Military Tear Gas Grenades

[US-Subs]

We did smoke grenades last week, shall we try tear gas grenades this week? Only military - we can do commercial in another week, and only tear gas. Rifle grenades are ok as well. I'll start with some of US.

[US-Subs]

Here is my M58, its pretty ratty, and a variant I've never found documentation on. It has a soft rubber skinned body.

Then here are some non-US. I have a question for Ben, the two Dutch grenades based on the V40 - for years I've been told by Dutch collectors that these were tear gas, you recently mentioned that they were diver signals. Any documents?

[inertordnance]

US-Subs, Nice Stuff! I have been looking for one of those M25A2 Talc Versions forever to fill a void.

Some US XM651 / XM581 Fuze Pics ..........

[inertordnance]

US E24 & XM674 40MM CS Gas .........

[US-Subs]

How did you get past the glue to separate the XM651?

[inertordnance]

How did you get past the glue to separate the XM651?

Luckily just ran across an example that the ojive and fuze assembly unscrewed with just heavy hand pressure. It appears that the glue deteriorated and became brittle possibly due to age or prior storage conditions?

[inertordnance]

Some M25A2's from various manufactures .......

[Fragman]

I do like the "ball" type US CS grens. I've not seen one over here. We do seem to have our fair share of Brit ones though. Here's a couple of my favourites. Cheers

[US-Subs]

Some M25A2's from various manufactures .......

I've got the yellow band one as well, but it isn't ready for display yet - I had never seen one until the mid 1990s, and was told by several people that it was a new marking. A few years ago I was doing some work in Vietnam looking at CS burial sites and we saw thousands - so much for it being new markings. I also saw many M58s and XM54s - very tempting. In the end I took one of the color coded plastic bands from around the shipping container, that and some muddy photos was all I got.

[US-Subs]

Not grenades, but here are a couple more CS pieces.