The US Army this month introduced its first new lethal hand grenade since the Vietnam War, a plastic weapon that uses shock waves rather than shrapnel to kill enemies.

For the first time in nearly six decades, the US Army is getting a new lethal hand grenade. The Army cleared the new M111 Offensive Hand Grenade for full production this week. The new blast ...

The U.S. Army has cleared the M111 offensive hand grenade for procurement, the first new lethal hand grenade model to enter the service’s inventory since the M67 fragmentation grenade arrived in 1968.

The U.S. Army’s next-generation grenade weapon moved a step closer to fielding last week ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. – The U.S. Army has cleared the M111 Offensive Hand Grenade (OHG) for Full Material Release (FMR). Developed by the Capabilities Program Executive Ammunition and Energetics ...

If you’ve thrown a Nerf football, you can throw a grenade against invading Soviets. At least, that’s what the U.S. Army thought in 1973 — and it put that theory to the test. “At the start of the Cold ...

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