Flashbangs dont just blind and deafen you, the bang is so loud, it will also temporarily mess up liquid in inner ear causin you to loose balance. Combination of these 3 factors is very effective.

@duartesimoes508

9 ай бұрын

If my Daughter keeps insisting in disregarding the alarm clock, I will try one of these. 💣 😂

@graybeard7605

9 ай бұрын

@@duartesimoes508 uh I think that is a fantastic idea

@jackychang9148

9 ай бұрын

Lose*

@notwofie

9 ай бұрын

@@duartesimoes508 That might be abit of a overkill don't you think?

@duartesimoes508

9 ай бұрын

@@notwofie don't worry, I don't have such a grenade... but it is indeed extremely galling hearing her iPhone for more than fifteen minutes without a reaction... actually it wakes _me_ up!

The medical team, and everyone that was able to keep Kyle Carpenter alive should receive an award or recognition of some kind

@ryanupchurch9683

9 ай бұрын

I don’t think so. They would tell you they were just doing their job. ( source. Grandfather was a mash surgeon in Korea).

@kingnothing3523

9 ай бұрын

They should, but they probably won't because a lot of military medical personnel (barring medics/corpsmen with line units like infantry) do try to maintain the disposition of the quiet professional. "All I did was my job".

@sabbracadabra8367

9 ай бұрын

That award from Obama was awkward... Even a politician must find it hard to keep the focus on the heroism while putting a medal on a one eyed, one lung boy with a plastic face.

@tappajaav

8 ай бұрын

@@sabbracadabra8367 All of those permanent reminders of his heroism

@sabbracadabra8367

8 ай бұрын

@@tappajaav I'm sure that will help him through many sleepless, lungless nights.

That one Marine who jumped in front of the grenade to protect his fellow Marine, what a story. Glad he survived!

@kitkat47chrysalis95

9 ай бұрын

if a 1944 german soldier does something heroic and sacrifices himself to save his comrades... it still doesnt change the fact that he works for an evil country that does evil things. Pendos deserve nothing.

@rohankishibe8259

9 ай бұрын

Glad he survived and sad how he was just a terrorist invading and doing the dirty work for soft hands politicians.

@petesheppard1709

9 ай бұрын

Soldiers have sacrificed themselves like this many times. Survival is rare.

@stupitdog9686

9 ай бұрын

Krazy!! As an ex-Royal Navy Special Forces Oaf I would have thrown my "fellow operative" onto the grenade & legged it like a long dog .......!

@mm3mm3

8 ай бұрын

I wonder how many times they don’t survive?

Fun fact about the Russian soldier at 3:40, he was wounded but survived and made a full recovery, and even did an interview about his actions from the hospital bed. That grenade was not the only one he threw away from himself that day. Edit: Too long ago that I don't remember if his hospital bed video was as a POW or not

@DeusGladiorum

9 ай бұрын

Found his name: “Alexei S.” of the 138th guards motorized brigade, but can’t seem to find anything about him surrendering anywhere?

@poopyickydoodooobama09

9 ай бұрын

in that video he threw 4 back and then ran

@setituptoblowitup

9 ай бұрын

Badass👊❤️‍🔥

@Uncle228

9 ай бұрын

That drone operator was wasting so much grenades on one wounded soldier

@catherineharris4746

9 ай бұрын

A brave man!👍

I always keep forgetting about thermite grenades, such an interesting design and use honestly. Excellent video again!

@brs690

9 ай бұрын

As a late gwot vet I can 100% say we didn't have any frags only smoke and incendiary. Too many assholes threw frags into flocks of sheep 🐑 creating more enemies so they just banned them in Iraq altogether except sf guys, they threw them in the test fire pit regularly.

@vorelordjr9019

9 ай бұрын

In case you're wondering no do not hold a thermite grenade I've made that mistake it is not a good idea😢

@coltyt9529

9 ай бұрын

@@vorelordjr9019 me throwing a thermite for them to stick on enemy in MW2019:

@dianapennepacker6854

9 ай бұрын

If you really want to pull a great prank. Get a termite grenade, some instant crazy strong glue, and shove it down someone's pants! Haha it is such great fun watching them squirm. Just be careful of the fumes thats all. Don't want to get cancer!

@robertoroberto9798

9 ай бұрын

@@dianapennepacker6854and these funny people who wear black and blue would spawn out of nowhere and play chase with you!

