Talk:Mills bomb

Segmentation?
I dunno, but I've read somewhere that it doesn't actually help segmentation if its done on the outside, or if its done in grooves outside. AllStarZ 01:13, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, even the main hand grenade article notes that the external segmentation doesn't increase fragmentation...

71.185.139.146 (talk) 12:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Bowled not thrown
The grenade was not "thrown". It was bowled overarm with a straight arm, like a cricket ball. The disctinction is important if you're using it. Rcbutcher (talk) 05:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I bet that somewhere, sometime, one of the suckers was thrown.172.190.46.133 (talk) 02:28, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Not only that, me, but bowling implies that the object in question is sent rolling along the ground, something quite inadvisable with regard to grenades.--172.190.185.26 (talk) 03:59, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Discrepancy between dates?
The "stats" sidebar at right says used from 1915-1970's, but the last paragraph it says MANUFACTURED into the early 1980's: is there supposed to be a difference?

Throwing Range
Article says that it could be thrown 30 yards. The entry for the German Model 24 Grenade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_24_grenade) says that the Mills would only be thrown 15 yards, where the 24 would go 30-40, therefore Germany made the design decision for a heavier grenade. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.162.137 (talk) 14:14, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

--24.57.225.36 (talk) 00:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Fifteen yards? Yet another danger associated with the playing of soccer: an inability to throw grenades very far. Even thirty sounds low to me, but we Americans learn to throw things from an early age. Hit my mother in the eye with a block when I was still in a crib. In all seriousness, though, any figure for grenade throwing range is bound to be arbitrary in the extreme, possibly to the point of it not being suitably verifiable for an encyclopedia.--172.190.185.26 (talk) 05:11, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The Swedish army in the 1990s practiced throws at tube-frames standing 10-20 meters away, with the goal to have the grenade going through the smallest square roughly 3x3 decimeters in size, simulating getting grenades into fireports in bunkers and the like. Then there was shallow pits simulating foxholes we threw at from longer ranges, trying to get them to drop into the pits. Just hurling them as far as we could was a totally different thing, where the "precision" would be tens of metres. Keep in mind the regulations aims for either the average soldier expected or the bare minimum requirements demanded, and not for the truly proficient. BP OMowe (talk) 07:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Any British kid learns to throw at an early age too, it's cute that you were so excited to feel superior though. 15 yards is obvious bullshit, my granny could throw further. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.9.182.125 (talk) 15:57, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Home Guard Pocket manual says 30yds. And we can assume the British Army had the measure of their troops. The British summer sport is cricket which means the average British schoolboy of the time could both both kick and throw things.30 yards sounds good for something that weighs nearly 2lb. Basic thing to remember with Mills bomb is that lethal range > throwing range.GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:45, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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