Nammo's scalable hand grenade is a unique building block concept. Explained by Nammo's director for Marine Corps operations, Pat Woellhof. Recorded at AUSA 2019.
@@許進曾 ttis i also asked here...why not have next to the exlosions version have a wooden stick you can screw one....you can trow it like...just fucking far
If they have their own shrapnel stuck in them, perhaps they need to train better at throwing them? Just a thought. EDIT: You reporting my comments, eh? Yep, for a moment i thought there were adults around here. Guess not. I´ll run to the store and buy you all some pacifiers, formula, and some bright colored toys! Babies having a tantrum... how quaint!
@@Biden_is_demented fragments can fly up to 300 feet from an M67, it isn't likely to kill but the fragments fly much much further than the 5 meter kill zone or 15 meter injury zone
Still doesn´t justify it. For a piece of shrapnel to pierce the uniform and the skin, you have to be really close. Even if the "15 meter" range is a conservative number, it still means you throw the thing and either forget to take cover, or you threw it recklessly too close to your team mates. For that many soldiers to have shrapnel in them to make the above comment true, it means they are not respecting minimum distances. Ergo, more training needed. In this day and age, grenades are only used to clear rooms, in CQB. You never fight close enough to an enemy to warrant using them anywhere else. So if you throw a grenade in a room and enter it before it detonates, you are really terrible at soldiering, and perhaps need to be doing something else. This is compounded by the fact that most US soldiers have grown up playing baseball, so throwing should be almost second nature. No excuse to throw like a little girl and eat your own grenade.
Darth Mucus I have never been in the military, so I am not going to comment on having been injured by a friendly grenade. I can see a million ways it could happen, but also the logic of it never should. Maybe before you inadvertently or on purpose call our soldiers dumb asses, you open your thick skull to the notion that combat is chaotic and sometimes they have to do things that may jeopardize their own safety to save the life of someone else. If chucking a grenade into a room that I don’t have perfectly adequate cover from fragmentation means saving the life of my buddy pinned down and bleeding out, frag out!!! Life isn’t always by the book, sometimes you have to think on your feet and make a less than ideal call. I have a great deal of respect for the people who fight for our freedom, and don’t really care for keyboard commandos that are just arm chair quarterbacking their every decision.
The anti-structure capability is probably from a concussive blast wake. Instead of like a shape charge being focused, this blasts the walls and supports outward in all directions.
@@jacobbuxton932 I am by no means a expert or even a novice when it comes to explosives, I just have a fascination with military/ weapon technology development history so I've absorbed a lot of information over the years. From my understanding shape charges are more designed for defeating armor (by using an inverted cone in front of the charge to cause a plasma stream to burn through armor) then they are for structure damage. If anyone with expertise knows better than me please correct me I'd love to know more myself.
Salesman: "This puppy got gas, napalm, HE, nails, conventional shrapnel, high-reactivity thermite, and nuclear waste vaporization. All in a single package." Grunt: "What's it called." Salesman: "I call it... _The yeet stick."_
If they are for use by American forces there will be a warning printed on them saying "No more than 3". Remember the Claymore Mines had "This side to enemy" embossed on them - Why?
I'm assuming only the +1 can be screwed on at the end, in reality they should all have a base and connection so you could have three concussions if needed. However, a team of five could make a base plus six, or ten if it is..
@@pyromaniac7357 Ooh, I love everything that goes 'bang' but I'm not so sure about this one (or two or three)...... One of them seems to be a concussion grenade and then you just add more, fair enough in buildings/rooms but inferior to a standard frag grenade in streets or open ground? Sure, you can 'force multiply' by literally 'screwing-around' with the grenades, try doing that when you are 'hyped' and your hands are shaking, or there's sand on the threads or you don't have time to decide how many charges you need and then calmly screw the mass together? I don't hate the idea, it would have much more merit if you could just 'click' them together (that must be possible) and even more-so if there were different munitions available. So you could choose to add a frag component, or an incendiary or even smoke ? Pax dude
That’s not the intended purpose. And wouldn’t really make sense, there’s many other handheld weapons that do the job much better. Also NAMO grenades are not very effective, thermoberics are infinitely better
that's what m67 frags are for. This is meant for clearing rooms basically, where the shrapnel doesn't matter or is actually unwanted. Better to have two specialized tools than a crappy jack of all trades. I imagine the military got this to replace to ancient concussion grenades they've been using. Btw, just a fun fact, concussion grenades are not non lethal weapons like in video games. They're meant to kill people without producing fragmentation
He started happy at 1:09 then his expression degraded until at 1:16-1:17 he looks like he just had a flashback. PTSD, one of the worst things one can bestow upon oneself
There's no better sales pitch than selling an escape from your own personal hell: "If we would have had this, we could have saved a lot of men a great deal of pain." "A great deal of..." *chokes down tears* "Agony."
1. No such thing as 'non-lethal' if it can stop an angry man quickly, it *could* kill 2. Already pretty good less-lethal grenades out there (stingers etc) 3. In combat you wouldn't want to carry two of these attached, always, to make sure it would work as intended. Military should leave less lethal grenades to the police.
Id imagine most people would have a 2 power pre built, a single power and a spare in a pouch waiting for a need, least I would if they gave me the parts to do so
Norbert Kas that’s not how anti structure munitions drop buildings. They create a vacccume within rather than focusing on brute force like conventional HE
This would make a good tactical option really. Let the grunts keep their frags, but this gives them the choice of added kill power, demolition, or stunning enemies before room clearing
We had the same concept in the Swiss Army with the HG43. It's a stick grenade just like the German army had and you can unscrew the loads and screw them together. Max was 5 pieces and you had a explosive pipe just like a mini bangalore.
Grenade is cool. More importantly I’d like to highlight how hard it was for the speaker to reference operation phantom fury. This man has some stories to tell, that I’m sure of.
Dad: "Billy, I know you really like Legos, but you need to go outside and play now. By the way, why did you duct-tape M-80's to the side of each one of them?" Billy: "Just a sec, dad-- I really think I'm on to something here..."
If you wanted the shrapnel effect (it has its uses of course) could you also have an option for a cylindrical "jacket" of segmented metal pieces? Essentially the grid pattern on a traditional grenade but able to be screwed on to the outside casing surrounding the explosives.
Next up: Jedi marine with a green lightsaber. Marine wizard with a green staff. Olympic marine green javelin thrower. McGyver marine with a duct taped 4x4 anti tank grenade. Demolition marine armed with sufficient lego skills and x20 charges bringing down buildings.
Normal people: wow the pure lethality of this device is impressive and terrifying at the same time Marines: *attaches like 8 of them like fuckin dry erase markers* “ITS OVER ANAKIN! I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND”
You could also make base grenades which are modified for remote timed explosives, ones that are made to be put in a cannon (Airbust, HEDP etc) , and an attachment for fragmentation, Maybe a proximity triggered base.
i pretty sure i've seen this type of thing before but it was the detonator and lever as it's one unit which you could screw into a main body that was whatever. Thus pretty much the normal design but split into interchangeable components. This is kinda just a normal grenade with a screwable end. nothing that special about it that would improve logistics, cost, ease of use, or main other factors.
I know for a *fact* some dudes will make entire spears out of these. Spear throwing will once again after hundrets of years be relevant in a combat environment. What a world...
