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Grenade Weapons and Military Equipment

Browse 5 weapon systems and military equipment entries tagged Grenade, grouped by category with images, specifications, conflict context, and sources.

5 weapon systems

Drone-dropped fragmentation grenade, Improvised grenade-drop tactic using a commercial UAV, Aircraft & UAVs

Aircraft & UAVsDrone-dropped fragmentation grenadeImprovised grenade-drop tactic using a commercial UAVSide: HamasIsraelBuilt: DJI / Autel and other commercial drone makers / China / variousDrone-dropped fragmentation grenade is a field-adapted tactic that uses commercial quadcopters or similar small UAVs to release grenades onto exposed targets. Public reporting ties the method to Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack and later Israeli use in Gaza, making it a low-cost, short-range improvised strike method rather than a standardized grenade model.

SplHGR-80 hand grenade, Defensive fragmentation hand grenade, Infantry Weapons

Infantry WeaponsSplHGR-80 hand grenadeDefensive fragmentation hand grenadeSide: Boko Haram and ISWAPBuilt: Dynamit Nobel Wien / AustriaThe SplHGR-80 is an Austrian defensive fragmentation hand grenade with a plastic body, preformed steel-ball fragmentation, and a striker-release fuze. In the Boko Haram Insurgency archive it is treated cautiously as recovered or held insurgent materiel, based on Lake Chad basin weapons reporting rather than a documented single battlefield use.

Fragmentation hand grenade, Hand grenade, Infantry Weapons

Infantry WeaponsFragmentation hand grenadeHand grenadeSide: HamasPhilippine government forcesBoko Haram and ISWAPFARC dissident groupsKurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)Islamic State Sinai ProvinceBuilt: Various manufacturers / Multiple countriesFragmentation hand grenades are compact anti-personnel explosives that split their casing into lethal fragments after a short delay. They are documented in close-quarters fighting and insurgent stocks, including Hamas grenade attacks during the Israel-Hamas War, Philippine government clearing efforts in Marawi, hand grenades recovered from Boko Haram hideouts in northeast Nigeria, and direct grenade use by FARC dissidents, the PKK, and Sinai militants after 2015.

SHG-60 hand grenade, Defensive fragmentation hand grenade, Munitions

MunitionsSHG-60 hand grenadeDefensive fragmentation hand grenadeSide: Boko Haram and ISWAPBuilt: Unknown / AustriaThe SHG-60 is an Austrian defensive fragmentation hand grenade with a plastic body, embedded steel balls, and a striker-release fuze, documented in reporting on materiel in service with or recovered from Boko Haram factions in the Lake Chad basin.

Locally manufactured grenade, Improvised grenade, Munitions

MunitionsLocally manufactured grenadeImprovised grenadeSide: UnknownBuilt: Unknown local fabricators / NigeriaLocally manufactured grenade is the wording used in Nigerian reporting for a grenade payload carried by armed drones during the 24 December 2024 Wajiroko attack in Borno State. The reporting does not identify a specific factory model, so the entry treats it as a locally fabricated improvised grenade rather than a standardized grenade family.