Showing posts with label Grenade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grenade. Show all posts

Monday, November 3, 2008

I got you...



in my sights.

This is a M15 Grenade launcher sight, leftover from WWII. A good idea in principle, although reportedly not the best invention in practice...the link tells the tale.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Don't worry, it's INERT

This old thing is exactly what it looks like. It's a hand grenade. It's from WWII. It's Japanese. It's a Type 97 fragmentation grenade. It's unused (duh!). It's also inert.




















There is a sticker with Kanji on the bottom, but I can't read it. Can you?


Anyway, I always flash back to that scene in that old movie Private Benjamin, wherein the drill instructor says something like the following during basic training:

"Beware... there are mine fields out there. Most of them are inert. However, some of them are ert."

Hysterical.