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Model 1943 is basically an offensive stickgrenade, made of thin aluminium.
A fragmentation sleeve could be placed over the head to turn it into a defensive fragmentation grenade.
Bodies of these grenades can be screwed onto eachother to increase the blast or to transform it to a stretched charge. Also a big charge was available and fitted over a normal grenade.
The pull-friction fuze was placed within the stick.
The 1943 model was painted grey and had a yellow band over the side.

Weight : 600gram.
Filling : 380gram trotyl
Packed in crates with 9 or 27 grenades.


Photos © Werner. The wooden stick below © Cory.





Photo © Felix.



The fragmentation sleeves :



The BIG charge :




Shown on the left is another photo from Werner. The two stickforms used on the HG 43.

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Somewhere around 1980, there was an attempt to alter the stick, as you can see on the photo right and below.
I have no info on this.





Free for you to download: the swiss manuals in which these are described.