'Nam 'nades so far

[dano1917]

Well, the wife and I picked the garden this morning and we just got done canning 16 pints of Dano's "Senor Smoke" hot salsa. got bored went downstairs and took a snap of what I think are the Vietnam era grenades I have to date. The M31 rifle grenade is dated 11-64..Dano

 

[US-Subs]

Here's a few from the other side of the fence.

 

[US-Subs]

And a couple more. The one on the left was a French mortar modified to be used as a rifle grenade.

 

[Lou]

I wonder how my vets have souveniers like this stashed. I can see these as the "new/new" grenade collectable in the years ahead.

 

[dano1917]

nam new

Vietnam New? Yeah I used to think the same way, feels like the 70's were just yesterday, but the war has been done for over 30 years, so to say "new" i'm not so sure. In some ways seems like I graduated high school just the other day, but it was months before that!!!! Dano

 

[alan.military]

I really like the North Vietnamese RGD-5 knock off!

 

[US-Subs]

There's an even better copy of the 2.36 rocket. It looks like its on steroids, about half again larger. I've never seen it in the wild or in a private collection, but they have it on display at the Hanoi Military Museum, I'll dig around and see if I can find a photo later.

 

[Fragman]

Hi. Whilst actually a VC mine, this little fella looks enough like a grenade to show here:xd: Cheers Colin

 

[US-Subs]

Later it was called the Minh mine - understandably it still shows up in a lot of collections as an unknown stick grenade. I've never seen one with paint quite that nice though. Mine looks like it was drug behind a truck.

Here is the VN copy of the 2.36 I promised, with another picture of some additional NVN grenades also on display at the museum.