Description
The TA Practice Smoke Hand Grenade, M83 is a burning type grenade used to generate white smoke for screening activities of small units. It is also used for ground-to-air signaling.
The grenade body is a cylinder of thin sheet metal. It is filled with TA smoke mixture topped with a starter slug directly under the fuze opening. The duration of smoke screen or signal is 25 to 70 seconds, average burn-time.
Hand grenade fuze M201A1 is a pyrotechnic delay igniting fuze. The body contains a primer, first-fire mixture, pyrotechnic delay column, and starter slug. Assembled to the body are a striker, striker spring, safety lever and safety pin with pull ring. The split end of the safety pin has an angular spread.
Safety clips are not required with these grenades.
Functioning
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Hazardous Components
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Source(s)
TM 43-0001-29, Grenades (chg 4, 2002)
