The Fanta Bomb & Improvised Munitions in Ukraine 

a lot of the stuff sent by the west has been stolen and sold on the black market

An the government corruption an that.

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Although I don’t understand the principle, I really like it

In Iraq, we were warned not to throw MRE bags out of vehicles while on the road because they could be used to hide IED's.

Absolutely, however the VC ones usually had far more effort put into them. Not that the end result wouldn't probably be the same, but the VC had far less access to factory-made grenade fuzes or ball bearings. Fragmentation was typically made from thin steel rods cut into short segments with a hand shear and while they could sometimes salvage fuzes from expended US smoke grenades and refill them there weren't nearly enough for the quantity they were making so fuzes were usually made from scratch with a friction ignitor. For that reason as well as the sheer quantity they were making they had to be made in dedicated workshops rather than literally in the trenches such as at 1:40 in this video.

Pretty sure it was because the cans were the perfect size to put the grenade in and hold the spoon down. Just needed to pull it out and it would start the cook.

​@@capcamouflagepatterni6162thanks for sharing that interesting history

I believe it’s a coal and fertilizer mix for the explosive

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I'll never look at empty scrap water bottles same again ever.

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Sounds like a rough school or a final solution to a bully bullying you.

​​@@kongoubongo1114just bored kids with access to polish and italian fireworks 😂

Be careful with flash powder. That is some volatile and dangerous stuff.

​@@MrKochshawn depends the flash powder you can get out of firework shells isnt volatile

Absolutely, enjoyed the vid! You guys could try and make some of the can grenades. That would be interesting.

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Plus, standard Russian pattern grenades (RGD-5) are high explosive only with minimal fragmentation. While these seem more fragmentation based w/ ball bearings.

@@1lovesoni tbh i saw way more F1 than rgds in vids from Ukraine

They have enough anti-tank mine to blow up half the planet. Might as well put all that explosives to use.

⁠@@1lovesoniRgd-5 is a fragmentation grenade, it had a fragmentation liner inside the shell.

@@theriddler6994Me too, I suspect that rgd-5 are being issued to soldiers and f-1 grenades are used in drones (that’s why you see more of them from footage). I think Ukraine has a large stockpile of f-1 grenades but because they are obsolete comparing to rgd-5 or NATO supplied M67, where F-1 is heavy and have worst blast and fragmentation performance, they are used for drones instead, which doesn’t matter as much because their drone drops are accurate.

Trillions of dollars of sponsorship to have to fight with pet bottles. That really boosts someone's morale.

@@charles2521 The only Ukrainian getting sponsored is Zelensky. All the others are simply fodder for us Americans to use against Russia

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Your math is as bad as your logic. If you've never been to war or even been in a life or death struggle you shouldn't be speaking when the adults are speaking. Stupid Russian bot

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Thanks for the extra insights!

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I hope you are staying safe. Keep up the good work. America stands with Ukraine.

So, when is it your turn to feed the dogs, tarasik?)

What's real comp?

Especially when that bottle overheats under you, johny boy.)

That's how the flashbang came to be.

ok, but like... wouldnt a bullet kill that single person better than a plastic bottle filled with explosives that are going to be detonated without any actual case? i mean... look at a pressure cooker.. right. thats not a plastic bottle or a 1mm thick aluminum can that is already compromised.

Look up "US Army Munitions Handbook" It's common practice to train and supply troops with the means to manufacture improvised munitions of every type imaginable. I imagine special forces or some other infantry units from other countries have a similar program

Террористы используют такие методы, нормальные сапёры не будут мастерить что-то на коленке. ИМХО

@@alti1095 Your sappers aren't doing so well, are they? A Chinese labour battalion will reeducate you.

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I wouldn't say that Drones are expensive, looking at what something equivalent would cost from an arms manufacturer, they're dirt cheap. And they're hard to destroy as well. Rather they can be hard to source. Few drones are sold to Ukraine, the vast majority are bought outside the country and transported in.

@@Celciusify Well considering they cost around 500-1000 and most of them seem to be purchased or donated by the soldiers/foreigners I'd say they are pretty expensive to lose. If it was the Government purchasing them it would be a different story but as it stands someone losing their drone means they now need to find and purchase a new one themselves or get one that was donated.

​@@WarlordEnthusiastthere a consumable now, I think :/

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Either pilfered from a normal hand grenade, or spare parts. The drones have a maximum carrying capacity, and you want to maximize their utility. These improvised munitions is a bi product of using commercial drones for grenade drops. There are no NATO or Sovyet standard for grenades dropped from small drones, and everything dropped from these drones are improvised. In future wars I expect actual military drones in this size and role, and there will be mass produced munitions for it.

I suspect those fuses are from Police stun grenades, etc.

I'ma look up DIY grenade fuses now.

Making a bomb is simple,it's more difficult to make a fuze.

