So… what were the Germans so used to throwing that theirs has a handle?
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shice@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Going off of the shape and what I know of Germany today, beer bottles.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 week ago
or Yufkas
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Those came after WWII, from the Gastarbeitern who helped rebuild Germany
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Dildos
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Axisaxes
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.