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Originally Posted by Cross
I wouldn't pay too much attention to the effective radius (as it's from different sources) other than to note the already understood difference between offensive and defensive grenades, and that the Soviet F-1 was poor quality.
Defensive grenades should have a higher HEK with no PEN
Offensive grenades should have a lower HEK with 1 PEN
If the designers went with generic grenades, then perhaps they should all get something like HEK 5 PEN 1
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Why assume "poor quality" of F-1? There can't be much philosophy in creating a pre-fragmented cast shell and 60 g of explosive inside, especially, that it was a copy of the French design
I would suspect, that it would rather be prone to malfunctioning, instead of being less lethal.
Official manuals consider safe radius 200 m, on the Russian Wikipedia they quote examples of injuries at 70-80 m for own soldiers without good cover.
Michal