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In the Swiss Army there is a training hand grenade with nearly the same size TNT charge (120–155 g (4.2–5.5 oz)), but no shrapnel mantle. It is designated EUHG 85 for Explosiv-Übungshandgranate (explosive training hand grenade). They are the same size, shape and weight, made up by adding iron powder, as the HG 85, and painted a coarse black.
Grenades; RUAG HG 85 Switzerland: Hand grenade: Successor of the HG 43 [26] Training and explosive variants used by the army. [27] Armament Programme 1985, acquisition of 1.5 million grenades, and some others for training. [28] Armament Programme 2015, budget of CHF 38.9 million to replace 1 million of detonator. [29] SIG GL 5040 "Gewehraufsatz 97"
For such indirect rifle grenade fire, the Stgw. 57 was set on the ground and a weighted string attached on the sling loop was used as a plumb-line to set the correct firing angle reference mark on the appropriate bipod leg (left for boosted, right for unboosted). Swiss army knives were used as a makeshift plumb bob at the end of a string.
The rifled barrel has 6 right-hand grooves and the Swiss Army specification 254 mm (1:10 in) rifling twist rate is optimized for Swiss military GP 90 ammunition. An export-oriented 5.56×45mm NATO barrel configuration with a 178 mm (1:7 in) twist rate is also available, to adequately stabilize the relatively long NATO L110/M856 5.56×45mm NATO ...
Swiss Luger 06/29 [8] Swiss version of the german Luger P08; SIG P210 [9] Swiss copy of the French M1935A, few prototypes were made during WW2, serial production started after the war ~11 (44/16) W+F Bern Pistol M43 Was supposed to replace the Luger 06/29 but in the end the SIG P210 was chosen
40 mm grenade: Romania 1986 Designed to mount on the PA md. 86 rifle ARDE 40 mm UBGL: Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli: 40 mm grenade: India 2010 Bren CZ 805 G1: Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod: 40 mm grenade: Poland 2011 Developed for the Bren 805 A1/A2 rifle BS-1 Tishina: TsNIITochMash: 30×29mm grenade: Soviet Union 1970 China Lake Grenade ...
All Swiss police corps and the Swiss Army use it. It is 80 cm (31.5 in) long, weighs 5 kg (11 lb), can fire 6–10 shots per minute. Range is 180 m (600 ft) (160 m or 520 ft with the older shells). The range can be shortened by turning a ring which lets part of the propulsion gases escape.
Thomas Süssli, chief of the Swiss Armed Forces since 2020 Structure of the Swiss Army, 2018 (click to enlarge) In peacetime, the Swiss Armed Forces are led by the Chief of the Armed Forces (Chef der Armee), who reports to the head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport and to the Swiss Federal Council as a whole.