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Nokose

18th April 2008 06:58

Soviet aviation grenade

I read about Pe-2's throwing out AG-2 aviation grenades to knock down attacking German fighters. Does anyone know how these worked?

yogybär

18th April 2008 10:20

Re: Soviet aviation grenade

There are similar stories about IL2-reargunners throwing grenades with delayed ignition. I imagine that they used delay of i.e. ca. 500m, which means ca. 6 seconds at 300km/h.

One guy from II./JG52 was injured in such an incident, IIRC it was Ewald over Hungary.

yogybär

18th April 2008 15:43

Re: Soviet aviation grenade

"Pe-2 got even more defence starting from '179' series. DAG-10 dispenser for 10 aircraft grenades AG-2 was added at tail section. Despite those grenades could not be aimed on the attacking aircraft, they could literally blast it of the sky."

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