WWII Italian Model 35 "Red Devil" Grenade SRCM 35 History and Overview
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2022
- Today we're looking at an Italian SRCM 35 grenade from WWII. These grenades were designed as an offensive grenade, to be thrown by soldiers on the attack. They are made of light aluminum, with an internal fragmentation coil added. They were painted a bright red, and were designed to explode on impact after being armed, not being provided with a fuze delay. Many did not explode, but would later explode if disturbed later, thus earning them the name "Red Devil" by British Troops in North Africa. Even so, this grenade and other similar variants served the Italian military until the 1980s.
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A bit of correction on operation. The video describes that the (missing) rubber pad gets flipped up. This is incorrect. The rubber pad is riveted to the brass strip and is pulled out like a traditional grenade pin. This is the first stage of arming the grenade. The brass strip, when installed, physically blocks the firing pin from striking the detonator. When the rubber pad and strip are withdrawn, the second safety, the cap, is free to disengage during flight and withdraw the second safety strip. The short chain that is connected between the safety cap and a second strip provides a manner of delay in arming when thrown. Internally, there is also a safety shutter, that if detonation doesn't occur, a spring on the shutter closes the opening between the firing pin and detonator in order to make it safe. Well, it is supposed to make it safe but from historical reports it sounds like this action may have failed (or maybe wasn't on the early versions) as undetonated grenades would commonly detonate when disturbed.
I used this kind of hand grande during my military service back in 2002 and I can confirm that what you are writing is totally true
Super cool video!
Thank you very much!
I loved this video, thank you for this man!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@historicmilitaria I put this up on LinkedIn, for "reach".
The words translated are" Roman Company"
Greetings thanks for the video
Thanks for the info!
@@historicmilitaria it's the SR in SRCM. CM is for military production in think.
@@historicmilitaria Società Romana Costruzioni Meccaniche (SRCM)
SRCM - Società Romana Costruzioni Meccaniche. That means "Roman Society for Mechanical Constructions"
Interesting video, and a cool accent - you sound a bit like Tom Hanks.
I was thinking Adam Driver😃
There is a video of a Greek veteran from the Greco Italian war. He says in this video about those red grenades and they defused them and use the to hold their cigarettes in them. He also says they used in close quarters to scare the Italians, jumping in front of them when they did not except it and force them to drop their weapons, while those grenades were sometimes cigarette cases.
can u link me the video? thanks
@@pierluigiadreani2159 I think i cant post the link so here ia the title.
V.3 《Οταν οι ήρωες...》 DVD για την επέτειο του έπους ρου 1940.
The moment in the video in at 15:38 but it has no subtitles.
I used these things in the mid nineties during a long period of training with the Italian army. The 1oz explosive charge is anaemic at best. I have found exploded grenades with a hole in the top and the body intact. The wire wound container holds the charge and is held in place by the brass strip. The aluminium cap separates from the body and pulls another strip out. This exposes the detonator (part of wire wound container) to the firing pin. Impact with mother earth SHOULD allow the firing pin to set the detonator off. Bad piece of kit.
What content inside? Do you think there is mercury in inside?
I believe these were filled with TNT.
43gr. of TNT or 46gr. of a mixture TNT+Trinitronaphthalene
on tap of granade it says: "romanian society" probly for the capital rome
No, not Romanian, but Roman, during fascism in Italy many companies in war production had names referring to the Roman Empire... but in this case I think it was a reference that the Factory is located in Rome. 😊