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  <updated>2008-08-03T16:42:21Z</updated>
  <title>Comments for Okay, let&apos;s answer that whatzis, and pose a new one.</title>
  <subtitle>We&apos;re the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost.  All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT,  and KA 2003-2007</subtitle>
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    <published>2007-02-04T14:32:44Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-10T22:56:26Z</updated>
    <title>Okay, let&apos;s answer that whatzis, and pose a new one.</title>
    <summary>Watching the comments is like using silent interrogation. Just stay quiet, and you guys will just keep talking and talking and talking... and you usually find, and sometimes reject, the correct answer. Casey, Trias, and ibm all were mostly correct. This is the guts of an &quot;offensive&quot; anti-personnel grenade. Ya, ya, all grenades are offensive to their targets. In milspeak, an &quot;offensive&quot; grenade is one designed to be tossed by a fellow who might not be able to take cover from it&apos;s effects, such as an attacking soldier, so those effects are minimized, both blast and long-range fragmentation. Defensive grenades...</summary>
    <author>
      <name>The Armorer</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/the_nicely_obsc.html">Watching the comments</a></strong> is like using silent interrogation.  Just stay quiet, and you guys will just keep talking and talking and talking...  and you usually find, and sometimes reject, the correct answer.</p>

<p>Casey, Trias, and ibm all were mostly correct.  This is the guts of an "offensive" anti-personnel grenade.  Ya, ya, all grenades are offensive to their targets.  In milspeak, an "offensive" grenade is one designed to be tossed by a fellow who might not be able to take cover from it's effects, such as an attacking soldier, so those effects are minimized, both blast and long-range fragmentation.  Defensive grenades are presumed to be thrown from cover, and hence are designed to have greater local and longer-range effects.</p>

<p>The whatzis are the guts of an unidentified euro version, which would have a plastic outer casing.  The interior sphere is aluminum, and the ball bearings/bb's are glued to that shell.</p>

<p><img src="http://www.fototime.com/6747DC723312241/orig.jpg" border=0 title="The whatzis revealed!"></p>

<p>The body of the US egg grenade on the right is included for scale purposes, the fuze in the grenade on the left is from the one on the right - vets will recognize a training fuze from the light blue spoon.  Well done - you guys really did pretty well - but would do well to heed JTG's warning about me, too.  [/evil smirk]</p>

<p>Here's your next challenge.  Ready?  Set?  Go!</p>

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    <title>Comment from SangerM on 2007-02-05</title>
    <author>
        <name>SangerM</name>
        <uri>http://www.grandretort.com</uri>
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        Bottom side of the top part of a lugar?
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    <published>2007-02-06T03:52:01Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-06T03:52:01Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:www.thedonovan.com,2007://1.7085-comment:56265</id>
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    <title>Comment from MajMike on 2007-02-05</title>
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        <name>MajMike</name>
        
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        Answer: pistol, dropped on training range after it failed to reach WW I on time, the inherent &quot;falling-apartedness&quot; of it was then discovered, and the weapon fell off the procurement list.
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    <published>2007-02-05T20:39:40Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-05T20:39:40Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:www.thedonovan.com,2007://1.7085-comment:56264</id>
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    <title>Comment from Rod Thorsen on 2007-02-05</title>
    <author>
        <name>Rod Thorsen</name>
        
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        Pederson Device.
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    <published>2007-02-05T20:39:32Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-05T20:39:32Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:www.thedonovan.com,2007://1.7085-comment:56262</id>
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    <title>Comment from John S. on 2007-02-05</title>
    <author>
        <name>John S.</name>
        <uri>http://oldguns.net</uri>
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        Hints-  Pistol, trench warfare, WW One, too late to see combat........  NOT designed by John M. Browning......
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    <published>2007-02-05T20:26:48Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-05T20:26:48Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:www.thedonovan.com,2007://1.7085-comment:56248</id>
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    <title>Comment from SangerM on 2007-02-05</title>
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        I haven&apos;t a clue what that&apos;s from.. Clearly a barrel and chamber for some kind of bullet launcher, but this is too generic for me....
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    <published>2007-02-05T14:18:25Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-05T14:18:25Z</updated>
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    <title>Comment from Casey Tompkins on 2007-02-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>Casey Tompkins</name>
        <uri>http://www.thegantry.net/blog</uri>
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        Wow. I actually got one! I&apos;m shocked. :)

This one... fuggedaboutit.
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    <published>2007-02-05T04:28:28Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-05T04:28:28Z</updated>
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    <title>Comment from Slick Rick on 2007-02-04</title>
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        Maybe a half screwed out barrel of the bottom side of a partially disassembled somethinorother! Gun. Or not.
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    <published>2007-02-04T20:21:47Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from John S. on 2007-02-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>John S.</name>
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        That&apos;s too easy- looks just like the one I have!  I won&apos;t spoil the fun by giving it away.  After all, it&apos;s supposed to be a SECRET!  
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    <published>2007-02-04T17:44:54Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-04T17:44:54Z</updated>
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    <title>Comment from Trias on 2007-02-04</title>
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        This new one is all but a mystery.  My best guess is some calibration thing.


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    <published>2007-02-04T15:55:06Z</published>
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