Mills bomb No. 36 Mk. 1

Mills bomb No. 36 Mk. 1 history

The Mills No. 36 grenade was developed in May 1918, at the end of the First World War, by British industries and is referred to as the « Mills Bomb ». It has a time delay of 4 or 7 seconds depending on the version. On the Great War battlefields, the Germans sometimes returned the British grenades with a delay of 7 seconds.

For the Second World War, only the 4 second versions were produced and endowed in the British army. Its serrated shape allowed to produce a very large number of shrapnels during the explosion, which would cause a maximum of damage.

Mills bomb No. 36, in service in the British Army until the 1960s, is known as « pineapple » due to its serrated structure.

Mills bomb No. 36 Mk. 1 specification

Creator/User: Britain
Denomination : No. 36 Mk.1

Type of grenade: defensive
Detonation mecanism: pin
Time delay: 4 secondes
Exposif : 70 grams of TNT

Lethal range: up to 35 meters

Weight: 0,63 kg
Length: 96,9 mm