The RPG explanation was extremely interesting to me. I didn’t know they had such a specific design.

@candiman4243

9 ай бұрын

Also, RPG doesn't stand for rocket propelled grenade. That's just a convenient backcronym for the actual name which in Russian means something like antitank grenade

@ardoporkkropodra2474

9 ай бұрын

we were all 11 at one time

@steelnail1917

9 ай бұрын

​@lucabaki reactive armour works better especially the 3rd generation one

@basiwolf9147

9 ай бұрын

Idk why he didn't mention frag rpg rounds

@rajatdani619

9 ай бұрын

So u have no idea how Hesh round works. And what is shape charge..hmm

Was a Ammunition specialist in the Army. Spent one summer getting rid of law rockets and countless Grenades. EOD was not available. I spent 2 weeks shooting law rockets. And another 2 weeks doing old grenades. Was pretty fun…..

@harrypeterson9287

8 ай бұрын

@@ugh55 How brainwashed are you??? We've spent more on Ukraine in the past year than the actual entirety of the war in Afghanistan that went on for decades... Not only is this not our fight, not only are we already in an economic depression, not only are we helping prolong a pointless fight. We are proxy aggressors pushing the buttons of WWIII. We could have housed, fed and given a brand new car to every person in OUR COUNTRY with that money. Use your brain.

@bernardrizzo8305

7 ай бұрын

I am jealous beyond compare.

@Terraqueo22

5 ай бұрын

It was Fun but Dangerous... Every nade you pulled the pin was a Gamble... Old stuff tends to malfunction

"How the british SAS burned down the Iranian embassy with a grenade... ... ... ...by mistake." That pause really made it funny! :⁠-⁠D

just a quick comment about Kyle Carpenter: he attended my same university (Uuniversity of South Carolina), and we celebrated him several times at our football stadium on gameday throughout my time there as a student. It was amazing to be a part of, God bless him!

Grenades are ,,bombastic"

@jamdowngamezone5130

9 ай бұрын

Pin and heart this guy’s comment, it is GREAT

@Alex-0908

9 ай бұрын

Yas

@timogeerties3487

9 ай бұрын

"Super fantastic"

@gustavoraffo489

9 ай бұрын

Mr. Boombastic🎙️🎧

@francis9154

9 ай бұрын

“I need more grenades!”

One type of grenade that was forgotten is the rifle grenade which, in its original form, was attached to and fired from the barrel of a rifle. Modern rifle grenades are fired from dedicated launchers that are slung under the barrel of rifles. He also forgot about stand alone grenade launchers the old M70 "bloop gun" and the Mk. 19 full automatic grenade launcher, and the Milkor grenade launcher used by the US Marine Corps.

@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM

9 ай бұрын

And the M32!

@xadrikxaulxu

9 ай бұрын

Also the Chinese have an Automatic Grenade Launcher

@Vorpal_Wit

9 ай бұрын

The video also seems to think that RPGs only fire anti-tank rounds but they also fire dedicated HE/AP rounds as well.

@JWQweqOPDH

9 ай бұрын

This video isn't about grenade launchers, but grenades. He just brought up the RPG-7 in order to clarify how they're different and because such anti-tank rockets largely replaced the use of anti-tank hand grenades.

@Galaxy-oy4nj

9 ай бұрын

​​@@xadrikxaulxuthe Russians have them as well, the AGS series launchers are full auto. Most modern is the AGS-30. It weights about 20 kg.

at 4:43 That clip is actually from where I live, Evansville Indiana. Funny thing is, that was the swat team conducting a house raid, but it turned out to be the WRONG HOUSE! They flashbanged a child in the process, I believe it turned out to be the neighbors to the house they were actually trying to raid. EPD's finest! 😂

@Blueskies2513

4 ай бұрын

Damn 😮

@RUGER5264

Ай бұрын

Crazy 😮

1:41 "the man should not be alive today" "GET HIM!"

I encountered one in Vietnam where it took 2 of us to pull the pin out as I wasn't able to move it on my own. I saw another coming at me and dropped down behind sandbags to have it go off inches from my left ear. Even though I was safe behind the sandbags, my hearing has been terribly affected since that day in 1969. Those things are so loud!

@sultanarajia3689

7 ай бұрын

Dang, I didn't know grandpas existed on KZread. But still it's a dang crazy thing that happened Also was it about a flashbanf?

