{"id":128523,"date":"2021-08-25T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=128523"},"modified":"2021-08-26T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:54:05","slug":"first-batch-of-multi-mode-hand-grenades-handed-over-to-indian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-batch-of-multi-mode-hand-grenades-handed-over-to-indian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"First batch of Multi-Mode Hand Grenades handed over to Indian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1748523\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defence Minister has handed over the first batch of indigenous Multimode Hand Grenades (MMHG) to the Indian Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Multimode Hand Grenades(MMHG):<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><b>The Multimode Hand Grenades(MMHG)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been designed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratories and produced by Economic Explosives Ltd in Nagpur.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>The MMHG grenades will replace <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grenade No. 36 of World War I vintage design that is still in service.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><b>Key Features of MMHG:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The grenade <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offers multiple advantages to soldiers in terms of safety and penetration attack as compared to the vintage hand grenades.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The grenade operates in a dual mode. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the offensive mode, the grenade does not have a fragment sleeve and is used for low-intensity attacks. This mode is used when the soldier targets the attack within five metres from the point of burst.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The defensive mode<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is used when the soldier is in shelter and the enemy is in an open area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Moreover,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the grenade has a minimum shelf life of 15 years from manufacturing under normal storage conditions, proving that it is stable and can be used for a long time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Steps Taken by Government of India to Transform Defence Sector:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting up of Defence Industrial Corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formulation of draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP) 2020;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allocating 64% of its modernisation funds under capital acquisition budget for 2021-22 for procurement from domestic companies;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notifying two Positive Indigenisation Lists of over 200 defence items to promote self-reliance &amp; defence exports;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB);\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasing FDI limit from 49 to 74%\u00a0 under automatic route and beyond 74% through government route and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giving top priority to the &#8216;Buy {Indian-IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured)}&#8217; category for capital procurement.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? The Defence Minister has handed over the first batch of indigenous Multimode Hand Grenades (MMHG) to the Indian Army. About Multimode Hand Grenades(MMHG): The Multimode Hand Grenades(MMHG) has been designed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratories and produced by Economic Explosives Ltd&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-batch-of-multi-mode-hand-grenades-handed-over-to-indian-army\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First batch of Multi-Mode Hand Grenades handed over to Indian Army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[1255,9305],"class_list":["post-128523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-defence-technology","tag-indigenous-multimode-hand-grenades","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704812076},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}