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Old 01-06-2020, 10:40 AM   #9
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: [HT] Grenades fuse

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Originally Posted by The Colonel View Post
...and not just in GURPS it must be said. As for unreliable fuses, according to Ian Hogg Japanese grenade fuses captured during WW2 were so variable that some of them were effectively on a 0 second delay … although other opinion thinks those may have been deliberately designed for booby trapping.
Did he include the part where the fuse had to be ignited by banging one end of the grenade on a hard surface? Or that sometimes the only hard surface available was the user's helmet?
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