@diggerrob6356

7 ай бұрын

Ha! Not only that, but I’m a Great Grandpa, you cheeky bugger! No it was a fragmentation grenade.

@sultanarajia3689

7 ай бұрын

@@diggerrob6356 oh zamn

@KaitoXsv

7 ай бұрын

@@sultanarajia3689 YEE

@tam-tam7098

4 ай бұрын

@@diggerrob6356 Sorry for the super late comment, but I noticed your username is digger. Are you an Australian?

Can't wait to see the plasma grenade from Halo explored.

@DChrls

9 ай бұрын

Or a Singularity grenade from Borderlands 2 and also used in a show I saw. Can't remember the name of it though.

@jbrou123

3 ай бұрын

@@DChrls Wasn't that in one of the Star Trek movies where it swallowed up a whole planet?

@elultimo102

3 ай бұрын

What about "Hush-a-boom," the silent explosive? (OK it was on Rocky & Bullwinkle, but an interesting, if impossible idea).

The flashbangs ones are a real showstopper. Absolutely harmless and a great party prop, yesterday i threw one in a room full of kids and they all started doing the worm dance

@Yuki_Ika7

9 ай бұрын

Lol, that is messed up but funny in a messed up way, hopefully this is a joke

@ryanpayne7707

9 ай бұрын

Where did you get a legit flashbang?

@russellmoore8187

9 ай бұрын

@@ryanpayne7707 He didn't, there's no penalty for lying in a youtube comment

0:22 Cave Johnson used combustible lemons! It was super effective!

Fun fact - the fuses used in ww2 greatness generally had longer time from activation to detonation. So throwing them back would be more likely- some are still used in modern wars like Ukraine (look out for yellow frag grenades, a relic of early ww2, also used in Ukraine)

@KaitoXsv

7 ай бұрын

CHU

Excellent video! Thanks.

So many details! Great video.

The drone dropped grande in the video was not a timer triggered grenade but a impact acivated one. So he had all of the time in den day to trow it away.

@wirb3859

9 ай бұрын

Dang he got really lucky, but i think I remember this was the summer of last year so now he is either captured, dead, or out of service

@oliverbrown3961

9 ай бұрын

@@wirb3859 another comment mentioned he was injured and taken captive

@chesterhiggens

9 ай бұрын

@@wirb3859what do you mean Russia is slaughtering ukraine.

@skibur848

9 ай бұрын

@@chesterhiggenswhat are you even on about

@peterroe2993

8 ай бұрын

​@@chesterhiggens"say the line vatnic".

I remember watching the SAS raid on the Iranian Embassy on TV. It happened during a live broadcast during the evening and was a big deal. Margret Thatcher gave the order. Two years later the Argentine junta had forgotten this and foolishly thought they could invade the Falkland Islands and Thatcher wouldn’t bother to do anything about it.

@sunnymodi4496

9 ай бұрын

Wasn't Falklands island originally Argentine territory? Wasn't The Junta supported by CIA ? Wasn't the UK back than more powerful than now ? Wasn't Argentina a very poor and backward country ? Does a ant last against an Anteater ?

@johanmetreus1268

9 ай бұрын

Oh, they thought she'd bother, they just didn't she'd had much she *could* do about it with the Royal navy a hollow shell of its former self.

@m-h1217

9 ай бұрын

There's no comparison to be made between an active hostage situation in the capital with 26 hostages in an embassy, to the territory of a far away island with pretty much nothing on it. How would the no brainer of acting in the first situation ever affect an assessment in the latter?

@markedis5902

9 ай бұрын

I watched it live on the BBC and I remember the Falklands war well. Thatcher’s Britain was not much fun to live in due to tax and her government killing the coal industry but in hindsight she certainly took no shit. We could probably do with someone similar again.

@johanmetreus1268

9 ай бұрын

@@markedis5902 Like dear ol' Boris? ;)

Another awesome video thanks. I've been learning about grenades since I was a kid. Your video taught me several things I'd never heard about grenades before. Great job.

This video really blew my mind

04:05 The German DM51 would be an example of a multipurpose hand grenade. You can use it with the sleeve for fragmentation effect or as an offensive hand grenade without the sleeve. Germany sent 100.000 of them to Ukraine in 2022.

