GRENADE, HAND: RIOT, CS, M47
No Image Available Filler and Weight
CS pyrotechnic mix, 0
Body and Overall Weight
Spherical rubber casting, 410 grams
Color
Gray w/red band and red markings
Type of Round, DODIC
Grenade, 1330-G922
Description:
The M47 grenade consists of rubber body assembly, an M227 fuze, and a filling of CS pyrotechnic mixture. The grenade weighs 410 grams (approximately 1 lb), and is 3-1/2 inches in diameter. The grey grenade body is made of two rubber hemispheres vulcanized together. The top half of the grenade contains the fuze, and the bottom half contains the filling hole and the exhaust port. The grenade is filled with approximately 185 grams of CS pyrotechnic granulated mix.
Use:
The M47 grenade is a special-purpose, burning-type munition used for control of riots and counterinsurgencies. This grenade is a nonlethal, incapacitating-type munition that contains nonpersistent CS agent.
Functioning:
First the tape over the emission port will be removed. The safety pin will be pulled and then the safety latch is slid into the armed position. The arming handle is then free to separate from the grenade body. The firing pin initiates a primer which in turn initiates the delay charge which lights the ignition mix. The builtup pressure forces the CS mixtures through the emission port dispersing the agent.
Munition Components:
  • Fuze: Model M227, Type Pyrotechnic time delay-detonating
  • Primer 0.11 gram of lead styphnate, antimony sulfide, tetracene and barium nitrate
  • Delay charge 1.6 grams of silicon, red lead, and dialomaceous earth in a nitrocellulose acetone binder
  • Fuze: Model M227, Type Pyrotechnic time delay-detonating
  • Primer 0.11 gram of lead styphnate, antimony sulfide, tetracene and barium nitrate
  • Delay charge 1.6 grams of silicon, red lead, and dialomaceous earth in a nitrocellulose acetone binder
  • Fuze: Model M227, Type Pyrotechnic time delay-detonating
  • Primer 0.11 gram of lead styphnate, antimony sulfide, tetracene and barium nitrate
  • Delay charge 1.6 grams of silicon, red lead, and dialomaceous earth in a nitrocellulose acetone binder
Data Source:
TM 43-0001-29 Grenades
Munitions Tech Data Sheet:
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