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Unusal grenade

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weberoed

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If you were to find this what would you say it is? A toy? A fake attempt? No this is the MILES grenade used in training, when it goes off it send out electrical beam to the receivers the soldier wears, if the sensor is hit the miles harness the soldier is wearing goes off telling him he has been hit. Still trying to find the manual for it

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Not sure that there ever was a manual for it. Not exactly a beam, they took a special flash bulb that went in through an opening on the side. I have an earlier version as well that was amber in color and slightly different in design. They were never intended to be thrown, but were part of a series of munitions (one mine, three submunitions and this grenade) that were used at the Desert Training Center (Ft. Irwin) to teach soldiers about the dangers of picing up items on the battlefield. Unfortunately the program was a failure in that the items were expensive, it was easy to forget where they had been set, and the soldier that "failed" was just as likely to pocket the item and walk off with it. Eventually the bulk of the items were gathered up and turned over to FT. Irwin's EOD Team for destruction, which took place in 1997.
 
interesting, found the patent for it. supposedly they had a PDM version but that is just word of mouth. I'll check the with the guy who posted it and see where he got this pic and if he has any more info
 
PDM isn't word of mouth, one was recovered by LE in the mid-west a few years back. The techs the spoke to insisted that there was only a live version of the PDM and nothing else was ever made. I was tasked with providing them the info to de-bunk that. I also enhanced the photo of the one that they had recovered to show the "Energizer" battery that was being used in the training aid.
 
The M74 submunition, the early (L) and late versions of the Rockeye (MK118) submunition, the M42 submunition version and the late and early (R) grenades.

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