Projected Rifle Grenades

Question 1

What are the types of projected rifle grenades?

Answer 1

• frag
• HEAT
• ejection
• bursting smoke
• burning smoke
• riot control

Question 2

How can you ID a rifle grenade?

Answer 2

• will have a bullet trap or catch
• uses tail boom and fins for stabilization
• will not have flash hoes or a venturi
• use color
• may have adapter or screw on body onto a tail assembly

Question 3

How can you ID a fragmentation rifle grenade?

Answer 3

• shape of body will range from oblong to semi-spherical
• may look like a hand grenade on a tail boom with external fuse
• bullet trap not tapered like venturi

Question 4

What are the fragmentation rifle grenade fuses?

Answer 4

• point detonating (ID by the base arming clip in the front)
• base detonating (ID by the base arming clip/pin in the rear
• striker release

Question 5

What are the fragmentation rifle grenade safeties?

Answer 5

Projected->Rifle grenade->
PD and BD-HE, frag, move
striker release-HE, frag, move, C/S, 1 hr WT

Question 6

How can you ID HEAT rifle grenades?

Answer 6

• break or seam near the major diameter
• cylindrical with tapered ogive
• cap at the end of the ogive to house piezoelectric crystals
• bullet trap

Question 7

What are the HEAT rifle grenade fuses?

Answer 7

• point initiating base detonating

- base detonating

Question 8

What are the HEAT rifle grenade safeties?

Answer 8

Projected->rifle grenade->
PIBD-HE, frag, move, EMR, static, PE/lucky, jet
BD-HE, frag, move, jet

Question 9

How can you ID bursting smoke rifle grenades?

Answer 9

• key ID similar to HE rifle grenades
• body may be cylindrical with round nose
• may resemble smoke grenade, without vent holes in rear of body
• use color codes
• bullet trap
• can be WP hand grenade attached to a rifle grenade tail boom

Question 10

What are the bursting smoke rifle grenade safeties?

Answer 10

Projected->rifle grenade->
striker release-HE, frag, move, WP, fire, C/S, 1hr WT
BD-HE, frag, move, WP, fire

Question 11

How can you ID burning smoke/riot control rifle grenades?

Answer 11

• body may be cylindrical with round nose
• may have nose closing plug
• may resemble bursting smoke grenade, but will have vent holes at or near base of body
• bullet trap/catch
• can be smoke or riot control hand grenade attached to a rifle grenade boom

Question 12

What are the burning smoke/riot control rifle grenade fuses?

Answer 12

• striker release

- base detonating

Question 13

What are the burning smoke/riot control rifle grenade safeties?

Answer 13

Burning Smoke
Projected->rifle grenade->
striker release-HE, frag, move, fire, C/S, 1hr WT
BD-HE, frag, move, fire

Riot control
Projected->rifle grenade->
striker release-HE, frag, move, fire, C/S, 1hr WT, chem
BD-HE, frag, move, fire, chem

Question 14

How can you ID ejection rifle grenades?

Answer 14

• body may be cylindrical with a flat nose
• usually will have a break in the body for illumination composition to eject
• may have a nose-closing plug
• use color codes
• bullet trap

Question 15

What are the ejection rifle grenade fuses?

Answer 15

-base detonating

Question 16

What are the ejection rifle grenade safeties?

Answer 16

Projected->rifle grenade->

BD-HE, frag, move, ejection, fire, 1hr WT