By popular demand, here is another grenade history video. I am always open to suggestions, so leave a comment if there is something you want to see a video on.

I gotta share this with my military history teacher

Damn, just discovered your channel from the WWII ship mothballs video, and I'm shocked with how well researched your videos are. Never stop, please!

I hate that there are no video's about old style grenades exploding, there's nothing about the napoleonic grenades. no detailes on shrapnel effects. I really liked the video. if you can find anything on napoleonic grenades let me know :)

Hey man, i appreciate how thorough you are and the effort you put into these. Never give this up, you’re incredible

The Ketchum Grenade: 'The Nerf Ball of Doom'

Lol catching the grenades with blankets, 200 IQ move. Very interesting video! Keep up the good work

The Ketchum grenade turns your enemies to ash.

Lmao. "Hey cletus whats that thing in the air?!" Cletus: "I dunno but im gonna catch one!"

Interesting video. It's neat to see the progress from these early grenades to something like the Mills bomb.

So happy your channel blew up and people are noticing you

people from 2030: the first or the second war?

Awesome! Thanks for putting the work into making this interesting video

Keep it up. It’s good.

Really interesting. First I have ever seen.

Awesome video! I just started metal detecting - as I live in Colorado, the chances of me finding Civil War relics here are nil. However, I’ve watched a lot of videos back East. They routinely recover Civil War and older relics. As of yet I have note seen a single 1800’s vintage grenade recovered. I’m enjoying your channel, thank you!

0:48 otherwise known as the "Ah, Hell No" grenade. That thing make me queazy every time I see it

The irony this was made by a man named Ketchem and what did the enemy decide to do Ketchem. Gotta catch em all.

You could do really well on KZfaq with more videos like this and your flak vid. I love your content, keep it coming!

Very interesting!

That is a picture of my W. Hanes Hand Grenade that I auctioned through the Heritage Auction company. It was a perfect example of this grenade.

4:23 I always wonder about that gap. Considering every other bit of tech in the modern design was ancient by the time the percussion cap came around...

You should do a video on Shrapnel, by which I mean Henry Shrapnel and his spherical case shell.

I would think that throwing them with any force would cause the plunger to contact the inside of the outer casing causing it to detonate before it even left your hand.

I think with 1770s technology, and a blunderbuss, you could make a riveted, cast iron missle, launched from the end of the Blunderbuss. The tip just has a cigar Fuze, inside a little cage, and a metal gasket, that, on impact, dumps the cigar into the powder charge.. and all black powder, propellant, and charge.. although separated. It would just have a firework fuze and a simple nozzle for the rocket, and jammed in the end of the bell with wax. It would be a 《) shape of sorts, although longer... it could have fins too, if it protruded from the barrel, without falling out... which could be remedied by a longer projectile into the barrel... so it would be an RPG. The gun would fire, and then, the ballistic missle would fire, and go straight into that captains cabin, picture it! At night Grenadiers are like the original special forces, from the times of Prussian mercenaries... The oldest way is to just make a cast iron ball, and drill out the inside, and fill with powder, and a fuze, which could be cloth wrapped around powder like a cigar... That's from the time of Attilla the Hun

Hey great video. I was wondering if you could do a video on operation paperclip. It takes place towards the end of WW2, when the Germans where losing, and USA and the allies started hunting down Nazi scientists so they could use them to make (at the time) Advanced missiles and I think other weapons but that’s all I know. If you don’t want to do the video that’s fine, I just find it very interesting to think about.

Always reminds me how nasty shrapnel can be!

I'd like to see these in Red Dead some day, the ketchum grenade could be throw like a nerf football lol.

That's tough the algorithm gods didn't come through on this video

These look so dangerous. I think the best way to use them is to give them all to the enemy and watch them........."blow themselves up from a distance!"

The 1, 3 and 5 pound - was this the total weight or the weight of the black powder?

Would you really throw the Ketchum like a dart, or more like a lawn dart?

The Ketchum grenade looks like Roman plumbata

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It's weird you know potential history has also say it we think that the us civil war with outdated concepts like infantry of the line but you also have this and also submarines things that actually blow up ( no pun intended) in the used we associated to " modern warfare " but they have them all the way back it's kinda funny how just a 50 years gap can make a huge difference now days before you needed twice that to actually see technological developments

Not that many people on this video tho U need to make more videos about topics most history buffs like me like to watch look up mark Felton productions and focus on stuff that he does and keep it to ww1 and ww2 also focus on topics people want to watch like guns, tanks, planes, trains, ships, etc and U will get a lot of views homie!

Bet these things were so dangerous to carry around and use

Ok well now I want grenades in red dead

Plumbata! -- Roman -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbata

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