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As a former soldier. It doesnt matter how you engineer safety for a grenade, tape is always going to be better.

I dont really want my grenades to be safe.

Smart lowkey!

"safest hand grenade" is wild.

Lol safe hand grenades.

That experience Dick Winters had is scientifically documented. I forgot what it’s called, but it’s in a book called “all the time in the world” unfortunately I don’t remember the author but I know that the forward was written by Don Miguel Ruiz

Cool, only took 60 years for the government to take sufficient action...

If you’ve ever pulled a pin you’d know that this is pretty unnecessary. No twig is gonna pull that pin without breaking.

Did the grenade explode? If not there is no error. Soldiers make mistakes.

I have no problem with military hardware but any attempt to call a hand grenade safe makes me lose it

Yeah we taped our grenades in Afghanistan back in 2010.

I thought the guy from Friends died.

Before I watched the Pacific I thought these guys were bad ass , afterwards I see them as boy scouts

It's a TV show

Thanks for ruining the movie for me forever

Soviets won ww2

First of all these grenades were concussion grenades and not fragmentation like the US grenades.

I noticed in the film Dick Winters was using an M1 cal . 30 Garand rifle ..Platoon Weren't Leaders nor issued/using Thompson Su-Machine gun... did the real Winters used a Garand rifle?

As former airborne I just assumed it was to reduce risk because ya never know what you’re gonna lose when jumping from an airplane

That actor that played the Paratrooper is the same actor that played Opie on Sons of Anarchy!

I’ve thrown grenades, and that confidence clip is actually really secure

I will never trust a grenade without a spoon, no matter how many new fangled springs and clips they come up with

they used to duct tape it because it was common to pull the pin of your friends grenade as a joke and watch them panic.

1988? It likely came out in the 1970s.

I haven't seen this scene but maybe he was thinking the grenade would go off when the tank fired it's cannon?

Still only as safe as your throwing arm

Страхът е голямо шубе

Fun fact. The actor who played Winters wasn't really Winters , he was just pretending .

I mean, you could also explain it away that since the grenade handle is tipped up, he detached the cord and activated the grenade but didn’t succeed at pulling the cord free of the handle and gravity simply didn’t free it. It’s not perfect but if you need a simple story to tell yourself to explain the film imperfection, it suffices.

why not tape de grenade in the production?

The story sounds very unbelievable. Throwing hand grenades is learned in basic training and there was no need for any printing on the hand grenade because every German soldier knew how to use it.

Just make 4 pins

The irony of putting safety devices on instruments of death.

I live just north of Athens Greece in the late 60s during WWII there was extensive fighting in that area in the mountain area we as kid could hike up there and find those all over the place plus mortar fin’s bullets and boots.

The stamp that lost the war

It's like you said, he actually could pull the cord, but the prop master told him not to, because it can be used later in the film, but someone forgot to edit it out

Another example of terrible logistics showcased by none other than, the Blank. (Specifically the German Axis Power. You know why I'm being so careful with my words.)

Still being done to this day in Ukraine, youtuber Valgear has many videos about different grenades, he always tapes the older soviet ones and any modern ones based on older soviet designs.

cool

US army combat vet, taped all my frags

US Army paratrooper/ combat vet. I taped ALL my frags

I hate seeing tape on grenades. It becomes a UXO at that point. I use to be an ammo tech. If any taped grenades got turned back into me when I was deployed, I'd issue full cans of that crap back out and made sure it got used. When it's taped, you can't see the lot number anymore.

“Safety grenades”

Making an instrument of death "child-safe", what a concept.

I thought he was saying they were taping a literal spoon to the grenade and that it was for when they lost their limbs or something so they could still push the spoon with their mouth to explode? Idk, I was waiting for him to make me understand how that would've worked. Don't know why my mind went to a dark place 😅🤦‍♀️

“Safest hand grenade” is kind of an oxymoron.

During the invasion of Iraq we took the safety pins off and used tape. At least that’s what my unit did.

Safe handgrenade huh... For the delivering or the recieving party?

I've had this very issue in Airsoft. It was a nightmare. lol

So the dude would die of concussion later on?