Timeline for Is the Cobra 80 fire cracker "three to four times as powerful" as a hand grenade?
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| Jul 13, 2023 at 21:17 | comment | added | EarlGrey | An assault grenade is in general a smaller grenade than a defensive grenade. The defensive grenade can be thrown from a shieltered position, while you are assaulting instead you (or your commiltones) may have only precarious shielding. | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 12:13 | answer | added | EarlGrey | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 17:25 | comment | added | Nobody | @jjack I didn't mean to deny that (although I guess strictly speaking I did), what I meant is that you need much more explosive power without a hard shell to have the same amount of damage. I'm no expert (which is why I'm only commenting) but I think a splinter grenade in a crowd will severely injure maybe 10 people, while the same amount of explosives in wrapping paper will burn maybe 2-3 at most and probably not mortally. But if you have a nice link explaining why I'm wrong I would be glad to learn. | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 16:33 | comment | added | jjack | @Nobody No, the blast itself of course can be deadly too! | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 16:08 | comment | added | jjack | Maybe the police just picked the Dutch standard hand grenade for their comparison, as it is in use with the military? | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 14:52 | comment | added | Nobody | Just arguing power is probably beside the point - grenades are deadly because of the metal case which splinters. Maybe someone could incorporate that into an answer? | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 17:15 | answer | added | oerkelens | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 0:43 | comment | added | Sklivvz | I've had to nuke two answers because they were theoretical. Please cite some experts and focus any answer on the facts. We care very little whether A is 2.5 times more than B or 3 to 4 times. What we care about is what that difference actually means: e.g. are the numbers comparable at all? | |
| Dec 24, 2017 at 0:09 | history | edited | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Oops, silly typo
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| Dec 23, 2017 at 21:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/944674441077850112 | ||
| Dec 23, 2017 at 19:43 | history | asked | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |