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German smoke grenades

Tmine35

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Here some inert German smoke grenades.
 

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The Shaving Stick grenade is just wonderful, I want one of these!!!! The Red cap indicates 1 second delay fuse, it is a booby traped grenade?
 
Morning Miguel.
I dont think its a booby trap as its only a smoke grenade.
Most military smoke grenades ive used only have a 1 or 2 second delay before they start smoking so maybe this is the reason for the red cap.
Cheers, Paul.
P.S. I have worked out how to get updated by email now. Cheers for that.
 
The charge on right with external fuze is color smoke signal ( Landungsrauchzeichen ) used by Luftwaffe. They were 3 different colors, I think.
The two in middle are different sizes of orange color signals used by Wehrmacht.
 
Signal smoke charges often had 1 - 1,5 second delay only. They were not explosive and obviously sometimes it was need to create the smoke signal at once ( as example to prevent enemy from throwing it away from his positions ).
 
:hello:
Don't forget that the smoke mixtures have slow ignition. So they have an additional delay to those of the fuze.
:ciao:
 
Interesting variants Reino, Thank you for sharing these. When were the glass BK type used? and was there an internal Vial of some sort for a reactive chemical ? or was the agent reactive with air?
Regards
Andrew
 
BK14 was filled with Titanium Tetrachloride which reacted with air humidity to produce a smoke cloud. In very dry or cold ambient it didn't work. Therefore BK24 containing and additional salt water charce in small tube was developed in the next.
 
No, it's a big brother of orange 80. I have it somewhere in my books but couldn't find it just now. I think it was called Orange 120 :questionmark:
 
"Usual" Orange 160 is shorter. Does it have any markings/stencilings?
 

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All stencillings are faded away. This also may be a Luftwaffe marker as it comes from such a place. I got it years ago and never studied it carefully.
 
Here it comes. The pot is 45mm diameter and 102mm long.
 

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