Some former Yugoslavian handgrenades.

[blu97]

And some more.
1 Goradze.
2 One made of a 37mm projectile ( who knows how the fuze works).
3 made from a transport container for grenades.
4 and 5 made of a transport container for fuzes.

 

[blu97]

And the last ones for today.
1 made at the vitezit factory ( these plastic tubes normaly holds mining explosives.
The rest al unknows.

 

[al'saad]

you should see grenades i was making from stew tin cans, fishing hooks, safety fuse and blast cap, and explosive from UXOs, home made bosnian

 

[goran_croatia]

Two of croatian improvised grenades from the beginning of the war in ex-Yugoslavia:







-on the pic 1 and 2 is a hand grenade "Ljevaonicka" made in the factory Plamen in Pozega,Croatia.That factory was producing radiators so it was made of radiator pipes.It is basically a shortened radiator pipe with two caps screwed at the ends of the pipe.It is in the original antioxydant red color
-on the pic 3 and 4 is a hand grenade made of a bronze.It was made in a small private firm in Slavonski Brod,Croatia.It looks like a type of the grenade produced in Duro Dakovic factory,but there are some differencies.On the pic 4 you may notice that the body of the grenade doesn't have a coil made for screwing the fuze.There were several types of the fuze used with this grenade,nothing standard,so the workers would simply sharpened the coil on the fuse that it can fit in the body of the grenade and then glued it after fixing the fuze.This type had a regular M-75 grenade fuze,but taken from the school version,and then equipped with improvised detonator.Also there was the same grenade with the body made of molted iron.

p.s.You may notice some kind of transparent mass filled in the body of the grenade on the picture 4-it's an epoxy resin,I filled it to make it completly inert

 

[alan.military]

Goran,

Excellent post! Great information and pictures, thank you very much for sharing! Are there many military museums in Croatia that have ordnance displays?

Thanks,
Alan

 

[Falcon]

And some more.
1 Goradze.
2 One made of a 37mm projectile ( who knows how the fuze works).
3 made from a transport container for grenades.
4 and 5 made of a transport container for fuzes.

What gun and calibre of cartridge was this projectile intended for?

 

[al'saad]

following stencils on the round i would say it is shell for the yugoslav version of the M1939 soviet automatic air defense gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37-mm_air-defense_gun_M1939_(61-K)#Ammunition

filling of the round on pic is 8:2 hexogen-aluminum , top cyrilic letters HAL20
round is produced in factory Sloboda in town Cacak in year 1975.

 

[goran_croatia]

Goran,

Excellent post! Great information and pictures, thank you very much for sharing! Are there many military museums in Croatia that have ordnance displays?

Thanks,
Alan

Unfortunatelly no,oficially Croatia has The military museum but it is closed for years.I don't have any idea when it will be open.
I have more pics,I will post them in a week.

 

[Falcon]

following stencils on the round i would say it is shell for the yugoslav version of the M1939 soviet automatic air defense gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37-mm_air-defense_gun_M1939_(61-K)#Ammunition

filling of the round on pic is 8:2 hexogen-aluminum , top cyrilic letters HAL20
round is produced in factory Sloboda in town Cacak in year 1975.

Thanks, I am familiar with that gun, I have two fired shell cases in 37x251SR calibre made in Russia.

 

[goran_croatia]

Some more ex-yugoslavian inert grenades from my collection,they were all made in 1991 in the factory "Progres" in Croatia for the croatian army.They had been "live" but all explosive components were removed from them and now they are inert.I sent yesterday Lex their pics and detail descriptions to put them on his website.





Note that the last one of them was originally painted in the factory in 3-colour camouflage scheme(dark-green,light-yellow and brown colour).

 

[Grenadier]

Hello,
I wonder, why making of such steel or cast iron hgrenades would be easier instead of cast plastic with balls... Inertia of thinking or?

 

[goran_croatia]

Because that was at the beginning of the war,for making plastic grenades factories needed a matrix grenade body and a matrix for internal plastic liner with steel balls.They needed time to make that because all factories in Croatia had been just making civil products before the war,not the military one.For the metal body grenades they needed just steel pipes and machines for making external fragmentation.And that was available in almost every factory.Metal body grenades were made localy as fast as possible,because croatian and bosnian army didn't have grenades,so they needed them in 1991 as soon as possible.But in the second half of 1991 and after,factories in croatia and bosnia,who had been making civil products before the war, developed matrixes for plastic body grenades.