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Politics, Mature and taboo => Political Pundits => Topic started by: TheoK on January 21, 2009, 07:24:02 PM

Title: The Swiss are brave
Post by: TheoK on January 21, 2009, 07:24:02 PM
Handgranate Pearl (http://www.ruag-ammotec.ch/ammotec/de/produkte_handgranaten/pearl.htm?navid=79)

(http://www.ruag-ammotec.ch/ammotec/pictures/products/hg/pearl_choice_360.jpg)

Everyone should be allowed to buy those.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: P7PSP on January 22, 2009, 08:14:53 AM
That's very interesting, I would like to test a couple.
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: Parts on January 22, 2009, 09:51:00 AM
Almost to nice looking :laugh:
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: Peter on January 22, 2009, 12:27:39 PM
I take it the idea is that the lever lifts a magnet out of a central cylinder and the ballbearings drop all over the place?  Does it have a timing mechanism?
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: TheoK on January 22, 2009, 12:28:54 PM
It probably has a chemical fuse of some kind.
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: Peter on January 22, 2009, 12:31:03 PM
Aww, it's a real hand grenade, isn't it?  Someone should make my magnetic ball-bearing grenade for paint-ball and making a mess around the office.
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: TheoK on January 22, 2009, 12:37:18 PM
Yup, it's real. Did you think I'd post a link to a fake grenade?  ;)
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: DirtDawg on January 22, 2009, 01:39:16 PM


It's a perfume spritzer, Dummy!
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: TheoK on January 22, 2009, 01:46:20 PM
 ???
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: DirtDawg on January 22, 2009, 03:19:15 PM
It's actually brilliant, because the action and trajectories of those little balls of danger can be somewhat predicted using fluid dynamic equations for close range work. Not so with primitive frag' grenades in common use.

I can see a future where I could hand hold a directional grenade that would devastate several attackers at once!
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: TheoK on January 22, 2009, 03:42:06 PM
That's what I say. They should be available to anyone. You could call them "Freedom Pearls".  8)
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: Peter on January 22, 2009, 09:32:03 PM
I can see a future where I could hand hold a directional grenade that would devastate several attackers at once!

You can do that already.  It's called a sawn-off shotgun.
Title: Re: The Swiss are brave
Post by: TheoK on January 23, 2009, 04:57:12 AM
Damned, I can't forgive myself for not buying a shotgun in Norway when they were license-free, but I didn't know that back then.  :-\