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M59 (Defensive Hand Grenade)
The M59 is a US-developed, high explosive fragmentation (HE-frag), defensive, impact- and delay-fuzed, hand grenade, which is based on, and almost identical to, the M33 grenade. The M59 comprises two steel shells, which are welded together to form an oblate (squashed) spheroidal body. The upper shell incorporates a cylindrical extension, which forms an internally-threaded fuze well. The internal surfaces of the two steel shells are coined,...
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