[CDAT]

Originally Posted by Homer

Anecdotally AN-M14 TH3 thermite grenades get issued to the staff sections, artillery, and some other sensitive assets (IEW, Signal, etc) and aren’t as widespread on the line. Captured equipment normally gets blown in place with demo, put on a curb and run over with a track, or smashed/cut. Thermite may be issued to demo teams for a specific operation (air assault raid), or used as part of specialized demo (field flame expedients, dust initiator charges, etc). It’s a two pound grenade, so more likely to be set in place or tossed/dropped than thrown in the classic manner.

In a game, it’s a good piece of specialty kit to issue PCs in when they are assigned to destroy artillery or other high value equipment, or to add as part of a vehicle’s initial kit. I can see 5ID using thermite to destroy at least immobilized vehicles before attempting their breakout attempt from Kalisz.

Thermite grenades are not made to to be thrown, they are supposed to be placed (or carefully dropped a short distance).