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One Grenade Ain't Enough? Stack `Em Together For An OMG Effect

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Yessiree! The more grenades stacked together, the more effective they become to take out the enemy in rooms and bunkers. Called the Scalable Offensive Hand Grenade (SOHG), this is a new type of hand grenade being tested by the U.S. Army and can perform better than the standard fragmentation grenade. To increase or decrease the power of the SOGH, you either stack up to three SOGHs together or remove them, depending on what the situation warrants.

According to officials at the annual Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment at the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia, the testing have been completed successfully with the soldiers stacking up to three grenades and using them with devastating effect. Designed by Nammo, the grenades are actually being used by specops forces since 2010 and are called "Nammos."

The grenades give you an initial impression of being like smoke grenade canisters, but they have a threaded base and a threaded circular necks for them to connect to the base of another SOHG grenade when stacking them up. Each canister contains 0.25lbs of explosives and with a maximum of three, a soldier can throw a total of 0.75lbs of explosives with the 3.5 second fuse.

According to Kit Up! Harry Lubin, chief of the Experimentation Branch of MCOE’s Maneuver Battle Lab, said that a two module SOHG blast completely collapsed a one-room, adobe-style structure.

Although Offensive Hand Grenades were designed to act differently from fragmentation grenades as they are made for the purpose of minimizing destruction of infrastructure and assets, the power by the SOHG when put together would allow the user to determine the amount of SOHGs needed to minimise collateral damage.

It is still up the top officials of the U.S. Army if they are going to adopt the SOHG for use by the infantry. In case they do, they will have to implement another training regimen to ensure that soldiers are able to use the SOHG to their maximum (or minimum) effect when out there in battlefield. In these days where many if the fighting are done in highly dangerous urban area, grenades play a big role in clearing areas. The SOHG might just be the right grenade to use.

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