A little over a decade ago, an innovative grenade was created in Switzerland, which was not destined to go into service. This is because immediately after the tests it was decided to ban it as "extremely inhumane". The new weapon came under the UN restrictive conventions. It's time to figure out what was so frightening in a fairly familiar fragmentation grenade.
A leading arms manufacturer or powerful military power are the last things Switzerland is associated with in the minds of modern people. However, everything is in order with the army and with the development of weapons in the Alpine state. And the Swiss, as practice shows, know how to fight just as well as their neighbors. Although it was a very long time ago, one cannot help but recall that it was Switzerland at the end of the Middle Ages that gave the Old World the best mercenary corporation represented by famous Swiss Landsknechts (the same legendary pikemen who never left the battlefield without an order, or unless the entire army had already fled).
But back to the development and production of weapons. There are “creative” engineers in Switzerland. It was they who at one time created the HG 85 hand grenade, which everyone has seen at least once in Hollywood films. The grenade is produced by RUAG Ammotec directly in the Alpine country. And in 2008, local engineers decided that the standard HG 85 was not effective enough and began to experiment with the design.
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Probably, the designers remembered that one of the worst wounds can be done with an ordinary needle for sewing. So they came up with the idea to cover HG 85 with small tungsten balls in the amount of 300-350 pieces. Although small balls look harmless enough at first glance, at the moment of explosion they turn into simply monstrous thing: they pierce clothes and equipment, pierce deeply into the flesh of a person, injure him and with a high degree of probability kill.
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True, in the "creative impulse" Swiss engineers (sounds almost like "British scientists") overdid it. The updated experimental model HG 85 turned out to be too deadly and immediately fell under the influence of several prohibitive UN conventions regarding infantry weapons. In addition, it has proven extremely expensive to coat grenades with tungsten balls. However, as an experiment, the experience with HG 85 is invaluable. Who knows, maybe on the moon people will find tungsten mines of aliens and there will be so much of this material that even the UN will revise its "standards".
If you want to know even more interesting things about weapons, then you should read about why does a german grenade look like a club and find out if she can really be hit in the head.
Source: https://novate.ru/blogs/060120/52987/