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Developed in 1913 by germany, the Kugelhandgranate mod. 1913 was a spherical shaped and segmented design, intended to produce between 70 and 80 fragments. A… The French while lacking in production and use of hand grenades, were not lacking in the point of creativity. They used an assortment of different… The F-1 grenade was first put into mass production by the French State in 1915. In May 1915 the first of the F1 grenades (fusante… As resources for Germany stretched thin later in the war, an easier to produce: Kugelhandgranate mod. 1915 was introduced and used from then onwards. The first truly safe (for the person throwing it) British hand grenade was the Mills bomb, invented by English William Mills in 1915. This was… Also known as the “VB grenade”, this was an infantry weapon in use with the French Army from 1916 onwards. This type of grenade was… Mk. IA1 was a variant of the MK. I and was briefly produced during World War I mainly for the purpose of training soldiers how… During the war, America lacked a fragmentation grenade of their own production. So in 1917, they came up with the MK 1. This was a… The Mk 2 grenade (initially known as the Mk II) is a fragmentation type hand grenade introduced by the US in 1918. It was the… In March, 1918, The US released the first version of the MK3 hand grenade. This grenade is a cylindrical concussion(HE) grenade designed to deal damage…
1913 – Kugelhandgranate
1914 – Beginning of the war
1915 – F-1(fusante No. 1)
1915 – Kugelhandgranate
1915 – Mills Bomb
1916 – Viven-Bessières grenade
1917 – MK IA1
1917- MK 1
1918 – MK 2
1918 – MK 3