I like how people are against limiting movement while throwing a grenade.
Realistically, grenades like the F1 would never be thrown while out of cover. You know why?
They had a maximum throwing distance of 30-45 meters. The shrapnel had a lethal or wounding capacity out to 30 meters.
That's why it's called a defensive grenade. You threw it while you were under cover, so the fragments from the explosion wouldn't kill you. If you threw it while out of cover, you had as much chance of being killed by shrapnel as did the enemy.
For a grenade like the Model 43 Stielhandgranate, there were nearly zero fragments generated by the blast. It was an offensive grenade, which means you could throw it while assaulting a position and not under the best of cover; you didn't need to worry about getting killed as long as you were out of the range of the concussive blast, which was relatively small.
I guess you could compare throwing an F1 grenade out of cover to dolphin-diving. It would end in pain, but was possible to do.
Realistically, grenades like the F1 would never be thrown while out of cover. You know why?
They had a maximum throwing distance of 30-45 meters. The shrapnel had a lethal or wounding capacity out to 30 meters.
That's why it's called a defensive grenade. You threw it while you were under cover, so the fragments from the explosion wouldn't kill you. If you threw it while out of cover, you had as much chance of being killed by shrapnel as did the enemy.
For a grenade like the Model 43 Stielhandgranate, there were nearly zero fragments generated by the blast. It was an offensive grenade, which means you could throw it while assaulting a position and not under the best of cover; you didn't need to worry about getting killed as long as you were out of the range of the concussive blast, which was relatively small.
I guess you could compare throwing an F1 grenade out of cover to dolphin-diving. It would end in pain, but was possible to do.
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