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ID of Vietnamese grenade

EOD

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Anybody here who can ID these Vietnamese grenades which look like their version of the M67?
 

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I've been trying to locate VN's munitions industry capability for awhile now. Where did you get the picture from? and any info on their industry?
 
I researched the Vietnamese factories for the database I am working on. I will write a short article for the IAA on the small arms ammunition factories.

Grenades are made by #13, #15, #31 and one is using the letter "T" where I am not sure if it is one of those previous three.

The image is from the Vietnamese web (did not save the link, it was a news website) where I did a search in Vietnamese script.
I will come up with some more images in another thread which are from a museum as it looks.
 
My guess it's the South Korean "Hanwah K-400 Fragmentation grenade" (that was indeed some kind of copy of the US M67 )
 

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It used to be that you could get the DIA or NGIC books that covered unclass and relatively current items, but not for some time now - too bad.
 
NGIC I have only on fuzes and projectiles and the DIA only on SAA. Are any other available in the net?
 
I have not seen any scanned ones recently. This is the latest hard copy I was able to get some years ago, dated 1996. I believe that the version prior to this was scanned at one time. 1b.jpg
 
For this version I'm afraid not. They are stapled hard copies, over 800 pages. I'll do some digging and see if I can find anything of the earlier version.
 
I have't seen either one of these. If anybody can link a digital version I would be thankfull.
 
I have't seen either one of these. If anybody can link a digital version I would be thankfull.

I haven't seen the both volumes either, so yes, if someone has a digital copy (or even a hardcopy that i can borrow to scan it) , in particular the 'handgrenade' volume, i would love to know.
Both other volumes 'fuzes' and 'projectile and warhead' are quite simple to find on the internet, but the 2 volumes US-Subs mentionned are apparently no were to find...
 
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