Question on pssible LAC 59

[jvollenberg]

I have a possible GR LAC 59 or GR OF 59. However, I cannot find anything on these having a vent hole in the base. Does anyone know what this might be? I thought it might be a trainer.

Dia: 61MM
Length: 114MM With Fuze
length: 93MM Without the Fuze

Joe

 

[Yodamaster]

It's a french tear gas hand grenade Mle 59 (GR LAC 59)


Yoda

 

[jvollenberg]

So it does have a vent hole in the base. Interesting, all the internal images I have seen do not show this.
Thanks for the assistance.

Joe

 

[MINENAZ16]

Hello,

1- No vent hole in the base of french grenade lacry. mod 59.
2 -The assembly of the base is different (the mounting flange is narrower)

You're grenade looks like a french smoke grenade WP mod 1960, exactly same shape (and paint : grey body with red band).
However I've never seen the mod 60 with such a vent hole in the base ; unnecessary as the grenade is fitted with a central buster.

Regards

 

[Yodamaster]

Thread is not closed ! All the view I have are effectively without bottom hole.
It's normally used with BAT 2,5s fuze, wich is detonating ?!?!?

Questions are to be asked on our french members !


Yoda

 

[orpheus72]

Attached some pages from 'Les Grenades a main, cours munitions' de l'armée française

the GR MA FUM PH OF 59 did not use the 2,5s fuze according the tech. docs.
Also, no vent hole was present in the base.

I slightly misread the question (tought it was about the OF version), so i also added the pages of the GR MA LAC 59

The GR MA LAC 59 did use the 2 or 2,5s fuze.
In the first picture of the manual, there seems to be an option to connect multiple grenades, implying that the bottom does have a venthole/screwhole, but in the separate drawing, it is not mentionned....
Could be a change from earlier grenades (the document is from 1980, so alterations to the GR MA LAC 59 are possible)

 

[MINENAZ16]

-Orpheus : I think the first image of Lac59 series shows grenades for storage. These grenades have concave base for storage without fuze.

-bases fixing comparison (definitly not a body of Lac59) :



-The hole could have been made to show the grenade is inert (or a variant/test with body of WP60)

 

[jvollenberg]

I was thinking the same thing. This might be an inerting hole. Sometimes the obvious things slip my mind when I am looking at these pictures.

Joe