摘要 |
As shown in FIG. 1, a grenade comprising a case 3, a sabot 2, and a forward part in the form of a nose cone 1 incorporating a pay load 4, the case 3 incorporating a suitable firing charge, the sabot 2 and the forward part being snap fitted to one another, and the sabot having a projection or projections 7 on its periphery arranged to engage rifling in the barrel of a grenade firing weapon when the grenade is being fired so that such engagement imparts spin to the sabot; the grenade being characterized in that the projection or projections 7 is/are formed from a suitable synthetic substance (eg Teflon(TM)) substantially different to the substance used to form the periphery of the sabot 2 from which the projections 7 extend.
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