22-541: (Redirected from M-36 ) M36 , M-36 or M.36 may refer to: Military [ edit ] HMS Bicester (M36) , a Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessel M36 tank destroyer , a World War II and Korean War US Army tank destroyer M89SR sniper rifle , first introduced as the Sardius M36 Sniper Weapon System in the 1980s Bofors M36 , an anti-aircraft autocannon Bulgarian M36 helmet , of
44-411: A cup-type launcher to replace the rod-type rifle-grenade. In this design, a can-shaped launcher was attached to the muzzle of the rifle and a gas check disc was screwed onto the base of the grenade before the grenade was placed in the launcher. The safety pin could then be removed as the launcher cup kept the safety-lever in place. The operator inserted the ballistite cartridge into the rifle before setting
66-570: A patent lawsuit. Col. Arthur Morrow, a New Zealand Wars officer, also believed aspects of his patent were incorporated into the Mills Bomb. The Mills bomb was adopted by the British Army as its standard hand grenade in 1915 as the No. 5. The Mills bomb underwent numerous modifications. The No. 23 was a No. 5 with a rodded base plug which allowed it to be fired from a rifle. This concept evolved further with
88-561: A state highway M36 (Cape Town) , a Metropolitan Route in Cape Town, South Africa M36 (Johannesburg) , a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa M36 (Pretoria) , a Metropolitan Route in Pretoria, South Africa M36 Highway (Kazakhstan) , part of AH7 (Asian Highway 7) Vehicles ICAR M.36 Comercial , a Willy Messerschmitt-designed airliner, of which one was built in
110-464: The 1930s New South Wales M36 class locomotive Progress M-36 , a Russian spacecraft Medicine and science [ edit ] Messier 36 , an open star cluster in the constellation Auriga M36, a sub-strain of the Vollum strain of the anthrax bacterium M36, a subclade of Haplogroup M (mtDNA) Other uses [ edit ] British NVC community M36 , a mire community; see Mires in
132-695: The British National Vegetation Classification system Symphony No. 3 (Szymanowski) , M36 in the Michałowski catalogue M36, an Egyptian hieroglyph; see List of Egyptian hieroglyphs § M36 M36, a metric screw thread standardised in ISO 965 See also [ edit ] 36M, a variant of the British Mills bomb hand grenade [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
154-649: The Bulgarian Army prior to and during World War II Panssarimiina m/36 , a Finnish anti-tank mine Skoda 75 mm Model 1936 (75 mm M.36), a mountain artillery gun M36, a variant of the US Army M35 series 2½-ton 6×6 cargo truck M36, the engine for the Leichttraktor , a German 1930s experimental tank M36 Burster, a warhead of the US Army M55 rocket M36 Captive Flight Training Missile, used for training on
176-534: The Mills bomb was India who only replaced it in August 2021 with a new Multi-Mode Hand Grenade (MMHG). The Mills bomb was developed into a rifle grenade by attaching a metallic rod to its base. This rod-type rifle-grenade had an effective range of about 150 yards (140 m). The operating procedure was to insert the Mills bomb rod down the barrel of a standard rifle , put a special blank cartridge (Ballistite cartridge) in
198-420: The No. 36, a variant with a detachable base plate for use with a rifle discharger cup . The final variation of the Mills bomb, the No. 36M, was specially designed and waterproofed with shellac for use in the hot climate of Mesopotamia in 1917 at first but remained in production for many years. By 1918 the No. 5 and No. 23 had been declared obsolete and the No. 36 (but not the 36M) followed in 1932. The Mills
220-637: The first modern fragmentation grenades used by the British Army and saw widespread use in the First and Second World Wars . William Mills , a hand grenade designer from Sunderland , patented, developed and manufactured the "Mills bomb" at the Mills Munitions Factory in Birmingham , England, in 1915. The Mills bomb was inspired by an earlier design by Belgian captain Leon Roland, who later engaged in
242-570: The grenade back. Therefore, the delay was reduced to four seconds. The British Army continued to use grenades with a seven-second fuse for use in rifle mounted grenade projectors where the fuse time was required to allow the grenade to reach its full range. The heavy segmented bodies of "pineapple" type grenades result in an unpredictable pattern of fragmentation. After the Second World War, Britain adopted grenades that contained segmented coiled wire in smooth metal casings. The No. 36M Mk.I remained
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#1732901347089264-468: The grenade could throw lethal fragments farther than this. The British Home Guard were instructed that the throwing range of the No. 36 was about 30 yd (27 m) with a danger area of about 100 yd (91 m). At first the grenade was fitted with a seven-second fuse but in the Battle of France in 1940 this delay proved to be too long, giving defenders time to escape the explosion, or even to throw
286-670: The handling of the AGM-114 Hellfire Modell 1936, a German World War II uniform M36 Patrol Boat, Royal Thai navy patrol boat Transportation [ edit ] Airports and train stations Frank Federer Memorial Airport , see List of airports in Arkansas Jigozen Station , in Jigozen, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan Muroran Station , in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan Roads M-36 (Michigan highway) ,
308-461: The open, wounding with fragmentation, as opposed to an offensive grenade, which does not fragment, relying on short-range blast effect to wound or stun the victim without endangering the thrower with fragments, which travel a much longer distance than blast. Despite the designations and their traits, "defensive" grenades were frequently used offensively and vice versa. A competent thrower could manage 49 ft (15 m) with reasonable accuracy, but
330-435: The pressure rising as the bullet moves up the barrel, peaking at some point before the bullet leaves the muzzle. With the much heavier grenade and rod, the cartridge had to accelerate a much heavier mass, which resulted in the powder burning up and the pressure peaking before the rod had got more than a part of the way up the barrel, putting peak pressure on sooner and sustaining it for longer. The British subsequently developed
352-419: The rifle's chamber , place the rifle stock on the ground, then pull the Mills bomb's safety pin, releasing the safety lever and immediately fire the rifle. If the soldier did not launch the grenade quickly, the grenade's fuse would time out and explode. The British soon developed a simple cradle attached to the rifle's bayonet lug to hold the safety-lever in place and prevent accidental detonations. However, it
374-524: The same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M36&oldid=1128666933 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages HMS Bicester (M36) HMS Bicester
396-603: The standard grenade of the British Armed Forces and was manufactured in the UK until 1972, when it was replaced by the L2 series. The 36M remained in service in some parts of the world such as India and Pakistan, where it was manufactured until the 2000s. Mills bombs were still being used in combat as recently as 2004, for example in the incident which killed US Marine Jason Dunham and wounded two of his comrades. The last major operator of
418-430: The stock, angled on the ground to absorb the recoil of the weapon. When the cartridge was fired it pushed the grenade out of the cup releasing the lever. The cup-type launcher could launch the grenade about 200 yards (180 m). Lee–Enfield rifles equipped with the cup launcher were sometimes modified with copper wire wrapped around the stock, to prevent the wood from splitting under the increased recoil. If necessary, both
440-568: Was a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy . She was sold to the Greek Navy in 2001 as Europa . This article about a specific naval minesweeper of the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mills bomb " Mills bomb " is the popular name for a series of British hand grenades which were designed by William Mills . They were
462-401: Was a classic design; a grooved cast iron "pineapple" with a central striker held by a close hand lever and secured with a pin. According to Mills's notes, the casing was grooved to make it easier to grip, not as an aid to fragmentation; and it has been shown that it does not shatter along the segmented lines . The Mills was a defensive grenade meant to be thrown from behind cover at a target in
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#1732901347089484-447: Was found that the repeated launching of rod-type grenades caused damage to the rifle's barrel, causing the middle to bulge out due to the prolonged pressure spike from driving the much heavier, larger projectile up the barrel (typically a much faster process with a normal bullet); a rifle cartridge rapidly burns up all the available powder, which fills the volume behind the bullet with extremely high pressure gases (tens of thousands of PSI),
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