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6/26/2007 3:10:19 AM
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Could the spike grenade actually work in real life?
I was just thinking, is it actually plausible? The german had grenades in WW2 that have a similar design. What if you strapped a -blam!-load of spikes on to it? I think it could work. It would certainly stick someone.
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I think it could easily work, and I'm looking forward to someone actually making one soon. It's just a pipe with some jagged metal on it.
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Shrapnel is what actual frag grenades create to kill enemies, death by the explosion itself is usually only when its thrown into a tight space.
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Of course it would work! It would be easier to use it as a melee weapon though, I'd take the explosives out and just lob a bunch of them at an enemy.
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yes they actually have them the ARMY would drop them into hotels where they thougth terrorists were hiding the nails could shoot through walls
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If you could make a potato-masher grenade that stuck to whatever surface you threw it against, exploded parallel to the handle, and no-where else, then yes. That's a pretty tall order, though.
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sounds fun yet dangerous...lol
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I could see a real life spike grenade being made but it wouldnt stick to walls(what person can through a grenade hard enough to get it to penetrate a wall only the chief) and stuff only people and it would be a pain to lug around
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The thing with the spikes....the way Shrapnel or Fragmentation grenades work, it's just forced speed and blunt metal objects flying outwards from the explosion. They're cart-wheeling and flipping and spinning all which ways in the air. Keeping the "spikes" of a spike grenade pointing spikey side out while they're in the air, which would do the most pierce damage, would be almost impossible unless somehow the spikes were weighted just perfectly.
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You should go ask the Brutes kindly if you could borrow one, to see if it works.
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sure, there was a mine called "bouncing betty", which was a frag-spike mine that shot into the air when triggered and fired off metal spikes of death in every direction...yummy
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well yes almost all grenades are like spike grenade but instead of shooting spikes it shoots deadly shrapnel and in the real world almost 80% of grenade fatalities arnt from the explosion but from the shrapnel that shoots off them at hundreds of feet per second so really yes spike grenades are possible but worth making them no its a waste of money, fragmentation grenades work just fine.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Halo 2 Rookie It's not the most advanced weapon that the Covenant have, but Brutes don't care much for advanced things. Just things that win them a victory, I think.[/quote] Two quotes from the [url=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BAGBruteGrenade]Spike grenade Preview.[/url] These should explain more clearly what the focus for the Brutes' weapons are. [quote]"The casing is constructed of an unusual porous metallic compound. Shrapnel from the Type-2 reaches a temperature of approximately 270 to 315ºC and retains that heat for upwards of seven seconds. By design."[/quote][quote]"Those things ain't made to wound anyone -- to make you use up time and resources treating casualties. They were designed to make you die screaming."[/quote]
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mybe not stick to someone but it would be kind of like ducktaping 100 nails to a M1000 and throwing it in a closed envirenment like a car or a kitchen, think of the damage!! muhahahhaahha
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] monstes jars [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Keyes86 Not unless someone can somehow create a device that makes the explosion always blast perpidicular to the surface the grenade is stuck to. Short answer: no.[/quote] Thats actaully not nearlly as impossible as you might think. Its actually fairly easy to focus the blast of an explosion if you do it right. When it comes down to it yeah we probably could but it really wouldnt be effective and would kind of be stupid in real life. Plus there my least favorite gernades. The real question should be whether we could make plasma's or not. O.o[/quote]I know, we used shaped charges today to create a directional blast, but it's all pre-meditated. To make it so the blast is [i]always[/i] perpednicular to the surface it's attached to, no matter what orientation grenade is, is the hard/nearly impossible part.
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Actually a frag grenade from today is like the spike grenade...its not the explosion that kills you, its the shrapnel. And they did have 'sticky' grenades back in WWII, it was a grenade with adhesive all over it, when you want to use it, you pull wrapping off, pull the pin, and throw, but it was recalled, if you could call it that, because soldiers were having it stick to their hands...Actually, I heard this from someone and my Grandfather, so it may just be an old wives tale.
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Yea they have those; shrapnel grenades. I don't think they use them anymore and I don't think theyr shaped like Brute Spikers.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Keyes86 Not unless someone can somehow create a device that makes the explosion always blast perpidicular to the surface the grenade is stuck to. Short answer: no.[/quote] Thats actaully not nearlly as impossible as you might think. Its actually fairly easy to focus the blast of an explosion if you do it right. When it comes down to it yeah we probably could but it really wouldnt be effective and would kind of be stupid in real life. Plus there my least favorite gernades. The real question should be whether we could make plasma's or not. O.o
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Maybe. The Potato Mashers aren't the same in effect, though - just appearance. To give the Brutes a sense of -blam!--ish behaviour. Technologically, I'm not sure what we are and aren't capable of; in about 25 years, apparantly the U.S.A. is gonna have soldiers wearing liquid armor and strength-enhancing nano suits. I just don't know. It's not the most advanced weapon that the Covenant have, but Brutes don't care much for advanced things. Just things that win them a victory, I think.
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Not unless someone can somehow create a device that makes the explosion always blast perpidicular to the surface the grenade is stuck to. Short answer: no.
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It could work, but the way the grenade sticks on walls and people is the tip of the grenade, the other side of the handle which is hard to stick in real life.
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This game is set 500 years into the future from NOW! The Brute Spike Grenade isn't even our technology. So the answer is YES, this could and DOES work.
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Could work...but then the guy that got stuck could run towards the guy that threw it...unless the Grenade exploded really fast...but that would make it even more dangerous...
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it would work, itd be like throwing a baseball bat, you could slice an arm off with the spikes though but i dont know if the claymore effect would work though
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I'd buy them!
