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M33 (Defensive Hand Grenade)

Grenade  
United States of America

The M33 is a US-developed, high explosive controlled-fragmentation, defensive, delay-fuzed, hand grenade, which replaced the earlier M26 and M26A1 grenades. Construction The M33 comprises two steel shells, which are welded together to form an oblate (squashed) spheroidal body. The upper shell incorporates a cylindrical extension, which forms an internally-threaded fuze well. The internal surfaces of the two steel shells are coined, which...

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