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Russian troops in Ukraine mistook a tree ornament for a super-deadly modified Swiss grenade, and it was even reported on Russian news. (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

According to tankies, this is what peak performance looks like.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago

Swiss grenade? Am I missing something? Do we have an internationally recognized kind of grenade? My conscript time wasn't in the Infantry so I never had any.

[-] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

They claimed it was an HG-85 fragmentation grenade.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Haha okay thanks for the context. These idiots should at least make their propaganda plausible.

[-] linchiao@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Really different

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

With an extra layer added for more shrapnel. Which is dumb. Fragmentation grenades already have a shrapnel section that's very effective.

[-] skhayfa@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Swiss have diamond grenades?

[-] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago

Swarovski hand grenades.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I always thought the "hand" part of "hand grenade" referred to it's throwability, not to diamond hands πŸ’ŽπŸ‘

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 days ago

and these morons think they should rule the world

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Just wait until they see the tree-shaped missiles loaded with many of these!

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 days ago

many such cases...

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Disco Inferno.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Lol what dumbasses

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