@rajatdani619

9 ай бұрын

Were those WW1 Grenades sended to Ukraine?😢

@HingerlAlois

9 ай бұрын

@@rajatdani619 No, modern hand grenades produced around 2004-2005.

@ParasocialCatgirl

9 ай бұрын

​@@rajatdani619You're thinking of the Stielhandgranate

@duartesimoes508

9 ай бұрын

Those sleeves are pretty common. I own a deact of an offensive grenade with a coil sleeve, manufactured in Portugal in the sixties. In this model the coil cannot be removed anymore.

Very clear information. Thanks!

very good video as always

Grenades are very interesting. Got to throw a couple live frags in training and that was really exciting. The blasts are shockingly powerful - incredibly loud that you feel them in your chest even from a hundred yards away. Been fairly close to flashbangs too, and experienced CS gas grenades in an enclosed space. Seen an incendiary melt through an armored vehicle in a demonstration, those are scary. M14 TH3 grenades burn over 4000 degrees F

@castleanthrax1833

8 ай бұрын

Saw*

@TheLastArbiter

8 ай бұрын

@@castleanthrax1833 boo hoo ain’t got no memo bout dis bein a grammar test

@castleanthrax1833

8 ай бұрын

@@TheLastArbiter If you want to sound like an uneducated drop-out whilst trying to make an informed comment, that's your choice.

@samuellinn

7 ай бұрын

​@@castleanthrax1833what a crybaby

@yfelwulf

7 ай бұрын

Used to stand on the Wood steps at the Infantry Centre the Grenade range was about 1km away you could feel the vibration in the steps. The old M26 only had 5oz of Comp N.

Here before this KZread channel goes viral

Amazing work and Amazing Grenades 💣

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 💣 Grenades come in various types for both offensive and defensive purposes, and they don't always create massive explosions like in movies. 00:56 🪖 Offensive grenades can be thrown farther than their kill radius and are used by assaulting troops, while most fragmentation grenades are defensive and release fragments upon detonation. 02:00 🏅 Corporal William Kyle Carpenter's heroic act of shielding a fellow Marine from a grenade blast earned him the Medal of Honor, despite severe injuries and numerous surgeries. 03:28 🧷 Pulling out a grenade pin with your teeth is nearly impossible due to the force required, and there's typically not enough time to throw back a grenade that has landed in front of you. 04:04 💥 Concussion grenades rely on shockwaves for damage and can be converted into fragmentation grenades, while stun grenades, like flashbangs, disorient enemies with light and sound. 05:06 🏢 A stun grenade used during a hostage situation accidentally caused a fire that severely damaged the Iranian Embassy in London during a rescue operation. 06:07 🦾 Modern anti-tank grenades use shaped charges to penetrate tank armor effectively, unlike traditional grenades. 07:09 🔥 Thermite grenades don't explode but burn at high temperatures, making them useful for destroying equipment or sabotaging the enemy's assets. 08:05 💨 Smoke grenades are used to mark areas, signal troops, or create smoke screens for concealment, and they no longer use White Phosphorus, which had more destructive properties. You are welcome

0:50 Ah yes, the Holy Hand Grenade.

@christopherwilson3242

3 ай бұрын

"Of Antioch!"

Very funny at the end, good stuff.

At last some good video on the subject. 👍🏻

Kyle Carpenter's interview on David Lettermen in 2014 was truly inspiring. He is a fucking GOAT.

@rohankishibe8259

9 ай бұрын

Glad he survived and sad how he was just a terrorist invading and doing the dirty work for soft hands politicians.

@coloradostrong

8 ай бұрын

🙄🙄

Until the spoon is released which ignites the fuse, the grenade is still inactive and can be made safe again by reinserting the safety pin. The pin is a split pin (or cotter pin), whose ends are spread to make pulling hard. If a grenade was 'prepared' by straightening the split end, the ring can be pulled with the teeth. Once the spoon is released, Mr Grenade is no longer your friend...Fuses are made to burn for about 5 seconds (usually) to give the soldier time to duck or get clear--sometimes this gives the target time to throw it clear. To prevent this, sometimes soldiers will 'cook' a grenade by releasing the spoon and letting the fuse burn for a few seconds before throwing, and hope that the fuse isn't short...

@the_once-and-future_king.

