Wilshire@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-227 days agoRussian troops in Ukraine mistook a tree ornament for a super-deadly modified Swiss grenade, and it was even reported on Russian news.sopuli.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1249arrow-down15
arrow-up1244arrow-down1external-linkRussian troops in Ukraine mistook a tree ornament for a super-deadly modified Swiss grenade, and it was even reported on Russian news.sopuli.xyzWilshire@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-227 days agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·26 days agoSwiss grenade? Am I missing something? Do we have an internationally recognized kind of grenade? My conscript time wasn’t in the Infantry so I never had any.
minus-squareWilshire@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·26 days agoThey claimed it was an HG-85 fragmentation grenade.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days agoWith an extra layer added for more shrapnel. Which is dumb. Fragmentation grenades already have a shrapnel section that’s very effective.
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·25 days agoHaha okay thanks for the context. These idiots should at least make their propaganda plausible.
Swiss grenade? Am I missing something? Do we have an internationally recognized kind of grenade? My conscript time wasn’t in the Infantry so I never had any.
They claimed it was an HG-85 fragmentation grenade.
Really different
With an extra layer added for more shrapnel. Which is dumb. Fragmentation grenades already have a shrapnel section that’s very effective.
Haha okay thanks for the context. These idiots should at least make their propaganda plausible.