Croatian hand grenade PGB 03 kveranka with original technical drawing

[goran_croatia]

One more inert PGB product from my collection of Croatian inert ordnance. This grenade was made in Shipyard Split (Brodosplit). The codename for it during production was Tratinčica, but official name is PGB 03. This grenade is a part of kveranka family of grenades, because all grenades produced in Brodosplit were called "kveranka". This one was produced in largest number. The filler was Trotyl and it was also packed in Brodosplit during the war in Croatia. Very large amounts of Trotyl were brought to Brodosplit from Croatian army after demining Divulje military base near Split in 1991, so that Trotyl was repacked by PGB team in Brodosplit in 70 grams and 120 grams packages. 70 grams packages were used for PGB 03 grenades filler and 120 grams packages were used for all variants of PGB 02 grenades, including all bouncing mines made in Brodosplit.

You can see original technical drawing from Brodosplit together with this grenade on my pics.

 

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goran,

how effective of a kill zone pattern does this have?

 

[goran_croatia]

goran,

how effective of a kill zone pattern does this have?

Kill zone radius was 50-70 meters from the explosion. During testing, this grenade with Trotyl filling of 70 grams had percentage of fragmentation 80%. The steel body of every PGB 03 was thermally proceed during process of making grenade body in order to make better fragmentation characteristics of the grenade.