So… what were the Germans so used to throwing that theirs has a handle?
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shice@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If I remember correctly, the spherical design was mainly created to resemble a baseball. Since most US citizens knew how to throw a baseball at the time it would mean they didn’t have to train soldiers as much
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Going off of the shape and what I know of Germany today, beer bottles.
tetris11@feddit.uk 10 months ago
or Yufkas
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Those came after WWII, from the Gastarbeitern who helped rebuild Germany
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dildos
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Axisaxes
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That is a myth. The spherical form is to maximize surface area to volume for shrapnel, ensuring that no matter how it lands. Shrapnel will go in all directions.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That’s definitely a myth. Soviet WW-2 grenades like RGD-5 and F-1 are also spherical and baseball was unknown at that time in USSR.
InputZero@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s also wayyy more cost effective when you’re transporting them. For the Allies, because they relied so heavily on supply lines every cubic foot of space on a ship or truck was important. Carrying a grenade on a stick to the front means not carrying three more grenades. I’m sure four grenades are more lethal than one grenade that a soldier might be able to throw a little bit further.