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hello,
I am looking for documentation (sectional drawing) on the M46 stick grenade. It is made in China but it is intended for the Afghan army as the name M46.
The M46 may be showing up in Afghanistan, but the grenade has been around for a lot longer than the current Afghan conflict and was in service in China originally. Like many other pieces of ordnance, China provides their older stocks of ordnance to countries like Afghanistan who are happy to have it and not trained to handle much in the way of more modern sophisticated items. The markings are different in format from the normal grenade markings seen today and I do not have a breakdown of them. The "652" matches a Chinese plant that made grenades and they often will insert a "0" in front of their numbers. The M46 is the model number and although China now uses "Type" numbers, some earlier ordnance they produced had "M" numbers. My example never had any markings on it, examples of which are often found. The filler is about 49g of cast TNT. The pull friction fuze has a delay of about 4-5 seconds. There are about 160 large heavy fragmentsembedded in a tar like matrix in the body.
I assume your fragments are smaller than those in mine. The number of fragments I quoted came from an original Chinese document on the grenade. Not sure if I understand your question. I think the 0652 may be the factory code for the plant that made the grenade. Not sure what the rest of the numbers are. Bob
Interesting variation with the plastic cap and the crimps on the handle. First one I have seen with both. Must be a later version. None of the early Chinese literature I have seen shows those. onder what the crimps are for?
Bob
Interesting variation with the plastic cap and the crimps on the handle. First one I have seen with both. Must be a later version. None of the early Chinese literature I have seen shows those. onder what the crimps are for?
Bob
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