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unusual facts about Fragmentation grenade


José Bozzano

The dockyards produced more than 300,000 hand grenades, the famous carumbe `i (Guaraní for "little turtle"), which, for the pride of Paraguayans in the war, proved more effective than the Belgian designed SIP grenades, used by the Bolivian army) and built and assembled the coachworks of 2,308 trucks (at a rate of five per hour).



see also

Frag

Fragging, assassination of an unpopular member of one's own fighting unit, occasionally using a fragmentation grenade

V40

V40 Mini-Grenade, a 1960s fragmentation grenade was manufactured in the Netherlands