9 ай бұрын

Cooking is seriously discouraged. Once that spoon pings you yeet that thing as far away from yourself as possible. You don't take unnecessary risks with something manufactured by the lowest bidder!

@petesheppard1709

9 ай бұрын

@@the_once-and-future_king. Absolutely! Even though the 'lowest bid' still has to meet spec, all it takes is one...

@the_once-and-future_king.

9 ай бұрын

@petesheppard1709 Yep. All it takes is Minimum Wage Walter to be having a bad day and...

@kirkstinson7316

9 ай бұрын

​@@the_once-and-future_king. Used to do it. In the late 80s they still taught it for bunker attack in the US army

@benb9151

8 ай бұрын

In an intense situation I wouldn't rely on my perception of time and give myself "2 or 3" seconds, I would just chuck it

Thank you for sharing

You know its a good day when Not what you think uploads

1:52 *The man thought he was Captain America*

Great Video Presentation.

Fun fact: Helen Keller was completely immune to flashbang grenades.

@AbdulRahman-bi1nu

9 ай бұрын

How

@frustationoverloaded5976

9 ай бұрын

​@@AbdulRahman-bi1nushe was deaf and blind 😂

@scottgalbraith7461

9 ай бұрын

What about the effect of concussion?

@killgaet6253

9 ай бұрын

@@scottgalbraith7461 she's built different.

@scottgalbraith7461

9 ай бұрын

@@killgaet6253 she still breathes with lungs.

The explosion of an m67 is very powerful. You can be 100 meters away behind an armored wall and it will still shake the ground around you

@tawhid8125

9 ай бұрын

Looks like another myth 100 meters is pretty long distance

@dELTA13579111315

9 ай бұрын

​@@tawhid8125you know what else is long

@beendanako

9 ай бұрын

There's a dirty minded among us

@juntingiee2602

9 ай бұрын

@@beendanako among us? sus?

@dennisyoung4631

9 ай бұрын

Yes, ~ 7 ounces of Composition B. That means a *hefty* bang to those things!

Another great video.

Well done as always. Love your little jokes lol so well done thank you it’s definitely not what I thought

Theres actually a video out there someone i see a while ago of a Ukrainian holding a final defensive position against a load of Russians attacking his trench and he manages to throw back a few grenades that landed in his trench before obviously being over ran eventually.

I believe that the video at 7:27 is the impact of depleted uranium 30mm rounds from an gau-8 avenger cannon. Not thermite

Such an essential topic but at last we got a comprehensive video.

Great channel great video

You misunderstood the breaking bad part. Walter didn't claim the German gun was destroyed by thermite. He said thermite could open up a vault that the Gustav couldn't penetrate.

@godwarrior3403

9 ай бұрын

Looks like you misunderstood it.

@godwarrior3403

9 ай бұрын

Looks like he also misunderstood it though. Walt didn't say thermite DID destroy it, he said it could. Because Jesse doubted the effectiveness. The Gustav was the biggest gun in the world though and Walt was a genius and Vince likes to keep things realistic. He absolutely never suggested the Gustav couldn't penetrate the locks they were going to burn through.

@NotWhatYouThink

8 ай бұрын

@@godwarrior3403 it indeed looks like we misunderstood it. Walt was talking about a hypothetical situation. Oh well ...

I talked with a man that served in Korea as an Army Rifleman he said the Chinese had what seemed like unlimited Grenades, every Chinese Soldier carried 5 or 6 or more Grenades, and they could throw them like baseballs, he explained to me that some Chinese Soldiers only carried grenades, and they were the best at heaving grenades, he said they lost several men in his platoon to Grenades...and some times it seemed like it was raining grenades...!

Wow, this video was hella interesting

Dude, very cool

Boom

@fridaycaliforniaa236

9 ай бұрын

Kaboom

@dermittelfinger5903

9 ай бұрын

@@fridaycaliforniaa236 Car boom in Baghdad.

Did we skip thermobaric grenades?

your videos are great !

Great video...👍

Excellent

Funnily enough today I've seen a video of a grande thorn by a Russian soldier, which bounced back form the tree he caught and threw it away for the 2nd time.

@steelnail1917

9 ай бұрын

The grenade could have landed to the positions of his nearby personal but this guy was lucky to deflect it

@TJ24050

5 ай бұрын

I saw that video too. Dude was lucky he caught it.

