EFFECT – Sends 4,000 2.4 mm (.0009 in) steel balls into the burst radius
BURST RADIUS – 6 m
FUSE TYPE – Pull ring/safety lever
FUSE INITIATION – Release of safety lever
FUSE DELAY – 5 seconds
FILLER – RDX/Wax
FILLER WEIGHT – 0.11 kg (3.88 oz)
FILLER EQUIVALENT TO TNT (R.E.) – 1.60
AVERAGE RANGE – 45 m (49 yards)
COLOR CODE – Olive drab plastic body, yellow plastic band (removable) around top of body
MANUFACTURER – Thales Australia
STATUS – Production
SERVICE – Australian armed forces
The F2 blast grenade was developed as an insensitive munition’s variant of the F1 fragmentation grenade following a co-development agreement between Thales-owned Australian Munitions and German company Diehl in 2013. The F2 blast grenade is a 225g (7.9 oz) blast-variant of the F1 grenade with an increased high-explosive RDX-based fill within a plastic body without a fragmentation mechanism. As a result, the F2 has more predictable blast patterns and increased user safety compared to the F1, chiefly suited to use within confined areas for close-quarter combat. The blast mechanism of the F2 renders the grenade more suitable for Offensive use by infantry soldiers with the desired lethality or wounding effect of the grenade achieved through the high pressure of the explosive compared to the fragmentation matrix of the F1 fragmentation grenade.
