit a brass fuze. It superseded the older model with the wooden fuze, like the early French grenades. The thrower would carry a rope around it's wrist with a pull-hook on the end of it. The hook was attached to the fuze and when it was thrown, it would take about a meter before it was lit.
Diameter : 72,7mm Weight : 1.065kg, including 50gram Nitroglycerine gunpowder.
Used by the Dutch-East-Indies Army only (KNIL). |
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