Neat to hear the perspective of someone more experienced, but there's at least one error in this:
> When a normal hand grenade explodes there will be a flash, a bang, some smoke and anyone within 30 meters (approx) will be hit by shrapnel and probably killed. Most grenades don't have enough explosive power to take down a whole building
Clearly a grenade is not going to kill people 30 meters away. The effective kill radius of the common M-67 grenade is 5 meters, and the casualty radius is 15 meters. Some shrapnel might fly 30 meters and hit someone, but they'd have to be really unlucky to die from it. Most grenades are barely thrown 30 meters. I assume the author meant 30 feet.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 16.8 ms ] thread> When a normal hand grenade explodes there will be a flash, a bang, some smoke and anyone within 30 meters (approx) will be hit by shrapnel and probably killed. Most grenades don't have enough explosive power to take down a whole building
Clearly a grenade is not going to kill people 30 meters away. The effective kill radius of the common M-67 grenade is 5 meters, and the casualty radius is 15 meters. Some shrapnel might fly 30 meters and hit someone, but they'd have to be really unlucky to die from it. Most grenades are barely thrown 30 meters. I assume the author meant 30 feet.