Why would any one design an explosive weapon with the intention

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>>33227860
What? No. You pull a string fuse on the end and throw. Germans were just safety conscious and didn't want the soldier to hold the HE in their hand like everyone else. That's just supposition though, I have never researched stick grenades.

>>33227860
Yeah, nah, not actually the way it was used.

I kek'd though.

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>>33227952
They were used just like ours. Start the fuse then throw.

The handle is there to facilitate throwing. You could throw this thing a lot further than a US Pineapple. Although with a pineapple grenade you can actually rig up a sling to throw with and catch back up.

>>33227860
Man, it's almost like German's didn't have some strange sport where you throw a small ball and hit it with a bat, so they went with a stick to throw...

>>33227860
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Ullapool_Caber

>>33228132
"A sober man would throw it"

>>33227952
>>33227978
The Eihandgranate 39 was probably the most produced hand grenade in the Wehrmacht inventory. The stick grenades just look more iconic.

>>33229741
Stick nades were used in both WW1 an WW2, so I'm willing to bet that far mroe of them were produced
>but I said wehrmacht
yea yea I know

>>33229466
>germans
>sober

>>33227952
>Germans were just safety conscious and didn't want the soldier to hold the HE in their hand l
Where do people get garbage like this?