Indian Maoist Grenades

[MrArmsRacer]

Here are some images I came across the other day. Pretty interesting, very Mills influenced.

 

[highlandotter]

are these aluminum or zinc? Would sort of limit fragmentation, I would think.

 

[MrArmsRacer]

The article didn't say about the material, from the look of the metal and the quantity of them found in one raid I'd imagine they are casting from a soft easy metal like aluminum.

 

[xPANZERx]

any info on the internals, do they work like mills bombs or are the internals totally different?

 

[EOD]

I'd go for aluminum judging by the appearance and the fact that the Indians a doing lots of things from cast aluminum.

It seems those Indian Maosits (funny bunch I never heard of - shows how little we are aware of) are also using regular produced grenades from several countries (China, Pakistan and others) as can be seen here:
http://kaw.stb.s-msn.com/i/EF/557CDED33A6F3168A915DB26E57B76.jpg

Some more random images related to that group:
http://www.ndtv.com/news/maoistgrenadestory.jpg

http://static.ibnlive.in.com/ibnlive/pix/sitepix/03_2010/maoist-hand-grenade-630.jpg

 

[Millsman]

Another variation of the Mills 36 by the look of it. The first reference to Indian terrorist copies I've found goes back to the 1920's. Not much changes!

John

 

[pointblank0]

They don't look very well crafted to me. Still, they probably do the job quite reasonably.