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M56 (Defensive Hand Grenade)
The M56 is a US-developed, high explosive (HE) controlled-fragmentation, defensive, delay fuzed, hand grenade, which is based on, and almost identical to, the M26A2 grenade. Construction The M56 comprises a two-part, thin, sheet steel-walled outer casing, which forms an ovoid body that holds an internal notched wire fragmentation coil liner and high explosive filling. The top of the M56's body has a strengthened threaded fuze well, whils...
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