How to throw my grenade more accurately and further?

Question

I'm a soldier that throws my grenade baseball style for accuracy, but this way offers less distance than using the arm and swinging overhead. Any better ideas, this could help in a life or death situation.

Answer 1

Use the overhead style they teach. The advantages are that the arc will take it over obstacles like walls, and also when it hits, it won't roll past your target.

Answer 2

An interesting property of hand grenades is that they have no muzzle flash or retort and their trajectory is difficult to determine. This is particularly useful during night combat or any situation were visibility is limited.
During World War One German Stormtroopers realised that enemy trenches were best attacked using just bayonets and grenades. During the approach firearms would often be carried unloaded to prevent accidental discharges or nervous Soldiers being spooked into losing fire-discipline. The absence of gunfire meant that neighbouring units or even those being attacked would assume that explosions were mortar or artillery fire. Often troops would take shelter rather than manning defensive positions. Not using firearms also reduced the risk of fratricide. Anyone who did fire could be assumed to be an enemy. In more open terrain the detonation of a grenade might be assumed to be a mine or booby trap.
Offensive grenades were usually used in the above roles. These would either be concussion grenades or fragmentation grenades that produced a limited and predictable casualty area.
In Vietnam many US troops found that trees prevented fragmentation grenades being thrown far enough for them to escape the danger area. Troops operating in jungle conditions should be issued with concussion grenades as standard, with a couple of "Fragmentation Sleeves" carried for if the grenade is used for a booby trap. The Fragmentation sleeve may just be a flexible wrap-around plastic pad containing steel shot that fastens around the grenade body. When not in use it would fold up at the bottom of a pocket or ammo pouch. A couple of grenades would be carried with sleeves fitted, the rest without.

Because the concussion grenade has a smaller effect area than a Frag we tend to think of them as inferior. In reality this is the Concussion grenade's greatest strength. Since the Soldier can use the grenade when closer to his target, it has greater tactical flexibility and can be placed more accurately. While the close range use of a Fragmentation grenade often requires cover, use of a concussion grenade often only needs concealment

Answer 3

I don't know what army you are in but the US Army teaches to throw a grenade like a baseball. You've been watching too many war movie

UPDATE: I got an e-mail from this clown. He's no soldier. He's an illiterate wannabe with a very limited vocabulary. Probably plays with GI Joes.

Answer 4

Use the technique the DI learned you. Its some reason that they learned that option. If you want to through grenades longer get your hands on a grenade launcher kit (I dont recall it modell number right now) to your M16. It helps! Johan

Answer 5

you might be better off throwing it to the bad guy, and asking him to pull the pin, and set it in his lap. Theres only one way to "throw" a nade...just throw the damn thing as close to the bad guy as possible.

Answer 6

just get it 100 feet away and then run like crazy, wait dont run get down.

Answer 7

More push ups.

Answer 8

....death of whom? if it is yours then practise hard.