Stick grenade 24
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| General Information | |
| Designation: | Stick grenade 24 |
| Type: | Stick grenade |
| Country of origin: | German Empire |
| Technical specifications | |
| Combat weight: | 595 g |
| Charge: | 170 g TNT |
| Length: | 365 mm |
| Diameter: | 70 mm |
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The stick hand grenade 24 was the only hand grenade of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the Second World War .
construction
The stick hand grenade, which weighed 595 grams, consisted of a hollow wooden handle with a tear-off cord, a burner and the pot made of thin-walled sheet steel with a powder charge made of TNT . The entire stick grenade was 36.5 centimeters long. The hand grenade was only activated when the detonator was inserted . It was completely safe in this state and only detonated after a delay of four to five seconds when the tear-off cord tore off.
A further development was the stick hand grenade 39 and stick hand grenade 43 . Approximately 75 million stick hand grenades were made during World War II. In the First World War, 300 million were delivered.
Modifications
From 1941, a reinforcement jacket made of cast iron , a so-called splinter ring, could be placed around the pot according to the Soviet pattern . This increased the fragmentation effect of the stick hand grenade.
In addition to being thrown individually, the stick grenade could also be used as a concentrated charge or as a straight charge. They were used in bunker combat or to blow up wire obstacles. With the concentrated charge, five or six hand grenade pots were tied around a stick grenade in the middle. When this hand grenade was ignited, the bundle was detonated. To produce a stretched load, hand grenade pots were attached to a board or a strong branch at intervals of 15 centimeters. At the end a stick grenade was attached with a longer tear-off cord.
Cross section of stick hand grenade 24
See also
literature
- Alex Buchner: German and Allied Army Weapons 1939–1945 . MTM Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-934507-01-8 , p. 9.
- Terry Gander, Peter Chamberlain: Encyclopedia of German Weapons 1939-1945 . 2nd Edition. Special edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02481-0 .