3:50 Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig

@DevDylan

9 ай бұрын

I was just about to comment about that! Quite the crazy battle

Great video

Kyle Carpenter is a hell of a man and Marine!

Thanks ... you reminded me to hit Like!

Oh man what movie is that at 3:00?! I definitely want to see it

What about thermobaric grenades?

Thanks for the information, now i can be confident when playing Tarkov on Factory

ok, that was cool. at the end when he said "like button" my like button lit up.

3:33 the Russian soldier seems more annoyed than scared by the grenade.

If cost is no consideration, it might be fun to throw grenades in a controlled environment. But, since that isn't a very realistic possibility for me, I'm okay with living a life without grenades. Still, it's an interesting topic.

@mikewedge808

8 ай бұрын

You could always ask Uncle Sam! It's part of an 8 week course where you get to fire M4s, M249s and M240Bs. You also get physically fit too!

@TJ24050

5 ай бұрын

The US M67 actually costs about 4$ per grenade.

Great to see the Beast of War reference at 1:20

honestly the more i know about military history the more docs and PJs blow my mind..

2:31 I can feel his eternal pain in his face. He probably still is in pain to this day. Would letting him live in constant pain would be just as cruel than letting him pass?

@nathansmith3608

9 ай бұрын

I'm sure he qualifies for the 'good stuff' when it comes to pain pills & he still has mobility & vision. Letting him die would have been a lot worse IMO. Anyway, they didn't take that option off the table, they just put the choice to live back in his hands, which seems like the right thing to do

@rohankishibe8259

9 ай бұрын

Glad he survived and sad how he was just a terrorist invading and doing the dirty work for soft hands politicians.

@elultimo102

3 ай бұрын

The worst part is losing an eye IMHO, but has his limbs.

I didn't realize that all these explosives were considered a grenade. Thanks for the info.

nice video

To be fair, like a blank round, if a flashbang explodes right next to your face, it could kill. And it has happened before. Same with accidentally keeping it in your hand when it explodes; It will take your hand.

the flash of the like button there was a nice touch

... and they make an ideal Christmas gift !

The timing variation for denotation for most common grenades like 4 to 7 seconds so if you lucky that the soldier throw the grenade threw it a short distance and it is 7 seconds to explode then you could throw it back.

3:35 There is multipe veteran that told US press in second and first world war that they thrown back grenades. So thanks for the semi-wrong info

I love it, it goes boom boom, very good 👍🏻

double tap skills are on point

04:18 He wanted to knock on the door, but changed his mind in time.

Thanks

with 0.5 seconds left, I liked the video.

I like the question at the end.

Flash bangs usually contain about 8-12 grams of confined flash powder depending on the model. Inside of a room they will basically stun-lock anyone subjected to the blast. Even with hearing protection the concussions alone is enough to lock you up.

Molotov cocktail isn’t technically a grenade, but is worth a mention. Also, throwing a thermite grenade at the enemy will be pretty brutal for them

You forgot to cover plasma grenades. Nice video!

Another SAS & grenade story for you. One day Princess Diana appeared with a new haircut that surprised the adoring media. Why ? Well all senior royals have anti-terror / hostage training with the SAS, and on her session an errant stun grenade spark landed on her hair and partially burnt some of it. No actual injury to her, just an emergency appointment with her hairdresser.

Nice work

i hit the like button before i watch

The gurgling sound a person makes after absorbing the blast of a M67 fragmentation grenade is something that will never leave you.

Cool

Thanks, that was very informative and entertaining as are all your vids! I do love your accent and syntax, I sincerely hope you'r a real guy and not AI!

Respect, Carpenter.

Видео просто *огонь. Оно взорвалось* в мои рекомендации.

I like the V40. About the size of a golf ball, it's really cute: while it clears a room.

1:20 Anytime Beast of War is referenced, have to give a thumbs up.

Thermite is easy to make. I won't explain more, but if you want to know more, look it up. There's plenty online about it, and various videos on YT about it.

@TheRedOGRE

8 ай бұрын

Glowie

I always get a kick out of the fact that the standard smoke grenades used by the US are the M83 white smoke grenade and M18 colored smoke grenade both of which date (in original form) to 1942. Sometimes what works just works.

7:37 Actually, Walt only uses the Gustav Gun as an example, not an actual event! He said if you drop a Commando in with a bag of thermite, it would melt through 4 inches of solid steel and destroy that gun forever.