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The Type 67 hand grenade (Chinese: 67式木柄手榴彈, lit. 'Type 67 Wooden Handle Hand Grenade') is a type of hand grenade produced by the People's Republic of China.
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During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the Chinese designed and produced a grenade based on the Model 1924 which was used by the National Revolutionary Army. Such grenades were the main type of grenade used by Chinese forces during the whole war.
The M24 inspired clone was a simple design and was mass-produced in large numbers, not only in arsenals (primarily in the 1st, 11th, 21st, 24th, 25th and 30th), but also by hand with the help of civilians.[1] Hundreds of thousands of grenades were produced each month.[1]
There were some variations in the design, but most followed the same basic pattern: A wooden handle with a round or cylindrical warhead and a slow burning fuse. The charge was a mixture of TNT and potassium nitrate, and they were generally somewhat weaker than their German counterpart.[1][2]
In 1939, a new design with a smaller handle and much more compressed explosive load began trials. The resulting model was lighter and more powerful and the ordnance office decreed it to be the new standard type in all arsenals.[1][3]
After World War II, the People's Liberation Army standardized a variant of the grenade, designated "Type 67".
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Design
The Type 67 is based on the Stielhandgranate design, in particular, the Model 24.
Just like German troops, Chinese soldiers often bundled Type 67 grenades together to blast open fortifications, vehicles and the like. Another tactic was to tie a grenade to a long bamboo stick, for example to stick up over a wall or into a window.[1]
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The Type 67 became the standard hand grenade for the People’s Liberation Army[4], which becomes the basis for the Type 77.
The Type 67 was also supplied in huge numbers to the Viet Cong and the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.[5]
During the First Indochina War, the Vietnamese copied the Chinese grenades to fight against French forces.[6]
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