Indigenous grenades may soon replace Army's vintage ones

Finally the Indian Army may be able to replace the World War II vintage HE36 hand grenades with new ones developed indigenously. After a joint research with Chandigarh-based Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL), Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), has closed in on the final product. Though some fine tuning remains. After successful laboratory production, an order has been placed with the Ordnance Factory Khamaria to make 10,000 pieces of the multi-modal grenade (MMG), claimed to be better than the HE36. The HE36 takes four seconds…