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Spanish grenade?
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Francesco_Dif
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Yes, spanish
It is like a prototype grenade from the spanish Jos Mena y Vieyra de Abreu.
It is like a prototype grenade from the spanish Jos Mena y Vieyra de Abreu.
paul the grenade
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VERY NICE! :tinysmile_grin_t:
Francesco_Dif
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it is the name of the inventor.
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José Mena y Vieyra de Abreu was a colonel of th Spanish Army, ordnance engineer, with a lot of patents and a insteresting system to mantain the detonator outside the main charge of the grenade, in such a way that the accidental explosion of the charge is not possible.
This is the system for the argentinian grenade FMK2.
But, I never saw this grenade in Spain. And the Mena's prototypes are more conventional looking (his desings started in 1960's,I think, and this one looks as 1930's)
This is the system for the argentinian grenade FMK2.
But, I never saw this grenade in Spain. And the Mena's prototypes are more conventional looking (his desings started in 1960's,I think, and this one looks as 1930's)