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Multi-Mode Hand Grenades Handed Over To Indian Army

Multi-Mode Hand Grenades Handed Over To Indian Army

  • Indian Army has received the first consignment of Multi-Mode Hand Grenades (MMHG), manufactured by Nagpur-based ammunition firm Economic Explosives Limited (EEL).
  • The grenades have been made following Transfer of Technology from Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO).
  • The subsidiary of Solar Industries India Limited was awarded the Rs 400 crore contract of manufacturing 10 lakh grenades for the Indian Army and Indian Air Force.

Multi-mode grenades

  • The first batch of indigenous Multi-Mode Hand Grenades (MMHG) will replace British era vintage Grenade No 36 of World War I.
  • The first consignment consists of 40,000 made-in-India grenades and other deliveries will be made over the span of the next two years.
  • The advanced grenade has dual-mode – defensive and offensive.
  • In the offensive mode, the grenade doesn’t have a fragment sleeve and is used for low-intensity attacks as it offers stunning effects.
  • The mode is used when the soldier targets the attack within five meters from the point of burst.
  • In defensive mode, the grenade is assembled with its fragmenting sleeve.
  • This mode of the grenade is used when the soldier is in the shelter and the enemy is in the open area.
  • Its lethal radius has a capacity to target eight meters from the point of burst.

Salient features of the grenade

  1. Grenade comes with twin delay tubes to ensure high reliability.
  2. Minimum 0.5 second arming delay for the safety of soldiers.
  3. 3,800 unique fragmentation patterns for a deep penetration attack.

Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory

  • TBRL is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under Ministry of Defence.
  • Located in Chandigarh, the laboratory is one of the major DRDO labs in the field of armament studies.
  • It is actively involved in:
  1. Development, production, processing and characterisation of different high explosive compositions
  2. Lethality and Fragmentation studies of warheads, shells and other ammunitions
  3. Captive flight testing of Bombs
  4. Missiles and Airborne systems
  5. Ballistics evaluation of various protective system like body armour etc.

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