goran_croatia
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New inert grenades into my collection, I meet again with chief of PGB team from Brodosplit as a part of my research for my book about croatian hand grenades made in war for independence,who constructed these grenades in 1991 at the beginning of war in Croatia and I got them as a gift for my collection. The grenade bodies are standard Cetinka (croatian made copy of M75 grenade using the same matrix for moulding in the factory Cetinka in the city Trilj,Croatia). The fuzes are PGB made inertial fuzes with delay,made in Brodosplit in the city Split,Croatia. Brodosplit was one of many croatian factories which produced launching cups for assault rifle M70 and these grenades are original Brodosplit product for their launching cups for M70 rifle. They used grenade bodies made in Cetinka,Trilj and processed them on lathe on the middle body part to fit into the Brodosplit made launching cup. They assembled them with their inertial fuzes which were used on improvised rockets made in Brodosplit in 1991. The fuzes existed in two types,longer and shorter. That shorter was used more often. The fuzes were made as inertial with delay,which means that at the moment of firing from the launching cup attached on the rifle,the inertia would push the firing pin with spring down and ignite the blasting cap. The blasting cap would ignite the delay which was burning for 3-4 seconds and the delay would activate the detonator and the grenade would detonate. Only transport pins are missing,but they were using the piece of copper wire or standard 2,5 mm split pin more often as transport pin.
