Indian Army’s new Multi-Mode Hand Grenades

The Ministry of Defence had signed a contract with a Nagpur-based private entity for supply of 10 lakh of units indigenously designed and developed Multi-Mode Hand Grenades (MMHG) to the Indian Army at a cost of over Rs 400 crore.

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These grenades will be replacing the World War-II vintage ‘Mills Bomb’ type 36M hand grenades now used by the Army.

DRDO’s facility Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory (TBRL) which has developed the MMHG.

The MMHG can be used in two different structures resulting in two different modes — defensive and offensive.

The defensive mode grenades are to be hurled when the thrower is in a shelter or has a cover and the target is in an open area and can be harmed by fragmentation.

On the other hand, the offensive grenades do not fragment, and the adversary is harmed by the blast or is stunned while the thrower is safe.

The grenades being used by the forces in India till now have been mainly the defensive mode grenades.