In the news today there was a story about a guy who got sentenced for throwing a grenade at the president. The grenade came within 50 meters of him but was a dud. If the grenade went off would he have been hurt? What is the effective range of grenades?
I don’t know the effective range of a grenade, but 50 meters is about 164 feet, or about 55 yards.
Wasn’t that a dummy?
According to the America’s Army computer game (which the Army claims is reasonably realistic), the hand grenade used by US troops has, IIRC a 15 meter blast radius, with half of that being the “Kill Zone” where nobody standing in the open is expected to survive. That said, I don’t know what sort of grenade this fellow was throwing, and they do probably come in all sorts of sizes and shapes, with different effects.
Pardon me. Soviet “engineering grenade,” in “inactive” mode.
Dangerous enough but not at a distance.
Nobody really knows how close he got to it. It was found in the crowd. Likely the blast would have been absorbed by onlookers, if it went off.
I’m making a poor showing today.
So quite a distance . (Although certainly closer than I would care to be to the concussion – and I suppose there’s a chance that someone’s car-keys or bones or whatnot could have been propelled into his face.)