F1 grenade (France)

Fusante No.1 Grenade
Fusante No.1 Grenade
	From left to right: F1 with M1916 Billant fuse, F1 body, F1 with percussion fuse.
Type	Percussion, time-fused grenade
Place of origin	France
Service history
In service	1915–1940
Used by	France; Commonwealth of the Philippines; Kingdom of Romania; Poland; Belgium; Spain; United States; Finland; Russian Empire; Soviet Union;
Wars	World War I; Russian Civil War; Winter War; World War II;
Production history
Designer	Thuau Fils
Designed	1915
Produced	1915–1940 (France)
No. built	Approx. 60,000,000
Specifications
Mass	530 g (19 oz), 550 g (19 oz), 570 g (20 oz), 600 g (21 oz)(Vary from sources)
Length	90 mm (3.5 in) (without fuse)
Filling	Cheddite (World War I model), trinitrotoluene (TNT)
Filling weight	60 g (2.1 oz)
Detonation; mechanism	MLE14 lighter, MLE15 percution, MLE16 percution, MLE16 Billant, MLE18 Bourny, MLE35 Bourny

The F-1 grenade is a hand grenade mass-produced by France during and after WW1, used en masse in the majority of European countries throughout the First and Second World Wars.

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