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How much of modern (WWI on) infantry warfare is just dudes throwing grenades? I saw something that said trench raids were basically just 5 guys chucking grenades while 1 guy gave orders and 2 guys had bayonets ready incase someone got close.
Wouldn't this give Americans a massive advantage because we can throw better than everyone else on account of our dads aren't faggots so they played catch with us.
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>>65639771
>Wouldn't this give Americans a massive advantage because we can throw better than everyone else on account of our dads aren't faggots so they played catch with us.

the US had an advantage because they ensured at least 1 guy in every squad could fire rifle grenades which had double the distance of thrown grenades and could penetrate 2in of steel on top of that
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>mandatory drones make whatever you claim obsolete
O algo
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>>65639781
yeah because they had drones in WWI, fatso
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>>65639771
Explosives trumps automatic gunfire. The name represents rapid and violent release of energy.
Grenades are the closest and finest for any remaining infantry to clean up their enemy counter parts after air raid, artillery bombardment, direct gun firing did their broad stroke sweep. Every manual and training video on infantry assault ends with getting into grenade throwing range of enemy entrenchment and the last line of defense is defender throwing grenades at enemies in grenade range.
Entrenchment are designed to optimize friendly and enemy grenade effectiveness against other weapons by adding features such as slope, height, wall, and grenade sump, among other considerations.
>>65639771
>>65639777
>Unique american advantage on grenade
There is none. Germany had ample production and supply of hand grenades, rifle grenades and shooting cups. Maybe an autistic number of designated blank cartridges for many rifle grenade/launcher pairs running through their fucked up supply chains.
There are plenty of clear advantage for bomber, artillery, vehicles.
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>>65640862
nazis can't throw baseballs on account of their dads were dickless faggots
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>>65640541
early bi-plane bombing was literally a dude just dropping a grenade so in a way yes WW1 was prehistoric drone warfe
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>Americans are better at grenade warfare
>because baseball.

I mean, its both a retarded and absolutely true at the same time. So good work.
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>>65640888
grenades are roughly baseball sized and thrown overhand like a baseball. every American knows how to throw a baseball and every yuropoor throws like a sissy nancy girl
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>throwing

Try mortars. If the bad guys get close enough then you can fire these horizontally.

>>65640864
You can throw stick grenades further and Nazis have practice using their hands on similar shapes.
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>>65640893
Nigger grenades aren't thrown like baseballs at all
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>>65640936
Not officially. Military basic training teaches a weird overhead throw based on WW1 prone throws; but in real life, the two other ways cover 99% of actual use - either posting it around a window or door at point blank, or baseball style.
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>>65640945
In my experience it's usually an unarm lob over or round something
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>>65640936
they are, retard. Buck Compton (he played catcher on UCLA with Jackie Robinson) threw a grenade and nailed a subhuman in the back of the head with it on dday. you are dumb and gay
>>65640930
>world war 1
>mortars
>trench raid
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>>65639781
now instead of dudes throwing grenades you have dudes controlling robots that throw grenades
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>>65641214
The more things change...
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>>65639771
I've read a couple of books about the Korean War and grenades were very prominent. As in hordes of chinks bum-rushing the american positions at night, many of the without firearms but with many, many grenades. And the americans repelling them throught a liberal use of machinegun fire and grenades
A few sources:
>Russell A. Gugeler - Combat Actions in Korea
>Leo Barron - High Tide in the Korean War: How an Outnumbered American Regiment Defeated the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni
>T.R. Fehrenbach - This Kind Of War
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In Storm of Steel there's a part where Juenger describes his CO raiding a trench just walking through it lobbing grenades at everything that moves while his aide is walking behind him shooting the survivors with a pistol.
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Was the distinction between defensive and offensive hand grenades always clear-cut?
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>>65640936
>t. no dick thirdie who didn't have a dad to play catch with
learn to not be a homo
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>self defense grenade



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