Worst Grenade From Every Era Explained

The worst grenade from every era, explained: Japanese soldiers in WW2 were trained to strike their Type 97 grenade against their own helmet before throwing it — and then hope the fuse kept time. That helmet trick turns out to make sense. The fuse did not. This animated history goes through a thousand years of grenades that let their own side down: Byzantine clay pots that could break in the thrower's hand; the Song and Jin dynasty thunderclap and thunder crash bombs, lowered on chains at the siege of Kaifeng in 1232; the iron grenades of the 17th-century grenadiers and their unpredictable powder fuses; the Ketchum grenade that Confederates caught in blankets at Port Hudson and threw back; the British No. 1 cane grenade that exploded against the trench wall; Gallipoli jam tin bombs; the No. 74 "sticky bomb" Churchill ordered a million of; the No. 76 phosphorus bottle grenade the Home Guard buried in gardens; the Soviet RGD-33 and its arming checklist; the OSS T13 "Beano" baseball grenade; the Type 97 and Type 91; and the XM25 "Punisher" smart grenade launcher. Plus two myths busted: the German potato masher and the American Mk 2 "pineapple". Which one would you never touch? Tell us in the comments. Chapters: 0:00 Hit it on your helmet 0:52 900s: Byzantine clay grenades 1:51 1044: the thunderclap bomb 3:31 1660s: the grenadiers 4:47 1861: the Ketchum grenade 6:04 1908: the cane grenade and jam tins 7:42 1940: the sticky bomb 9:00 1940: the phosphorus bottle 10:03 Myth 1: the potato masher 11:12 Myth 2: the pineapple 11:57 1933: the RGD-33 13:07 1943: the Beano baseball grenade 14:23 1937: the Type 97 helmet grenade 16:42 2010: the XM25 smart grenade 18:32 The worst grenade of all How this video was made: the script was researched from military museum collections, official histories and published books, cross-checked between sources, then written and narrated for this channel. Where sources disagree (what medieval clay vessels held, how many Beano grenades were made), we say so in the video. Every scene is hand-drawn in our doodle style, and the real grenades are shown in archive photographs. Sources: Imperial War Museum, London; Royal Armouries; National Museum of the Pacific War; Smithsonian National Museum of American History; Joseph Needham, "Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 5 Part 7: The Gunpowder Epic"; Anthony Saunders, "Weapons of the Trench War 1914–1918"; US Army reports on the XM25 programme. Figures are approximate. Real photos: Wikimedia Commons (authors and licences in the pinned comment). More war stories from the other side of the hill: Sketchy Warfare. Next on Doodle Arsenal: the worst flamethrower from every era. #Grenades #WorstWeapons #DoodleArsenal #MilitaryHistory #History #WW2 #WW1 #StickyBomb #Type97 #MillsBomb #AnimatedHistory #HistoryExplained #SketchyWarfare #Weapons #EveryEra