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M59 (Defensive Hand Grenade)
The M59 is a US-developed, high explosive (HE) controlled-fragmentation, defensive, impact- and delay-fuzed, hand grenade, which is based on, and almost identical to, the M33 grenade. Overview The M59 is essentially the M33 grenade, differing only in that M33 uses the M213 mechanically-fired pyrotechnically-delayed time fuze and not the M217. The M59 is also known as the M33A1. Construction The M59 comprises two steel shells, which ar...
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