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Old 06-25-2019, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by nuke11 View Post
What information source(s) do you have for the HG85? It doesn't seem to match any of the published information I have from many different Jane's Infantry books I have looked thru.
The sources I found are below. The last one contains scans of the HG 85 manual, though it is in German:

http://www.weaponsystems.net/weapons...1+-+HG+85.html
https://www.militaryfactory.com/smal...allarms_id=435
https://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/europ...g85uehg85.html

The filler may just be TNT, though the sources conflict on this point. Since I put up those specs above, I have found a source that claims the fragmentation liner is composed of 3mm balls, which is very close to what I calculated.
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