Stielhandgranate
Sign in to save' (lit. "Stick hand grenade") is a series of World War I and World War II–era German hand grenade designs, also known as the Potato masher (), Doorknocker (), or Jam-pot and stick grenade' (by the British in WWI), The first models were introduced by the Imperial German Army during World War I and the final design was introduced during World War II by the German Wehrmacht.
Key facts
- Weapon.image
- File:Germany hand grenades, stick models 1915, 1915, 1917, 1917, 1916 - National World War I Museum - Kansas City, MO - DSC07779.JPG
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.caption
- Stick grenades on display at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri
- Weapon.type
- Hand grenade
- Weapon.origin
- German Empire
- Weapon.is_explosive
- yes
- Weapon.service
- 1915–1945 (Germany)
- Weapon.used_by
- See
- Weapon.design_date
- 1915–1943
- Weapon.production_date
- 1915–1945
- Weapon.variants
- See
- Weapon.spec_label
- Stielhandgranate 15
- Weapon.filling
- Ammonal
- Weapon.detonation
- 5.5 or 7 seconds timer
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- hand grenade
- Country of origin
- German Empire
- Mass
- 0.5
- Conflict
- Vietnam War
- Image
- Stielhandgranate17.JPG
- Length
- 356
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- Commons category
- Stielhandgranate
- service entry
- 1915-00-00
- service retirement
- 1945-01-01
- inception
- 1915-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Background
- Hairbrush grenade
- Design
- History
- German service
- Austro-Hungarian service
- Variants
- Derivatives
- Users
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
' (lit. "Stick hand grenade") is a series of World War I and World War II–era German hand grenade designs, also known as the Potato masher (), Doorknocker (), or Jam-pot and stick grenade' (by the British in WWI), The first models were introduced by the Imperial German Army during World War I and the final design was introduced during World War II by the German Wehrmacht.
==Background==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stielhandgranate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.