Why movie grenades explode wrong

Heroes of different action movies love grenades and diligently throw them at all sorts of bad guys. But, as is often the case in movies, the capabilities of this weapon are slightly exaggerated by Hollywood.

The films may lead the impressionable viewer to believe that the average anti-personnel hand grenade is only slightly behind tactical nuclear weapons in explosive power. She supposedly spawns a huge fireball, throws cars into the air and makes buildings fold like houses of cards.

But a real blast 1. Five things movies get wrong about grenades / We Are The Mighty
2. NS. Veremeev. Grenade Arithmetic / Anatomy of an Army the shell is just cotton, smoke and a bunch of fragments and shrapnel scattered in all directions. A grenade that detonated even in the immediate vicinity of a person does not always kill him.

It is not capable of destroying buildings (but it is hard to injure and shock - completely) and does not produce "clouds of flame".

The flashes of fire that Hollywood treats us to are more characteristic of some thermobaricWhy grenades in movies look nothing like real life / We Are The Mighty weapons. When they explode, these projectiles throw clouds of highly reactive substances (phosphorus or magnesium) or aerosol fuel around them, which then ignites. Hand grenades cannot do this, otherwise they would have killed not only enemies, but also the fighter who threw them.

And by the way, a real combat grenade cannot be activated silently, as is often done on the screen. When the striker strikes the capsule, theRGD 5 grenade: device and performance characteristics / Military Arms a loud bang, just a little short of a pistol shot. So you won't be able to throw such a gift from around the corner at the feet of your opponents.