Hand grenade “Makedonia”
The
“Makedonia” grenate, at first known as “system Tyufekchiev” from the name of
its inventor, was the first hand grenade officially adopted by the Bulgarian Army
in 1906. Originally this kind of grenade was used by Macedonian rebels during
the Ilinden (3 August 1903) and the Preobraženie (19 August 1903) uprisings,
later it were adopted by Bulgarian Army and intensely used during the Balkan
wars. This explains the simplicity and even primitiveness of its
construction. The
spherical grenade was a cast iron ball with internal segmentation. The body
walls were about The
body was painted with a black or grey coloured lacquer. The adapter might
have the initial “НТ” (Naum
Tyufekchiev) engraved on the upper side. At first the ignition system
was simply a length of safety fuze with a detonator on one end and a
match-head lighter on the other, but in The
cubic grenade “ The
drill version of the Makedonia grenade used a normal body filled with sand
and had no fuze assembly in the igniter. |
Technical characteristics |
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Spherical |
Cubic |
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fragmentation |
fragmentation |
Size outside : |
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Size inside : |
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Thickness of the wall : |
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Thickness near the segment : |
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Weight of the body : |
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Weight of the fuze type “Odrin” : |
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Weight of the fuze old type : |
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Weight of the charge : |
80 – |
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Weight of the grenade : |
630 - |
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Fuze delay : |
8 seconds |
8 seconds |