M67 (grenade)

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M67 shell

The M67 is one of the forces of the United States and the Canadian armed forces used here as C13 refers very effective fragmentation grenade in the form of a hand grenade . It is the successor to the M61 used in the Vietnam War .

With a diameter of 6.5 centimeters, it weighs 400 grams, has up to five secondary detonators , a three-stage safety and activation system and thus achieves an average effective radius of 15 meters. It is usually fatal within a radius of five meters. Individual components can be thrown up to 240 meters. A soldier can throw the M67 on average about 40 meters.

Your explosive filling Composition B , a mixture of hexogen and trinitrotoluene ( TNT ), is 185 grams. It uses an M213 ( delay fuse ) with a delay of between four and five seconds.

With the exception of the additional safety function, the jungle clip , it is identical to the M33.

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