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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 6:58am

[SIZE=3]Grenade, Mle1915, 1918, 1930, 1937[/SIZE]
Weight: 275g
Explosive: 150g (cheddites)
Range: 8-10 meters
Notes: Standard French hand grenade, smooth-walled

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:00am

[SIZE=3]Grenade F1, Mle1916, 1918, 1930, 1937[/SIZE]
Weight : 660g
Explosive : 60g
Range: dangerous up to 100 meters
Notes: Standard French hand-grenade, "pineapple". Some more recent F1 grenades have a short wooden handle attached to the bottom for easier throwing in a pineapple-on-a-stick arrangement.

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:01am

[SIZE=3]Grenade DF Mle1917[/SIZE]
Weight: ?
Explosive: ?
Range: ?
Notes: may be thrown or used as a rifle grenade

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:02am

[SIZE=3]Grenade incendiaire et fumigène Mle1916[/SIZE]
Weight: 560g
Active content: 300g
Range: 20 meters
Notes: Incindiary and smoke grenade

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:03am

[SIZE=3]Grenade incendiaire Mle1937[/SIZE]
Weight: 560g
Active content: 300g
Range: 20 meters
Notes: Incindiary grenade

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:04am

[SIZE=3]Grenade explosive Mle1915 (VB de guerre) Rifle Grenade[/SIZE]
Caliber: 50 mm
Weight: 490g
Explosive: 60g
Range: 80-170 m (800mm barrel rifle) or 145-215m (450mm barrel carbine). The sighting device Mle1917 M is graduated from 10m to 10m until 170m
Rate of fire : 4-9 rpm (therefore usually a group of 3-4 VB launchers are firing together)
Notes: Used for the Tromblon Vivien-Bessière (Tromblon VB) rifle grenade launcher

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:05am

[SIZE=3]VB Grenade anti-char Mle1939[/SIZE]
Size: 50mm
Weight: ?
Explosive: HEAT shaped charge
Range: 100mm
Fuse: Impact
Note: Estimated 40mm armour penetration, historical weapon

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:12am

[SIZE=3]VB grenade porte-messages[/SIZE]
A VB grenade with a small smoke charge and a compartment for written messages; intended to be used to communicate between isolated trenches.

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Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 7:14am

[SIZE=3]Grenade anti-char Mle1942[/SIZE]
Size: 95mm wide, 340mm long
Weight: 1275g
Explosive: 620g TNT shaped charge
Range: Thrown
Fuse: Impact
Note: Introduced to service January 1942. Estimated 75mm armour penetration.