M75 hand grenade
The M75 grenade (English: kashikara, Serbian Latin: kašikara, Serbian Cyrillic: кашикара) is a Yugoslav hand grenade, efficient in trenches, forests and bunkers. The grenade consists of a body, an explosive charge and "mouse trap" style fuse mechanism, all contained in a plastic transportation can.
| M-75 anti-personnel hand grenade | |
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The picture shows both the grenade and its plastic transportation can. | |
| Type | Hand grenade |
| Place of origin | Yugoslavia |
| Service history | |
| Wars | Yugoslav Wars, Grenade attacks in Sweden |
| Production history | |
| Variants | M93 (Macedonia) |
| Specifications | |
| Mass | 335 g (11.8 oz) |
| Length | 89 g (3.1 oz) |
| Diameter | 57 mm (2.2 in) |
| Filling | Plastic explosive |
| Filling weight | 33 g (1.2 oz) |
The core contains 3,000 steel balls with a diameter of 2.5–3 mm (0.098–0.118 in) with an effective killing radius of 12–18 m (39–59 ft), and a casualty radius of 30–54 m (98–177 ft). The explosive charge is 36–38 g (1.3–1.3 oz) of plastic explosive. The fuse, named "bušon" in Serbian, has a delay time of 3 to 4.4 seconds. Its name comes from the Turkish word for a spoon, "kašika". In American English, the lever of the grenade is colloquially known as the "spoon". The M-75 hand grenade was also produced in Macedonia, where it is designated M-93.