I think they probably have a stock of them, for such purposes. Probably bought in large amounts.

Can't imagine what I'm on for making it haha. Thanks for watching!

and yet global news was so eager to tell us mixing Styrofoam in gasoline is fine

As good as grenades are these Fanta bombs have much longe and more concentrated fragmentation range. The result of that one in the video strapped to a drones shows how the drone actually hits about 4 metres from the russian yet you see puffs of dust come from his whole body and he looks insta Kia.

Grenade fuzes are sent with the grenade bodies themselves...if you have a fuze you have the rest of the grenade. The reason for these devices is specifically for clearing Russian bunkers. The additional explosive power (about 5 times as much as a normal grenade) will collapse a Russian bunker when thrown in when being cleared...the normal grenades aren't as effective.

It's easier to leave a bottle of vodka with rat poison on the road as a weapon of mass destruction :)

I'd say it's more from the lack of proper munitions. Where oh where did all those billions go lol

@@nicholasholloway8743 money doesnt turn into munitions overnight ... there's a paper trail and congressional oversight.

​@@nicholasholloway8743we forgot the sheer scale of the war. 800+km front line, hundreds of thousands of troops.

@@mr6johnclark haaaaaa. it's not like they're making new stuff. they're selling off expired shit from the 80's. oh yeah how's that congressional oversight going? on the front line doing inventory are they? or are the weapons now on the black market hm?

They didn't send them a box with billions of dollars of cash in it you dumb right wing fool. Even if they had, what do you think Ukraine could do with a box of billions in cash....walk into Walmart in Kiev and buy C4, mortars, hand grenades,manpads, drones etc If you don't know how the US is supporting Ukraine and what these donations are composed of you don't need to be speaking when the adults are speaking

Frag grenades are also somewhat limited by the fact they’re meant to be thrown. If you make the lethal radius too big then they kill the user as well.

⁠@@cm275which means that these grenades are fairly likely to be airdropped via drone. You don't physically have to throw these things so you can cram as much explosive and fragmentation parts as you can + the empty bottles are readily available. Plus it saves actual grenades and mortar rounds for frontline ground troops

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@@cm275 Well for defensive hand grenades that create a lot of fragments the assumption is basically that you’re behind cover like a wall or in a trench when they explode. Offensive hand grenades produce less fragments as you don’t want to get killed by your own hand grenade. The German DM51 hand grenade (100.000 got delivered to Ukraine by Germany at the start of the war) allows you to use it either as a defensive hand grenade with the attached fragmentation mantlet that forms some 6.500 fragments or as an offensive hand grenade by removing the fragmentation mantlet.

​@@cm275well you get defensive and attacking grenades now, the defensive ones are meant to be thrown from behind cover and have a much bigger kill range, attacking ones often dont even conrain any shrapnel and are used for room clearing and things like that

Well, I don't think they can find epoxy in those situations though.

@@DonVetto-vx9dd any sort of glue will work

@@PatchesFlannigan knowledge should be free and available, you don't get to decide what is and isn't appropriate. Bad people will always do bad things, one way or another. High explosives aren't exactly readily available for the average person and anyone who is willing to go to the trouble of making them is going to.

@@PatchesFlannigan but they can freely advocate and encourage the youth to mutilate themselves and take drugs that effect them for the rest of their lives. The anarchist Cookbook is outdated and not that informative. If said 17 year old wanted knowledge they would find it.

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there's a mythbusters episode about grenades, sure it said if you're laying down they only have an effective range up to 1 meter, if standing up though it's a good distance, around 15 meters if i remember correctly.

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ya probably just repurposing danger putty from various munitions, i think that's the purpose of the cluster munitions as well, crack one of those baby's open and you got a bunch of drone capable munitions.

These are all made during down time to extend the supply of the real grenades and such. Making homemade things like this is practice in every Combat Engineer Bible.

Probably because Ukraine is running low on supplies.

@Nobody-Nowhere as a former soldier who's job was explosives & land mines. We would build things out of pure boredom. There's literally a Bible for the Combat Engineers that explains how to make such items. One would use the to stretch your real supply longer.

@Nobody-Nowhere plus it leaves the real grenades to mission critical people like infantryman. These such devices would not be used by a ground troop storming a Dugout. One counts on reliability of equipment in that situation.

Frag grenades are using the casing as a pressure vessel to maximize the pressure spike of the explosion so when the detonation occurs the fragmentation is expelled at high velocities, the actual concussive damage radius is quite low. With these lightweight flimsy cans instead of preformed steel casings, you need to rely on the concussion of the explosive itself to create a lethal shockwave which requires a much larger charge.

Honestly I think they're miscalculating. 1,000 ml of water weighs exactly 1kg. Most soda cans and softdrink bottles hold only around 350 to 800ml. Even if plastic explosive weighs more than water, you still have to fill the space up with ball bearings and shrapnel. So I think it's impossible to fill a bottle with 2kg of explosive. Also, I boil a half kilo of rice every day and I can easily estimate any weight under 3kg. Now if you said that the entire bomb (explosive plus ball bearings) weighs two kilograms, then I might believe it.

