Talk:F1 grenade (Australia)

In service date
The article curently gives an in service date of 2006. Are you sure? I'm pretty sure it was earlier than this... no references to prove it though. Anotherclown (talk) 23:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree that the in service date is before this. The first time I used the F1 was in January 2001. So it is at least before this date.

The in-service date was long before 2006; there was an accident at the factory assembling them more than a decade before that, |in 1995. Note that from the quantities involved, this wasn't an experimental batch, but a full scale lot. -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 17:40, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes you are right they entered service in the 1990s. I've corrected this and added a reference. Anotherclown (talk) 04:44, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

I've combined both of these sources into the article to provide an accurate time-frame for the introduction of the F1 grenade. It was introduced in the late 1990s, though no specific date can be found. Definitely not 2006, though I do believe that was around when he the ADF signed/resigned a large procurement contract with Thales to keep manufacturing the grenade. Kapitan1999 (talk) 11:45, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

No working sources
All of the original sources are now dead, and need to be replaced. Thales has removed any mention of producing hand grenades from their website, and all of those DoD releases are probably gone forever as well. Asdfzxc920 (talk) 04:06, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorted. Archive urls have now been added. Anotherclown (talk) 20:22, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

I have just added in more working sources. Kapitan1999 (talk) 11:45, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

St Marys fragmentation grenade explosion 1995
Archived source here here for possible inclusion at a later date. Anotherclown (talk) 04:43, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for this source, I just used it to implemented it into the stub. This also helped to provide a timeframe for the introduction of the F1 grenade into the Australian Defence Force. Kapitan1999 (talk) 11:42, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Explosive Filling
It is extremely dubious that the grenade is filled with 30 g of RDX and 30 g of wax. I know of no fill that would use 50/50 RDX/wax as this is a nonsensical explosive. It would be right on the edge of detonability and it would be very weak. It's hard to imagine a grenade powered by just 30 g of RDX. Itš total nonsense. I'd remove that "info". ParallaxHunter (talk) 17:17, 4 July 2024 (UTC)