Frag Grenade

About the Frag Grenade

The fragmentation grenade is a soldier's oldest friend, a fist-sized casing packed with explosive and scored to burst into a hail of lethal shrapnel. Pull the arming stud, count, and throw, and a moment later everyone within the blast radius is caught in a cloud of razor fragments that shred flesh and drop a clustered squad in a single detonation. Infantry across every era and army carry them by the beltful, because nothing else so cheaply clears a room, breaks up a charge, or flushes an enemy from cover. It rewards good timing and a strong arm and punishes a short throw or a bad bounce, since the shrapnel doesn't care whose side threw it. In the confusion of close combat, a well-placed frag changes the situation faster than any volume of blaster fire.