Grenade casing is plastic.The fragments are around the outside.

@@eugeneoreilly9356 not sure if you're replying to my comment, but M67 grenades are absolutely steel cased. The same is the case with the older M26 and Mk2.

@@colbunkmust never used a steel cased grenade.Only used plastic cased ones (Swedish made),45 grams propellant,950 fragments.Very small pellets with serrated ring at top and bottom.Cant remember if they had a designation as it's a long while ago.

Ukraine has some drones like that. There is a group called perun who use a drone that can drop 4 anti tank grenades and the SBU and groups like magyars birds use the r18 drone to drop 3 warheads that usually can destroy a tank In 2 hits. Magyars birds which is the most effective strike unit is now upscaling by 5x the size so that terrifying in terms of the level of destruction that might be reached.

Easy to shoot down, they're loud.

@@yoyogi52 Which is why they are typically used at night.

You may be waiting for ever unfortunately. Haven't seen nor heard about those Taiwan drones since last year.

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Thank you!! Great to know. I've butchered some pronunciations in the past so trying my best with them. Thanks for watching.

Pvc couldnt probably take the pressure to keep the cone structure. At the shop i worked out just a 175psi air compressor use to blow it out.

High explosive like C4 doesn't require a container to build pressure. It is devastating as is. Low explosive like gun powder needs containment to build pressure (a running start).

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And with some of those resources being illicitly diverted. Some of the reports have been interesting to read through

@@josedorsaith5261such as? I keep seeing Vatniks claim this but I’ve yet to see any proof posted.

Remember ww1 was men fighting other men the likeness of how a sport would be played, it was one side versus another, then they fight, stop, take lunch, and fight again, next day the same, and except your not talking about super fast super accurate and far more deadly modern ballistics, which if they don't kill you on impact, or from shock from more than one or two or three hits, your body part which is hit, is likely in extreme pain from the "impact shock" of the pure velocity+the weight of the bullet head, I'm a hunter part time, I know next to nothing about advanced ballistics and this and that, but I've seen what a 223 round does to a buck. It completely blackened all the muscle from the shock in a tea-dinner sized plate area. Imagine falling on your bike onto tar, or a very fast direct fall onto your knee onto tar, now times this by a few and expand the radius of pain, and add numbness for a good couple days, plus whatever organ or limb function is directly or indirectly affected, nevermind bone damage. WW1 was a sport in the sense that as was likely the case in the second world war, it was a bunch of people who've never fought even a financial difficulty much less a combative one in they're lives,sending people who were cultured and ethical and I'd argue more loving because of hardship, to go fight for what exactly? but arguably the most brutal war, I'd guess because of very basic medicinal technologies, limited or more empathetically put, innefective killing devices(muzzleloaders etc)which would take a while to reload, often miss and injure rather than kill etc. Picture this, your standing side by side in a line on the early frontal assault for capturing ground,2-500m away stand the enemy doing the same thing(why?), a voice or trumpet calls and the cannons go off, next a voice shouts fire, you and a couple hundred in one line fire simultaneously, Load! You kneel down to load and you have one minute, but wait there's more, the line behind you isn't necessarily going to wait for you, they're behind you and they have to fire while you load, not only that, but the enemy has started firing, exactly the moment you started, so that means, all the cannons, all the muzzles, are firing innacurate, "lead" balls(dirty too likely)all interchanging a hail of lead all at the same time. Right, so you and line two have fired, one of two things are going to happen, either, your now a improvised kamakazi warrior charging with your bayonet, while the enemy is doing the same, all while you meet the enemy in the middle, oh but wait, all the lines of formation behind you, aren't just watching you, they're going to shoot over you. Infection means gangrene, gangrene means limbs lost, bayonets mean blood and vicious close quarter slicing your way through, just to make it out alive, hopefully in time for the next wave of adrenaline to come from both sides to join you, just as you've taken your first life in person. Now move to the trenches, like your old veteran said, rusty nails my friend. Salad fingers ain't got much on that lol(scary and very odd be careful to watch if your squeamish) now granted, those guys would be bayoneted after the fight suffering, would be hopefully short lived, but these trench battles, these were likely a blessing in disguise, compared to frontal open ground assaults. Muzzleloaders and such weren't that effective, at first it was a lead ball, then came the paper cartridge which I guess was the first primitive modern style bullet. Likely only in the early cowboy age did that come along. Hence why you see modern bullets in most cowboy movies. At least, this is what I garner from my lifetime this far, and I've always held a keen historical interest l, as well of that of guns, combat etc.

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In ukr vfu you go feed the dogs...)

Ukraine has not received 100 billion a month lol.