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MILITARY TRAAINING ESTABLISHMENT OF ZAMBIA

INFANTRY TRAINING WING
SKILL AT ARMS CELL

SUBJECT: 36 HAND GRENADE

LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION AND PREPARATION BEFORE PRIMING

AIM

1. To teach the recognition and preparation for use of the 36 hand grenade.

APPROACH

2. a. The grenade is an anti-personnel type.

b. On explosion, it may kill or wound up to 18. 20 metres (20 yards) from
the point of explosion; when exploding on hard ground without distraction,
casualties may be inflicted up to 227.50 metres (250 yards).
c. It is most useful when dealing with enemies in slit trenches, dugouts and
buildings.
d. It is also useful in close quarter fighting, but there is always a risk, in the
open, of causing casualties to ones own side.
e. Before throwing a grenade, ensure that all members of your group are in
proper cover or lying down

DESCRIPTION

3. a. It has a grooved iron cast body filled with high explosives (HE).
b. The grooves assist in complete break up of the on explosion.
c. In the centre, it has two (02) sleeves, the middle one for the striker and
spring and the other one for the detonator.
d. The striker and the spring are held in position by the lever which is fitted
into the striker slot.
e. The lever is secured to the grenade by the safety pin which passes over it
and through the holes on the shoulders of the grenade.
f. The grenade weighs 0.6804 kilograms (1.5 lbs).

RECOGNITION

4. A live 36 hand grenade can be recognized by its light or dark brown (colour)
body with a red band or series of crosses painted around it. The grooving part of the
body of the grenade enables it to be identified at night.

PREPARATION BEFORE PRIMING

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4. The grenade must be inspected, cleaned and tested thoroughly before it is used,
to ascertain that it will work correctly. This preparation includes the inspection and
cleaning of the outside and inside of the body and of its parts and also the striker test.

a. Inspection Examine and ascertain that:-

(1) Lever
(a) Must not stick too far from the body, if it does, it may be
bent to fit better when the grenade is stripped.
(b) Must be firmly fitted into the striker slot.
(2) Shoulders should not be broken or cracked.
(3) Safety ring and pin should be sound.

b. Stripping the base plug is removed whilst the points of the pin closed
and keeping the lever under control with the fingers, the pin is pulled out.
Holding the open end of the grenade against your body, allow the lever to come
up under control; the striker and the spring can now be shaken out.

c. Cleaning in order to help the striker function properly and correctly in

its sleeve, all wax should be cleaned off the body around the top of and inside
the striker sleeve and from the striker and its spring. The striker must be straight
and its base has two (02) lugs and the gas escape slot.

d. Assembling before striker test the striker and spring are placed in
the centre sleeve, so that the slot at the top of the striker is towards the
shoulders. Using the drill round and nose first or the base plug key, the striker is
forced upwards through the hole in the top of the grenade and the placed in the
slot and held down firmly.

e. The striker test with the open end against your body release the
lever. This will show if the striker will work freely in the body and whether the
spring will force it down hard enough to set off the cap on the igniter set. If the
striker moves sluggishly or jams, either the cleaning has not been done properly
or there is some other fault in the grenade. In the latter case the grenade should
not be used.

f. Final assembling for the final assembly of the grenade, striker, spring
and lever must be replaced as already taught with the lever held down firmly with the
fingers and the filling screw towards the body, the pin should be put back from right to
left splayed out slightly, if splayed out too much there will be difficult in pulling out the
pin and the ring may be broken off. Finally the base plug is replaced.
IGNITER SET

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5. a. Description: -

(1) The igniter set is used to explode the grenade.

(2) It consists of: -
(a) .22 inch percussion cap placed on top of the cap chamber.
(b) A short length of safety fuse bent to shape and a detonator.
(3) The igniter set should be handled carefully by holding by the fuse
any the cap chamber, it must not be struck or crushed, it should be
kept away from heat and do not allow it to become damp.
(4) Never attempt to strip it.

b. Recognition

(1) The fuse is painted white and has for night identification a rubber
band or paper ring around it, it must not be removed. This type
burns for four (04) seconds.

(2) There is another type of igniter set for 36 hand grenade fitted with
a length fuse which burns for seven (07) seconds. This type of the
igniter set is not used on the grenade for throwing. Its safety fuse
has buff colour, has no rubber band nor paper ring around it and it is
fitted to the muzzle of a rifle then fired.

c. Inspection examine and ascertain that: -

(1) The hole in the centre of the .22 inch cap must be covered and
sealed.
(2) The cap chamber must be sound.
(3) The cap chamber and the detonator must be firmly attached to the
fuse.
(4) The detonator must be sound.

PRIMING THE GRENADE

6. To prime the grenade, the base plug is removed, the detonator sleeve must be
inspected and ascertain that it is free from any obstruction and has no rough edges.
Holding by the fuse and the cap chamber; using the thumb and the finger respectively.
Squeeze them gently closer to each other to ensure they go into the grenade easily.
The detonator is then inserted carefully in the detonator sleeve and the cap chamber
into the striker sleeve as far as they would go. If for any reason the igniter set can not
be inserted easily into the grenade, both the grenade and the igniter set must be
rejected. If inserted easily the base plug is replaced and screwed up with the base plug
key.

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UNPRIMING THE GRENADE

7. To unprime the grenade, the base plug is removed and the igniter set carefully
taken out and replaced in its tin and box.

MECHANISM

8. When the safety pin is removed and grenade thrown, the spring forces the
striker down and at the same time causes the lever to fly off. The lugs on the striker hit
the .22 inch cap and the flash formed caused ignites the fuse to burn for four (04) and
sets off the detonator which in turn detonates the high explosive fillings in the grenade
and the grenade explodes.

PACKING

9. Twelve (12) grenades are packed in a wooden or steel box marked HAND
GREN. Other contents are the four (04) small tins containing three (03) igniter sets
each and a base plug key is fitted on the side of lid of the box.

OTHER GRENADES

10. a. 80 WP (white phosphorous) - used in screening troops though

possessing some incendiary material.

b. 77 WP (white phosphorous) - used in screening troops though

possessing some incendiary material.

c. 83 SMK (smoke grenade) - used in screening troops.

d. 92 (tear gas) used to disperse unruly mob.

e. 82 grenades (Gammon) - it is anti-tank and anti- personnel as it

can penetrate at least 1inch in armour and 9 inches in brick wall.

f. 75 (Hawkins) - can be used as an anti- tank mine laid in line like a

neck lace.

g. 79/21 (Yugoslavian)

h. T 82-2 (Chinese) - anti- personnel and lethal area not less than 6
metres.

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