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Originally Posted by Pibwl
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 |
I have read about 'poor quality' Soviet grenades, and with a source claiming only a 14yd 'effective radius'...which is low for a defensive grenade.
The quality of the filler could be the main issue.
However, I only have primary sources for the German, US and British grenades, so your info may well be right that the F-1 was as effective as western frags.
The poor quality grenades could have been the tin can RG-42.
That said, to Andy's point, there's difference between 'effective radius' and 'deadly/safe radius'. I don't doubt that a F-1 could kill an
unlucky man at 80m.
Cross