M75 (hand grenade)

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M75 (hand grenade)


an M75 hand grenade next to the transport box

General Information
Designation: M75 (alternatively M-75, sometimes BR M75 or HG M75)
Type: Egg grenade
Country of origin: Yugoslavia
Technical specifications
Combat weight: 335 g
Charge: 36-37 g nitropenta / tetryl
Length: 89 mm
Diameter: 57 mm
Exercise version:

VBR M75

Use in conflicts:

Yugoslav Wars

Lists on the subject

The M75 hand grenade (also: M-75 , Serbian кашикара kašikara , German  Kaschikara (spoon) ) is a Yugoslav hand grenade , which was designed for use in restricted areas such as trenches , forests and bunkers . The grenade consists of a body, an explosive charge and a mechanical time fuse and is transported in a plastic box.

The body is lined with 3000 steel balls, each 2.5-2.9 mm in diameter. The effective kill radius is 12 meters, the injury radius 30–54 meters. The cargo consists of 36 grams of plastic explosives . The detonator has a trigger time of 3 to 4.4 seconds.

An identical grenade was produced in Macedonia under the designation M93 .

The hand grenade was mainly used during the Yugoslav wars by the armies of Yugoslavia and its successor states.

Use by criminal gangs

Remnants of M75 hand grenades (as well as M93) from the Yugoslav wars were and are (as of 2019) smuggled to Sweden , Belgium and England, among others . In Sweden it is the most frequently used grenade, which was used there between criminal gangs in grenade attacks that were exceptionally frequent for western countries from 2013 onwards. In England, for example, it was used in 2012 for the murder of two police officers in Manchester .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog 2016, Krušik Holding Corporation . S. 51 ( krusik.rs [PDF]).
  2. ↑ M75. In: Lexpev.nl. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ M 93. In: Lexpev.nl. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Balkan War History. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden's Middle Class. In: New York Times. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  6. ^ Denmark, Worried About Bombings by Swedish Gangs, Begins Border Checks. In: New York Times. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Why Swedish gangs use hand grenades (and what the country is doing about it). In: The Local (Sweden). Retrieved February 28, 2018, November 21, 2019 (UK English).
  8. ↑ Sweden has a problem with hand grenades - and here's why. April 10, 2018, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Grenade stash in Oldham drain. In: BBC. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Grenades gebruik je toch alleen in oorlog? In: De Standaard. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .