A grenade (or bomb) designed to break into small fragments as it explodes.
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One cold and soggy morning about 0400 hours, we received word to change the bomb loads from 500-pounders to fragmentation bombs.
One of the wounded said he saw a 32-piece fragmentation grenade roll into the moneychangers' section of the city's central market before the explosion.
We subsequently ceased manufacture of this type of fragmentation grenade and the final sale was made in May 1999.
There are unexploded fragmentation bombs everywhere in the fields.
He described how, when a large group of Vietnamese soldiers had been trapped in a pocket, he ordered a then-new fragmentation bomb loaded onto a helicopter in order to drop it directly on target.
Soldiers concentrated their weapons on the opening until the clearing team stacked outside it, pitched in a fragmentation grenade and rushed inside after the blast.
There are roughly 13 in-view weapons, two mounted weapons and four types of grenades (though there are multiple fragmentation grenades available depending on the region of the world you're in).
If I was going to carry more weight, I'd choose the traditional fragmentation grenade every time.
Fragment entered the temple region and produced severe damage to the eyes - yet another fragmentation bomb victim.
Historically, the most important hand grenade is the fragmentation grenade.
The accidental explosion of a fragmentation grenade in a munitions factory at St Marys injured four workers, two critically.
To these bomb loads would have to be added a number of tons of antipersonnel fragmentation bombs to inflict comparable casualties.
This meant hurling a fragmentation bomb into the tent of a gung-ho officer.
Rounding out their arsenal were fragmentation grenades, claymore mines, and AT-4 anti-tank rockets.
Fragmentation barriers consisting of common office furniture, mattresses, doors, or books can be effective against the fragmentation grenade inside rooms.
At its most extreme, it involved a guerrilla strategy of selectively assassinating particularly gung-ho or oppressive officers through the use of fragmentation bombs.
The number of casualties due to the fragmentation bombs has reached 17 martyrs and 72 wounded persons.
The biplanes came in waves of nine-across formations, wingtip to wingtip, each carrying six 22-pound fragmentation bombs and dropping them simultaneously.
It now appears, however, that, while on patrol, he had stepped on an unexploded fragmentation grenade dropped by US forces in the area the day before.
The fragmentation grenade combined with the trip wire mechanism were stopped in April 1997.