Enhanced hand grenade
 

That looks like a good solution for a non existing problem. I'll bet that it's going to get mishandled under stress.

It's cost effective all right. If you don't count human life in the cost.

Electronic.

It was interesting to learn that current hand grenades are not ambidextrous.

Let me think- battery and electronics in a hand grenade?
No thanks.

Agree.

Exactly. There are a LOT of things that shouldn't have electronics, much less batteries in them - I'd think a hand grenade would be near the top of the list!

Our government dollars at foolish work!

The military stockpiles munitions a grenade made and stored 10 or 20 years ago will when the mechanical fuse is set in motion go BOOM! Can the same be said for this new electronic fuse? Sometimes re-enventing the wheel can leave you flat.

Some standard munitions, like grenades, and even ammo have a defined "shelf life."
Some of it does become unreliable with age and storage.

I remember receiving notices to sort through our stored goodies and picking certain things by lot number and blowing them up.
LAWs did not stand up to the climate for one example.
We'd blow them after they had been dragged around awhile.

Golly, first the feds take the lead out of gasoline and now they are taking the asbestos out of hand grenades. I mean really what is next?! A kinder, eco friendly explosive? :thumbsup:

And no wifi...

One EMP and Poof! No hand grenades.

Another "solution" in search of a problem.

All this talk about frag grenades reminds me of the time during my military days when, one day, we got an anonymous call that someone had taken a grenade out of a case, pulled the pin and put the grenade back in the cardboard sleeve and placed it back in the wooden crate. The CWO3, Chief Warrant Officer, that I reported to and I went out to the location were we stored a three day supply of ammunition to supply one Battle Group in the event we were called up.. I was in the 101st Airborne at that time which consisted of five Battle Groups and a Support Group. The Warrant Officer pried the lid off the first case we came to, looked in and right away spotted the grenade without the pin. Don't know if the clown that did that was ever caught but never assumed anything after that. :eek:

Lon

Or even worse: One EMP and they all go bang...

Battery thermal runaway?

The expression "KISS" was invented for good reason. Some fail to learn it.

[Holding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
King Arthur: How does it... um... how does it work?
Sir Lancelot: I know not, my liege.
King Arthur: Consult the Book of Armaments.
Brother Maynard: Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one.
Cleric: [reading] And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chu...
Brother Maynard: Skip a bit, Brother...
Cleric: And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
Brother Maynard: Amen.
All: Amen.
King Arthur: Right. One... two... five!
Galahad: Three, sir.
King Arthur: Three!