How bad is a grenade?

Question

Could a grenade blow up 2000 square foot 2 story house? I've seen it happen in movies but don't know if its true.

Answer 1

NO. But you have diferent types of grenades that are design for all kind of purpuse. Fragmentation grenades ,Concussion grenades Percussion grenades Smoke grenades Riot control Incendiary grenades Stun grenades Sting grenades
Impact stun grenades - Blank Firing Impact Grenade or BFIG Anti-tank grenades . A grenade may not blow a house but if you ysed incendiary grenade on the house it will burn it to the ground.
Hand grenades share the following four characteristics:

Their employment range is short;
Their effective casualty radius is small;
Their delay element permits safe throwing;
Their hard shell, along with their previously mentioned delay element, enables the grenade to ricochet off hard surfaces, like walls, before detonating.

Answer 2

A standard M67 fragmentation explodes and throws shrapnel or small pieces of metal over an area of about 5 meters on all sides of the grenade. Certainly if one of the pieces struck something flammable such as a gas line there could be a much larger explosion. If the house were well sealed then windows could be blown out because the explosion would displace allot of air not to mention the flying pieces of metal. I would consider it unlikely that a 2000 square foot house would be destroyed by a single grenade. There are other types of grenades. A concussion grenade would do less structural damage but greater damage to windows and glass. An incendiary grenade would start fires and could cause the house to burn down. Grenades are also used to deploy smoke or gas and there are very likely grenades that I am unaware of that contain a much higher explosive yield. Perhaps a high explosive grenade could destroy a house but I find it unlike that this would be a thrown type grenade. If the explosion is that large then who could safely throw it?

Answer 3

In one word No. A typical grenade does very little damage in the sense of an explosion. The idea with grenades is that they have a bunch of small ball bearings or bb's that get fragmented all over the place with the purpose of taking out a human. Yes they can be used to do structural damage to say a building but that is not a common use for them. When I was in Kuwait I lived next to a tent where a US service member threw grenades into a tent and killed people. The tent overall was unharmed with little bb sized holes in it.

Answer 4

no!

Most in current use have a kill radius of 16 feet and a wounding radius of 50 feet!

There is the M40, which also comes in machine gun style, I would not like to be the victim of.

From my understanding, many people in Iraq do not like to use grenades as they have so much collateral damage. Vietnam was different as you were usually far enough away from the civilian population. Not always though!

A grenade is certainly capable of blowing a house that hes other incendiaries in the house, but not by itself!

Answer 5

Hollywood war movie grenades are more like mini-atom bombs. A grenade is only effective in enclosed positions like a room, bunker or foxhole.

Answer 6

different types or grenades = different types of damage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenade

Answer 7

not even close, it'll blow up a piece of furniture that's about it they aren't that powerful only in close proximities

Answer 8

no...

I've been within 20 feet and on the ground and felt the concussion, no scratches.

Answer 9

Outlook not so good.

Answer 10

Actually, no.