I agree yes, was a very innovative yet dangerous item, though often just for how sticky it was, kinda like the plasma grenades in Halo.
Id imagine so since the RKG-3 was designed and built over 5 years later.
The Type 4 pottery grenade is surprisingly, a bit like the sticky grenade, a WW2 era last ditch effort design. It would be both HA for it to be added and would also allow Japan to fulfil an ability it previously didnt have compared to other nations in the game.
Apart from this, I would love to see proper AT grenades added to the game and in turn see explosive packs massively nerfed vs tanks with far less penetrating power. Make them only blow off tracks unless throw onto the engine deck/roof of a tank.
Its more innovative (should have used inventive) by being such a creative use of the more on hand and less war needed materials unlike other devices such as the early spigot mortars or limpet charge, though the limpet charge in of itself was a very very inventive design considering it used hard sweets and a condom.
Not exactly, though also not a million miles off, it was a little more advanced, both in material and fuse, this was mainly due to advances in funnily enough, material science compared to latter eras. Though the result at least somewhat similar.
Despite being designated, a well… designation, there is very little uniformity with the design due to many different potters and different kilns being used to make them, still they were supplied in great numbers.
I mean thats just no true, ofc it depends on the ceramic type, something like boneclay china/porcelain maybe, but these thick and hard pieces of ceramic/terracotta certainly could and would kill.
Though it is noted from later US testing that these grenades often worked as concussive grenades, that was more due to the smaller number of fragments rather the lack of lethality. Though technically speaking in this regard, if a grenade smashed before detonation there is a very high chance of it not working so using it as an impact nade might not be the best course of action. Then again with how loopy this game gets sometimes whats the harm in yet another ahistorical thing for the japanese in particular, would be nothing new there.
Perhaps they could be used as a “normal” fragmentation grenade with less fragmentation than the standard frag grenades in game, though to balance it out and due to its surprisingly low average weight of about 450g, if you took the Type 4 you might get 2 grenades for the price of 1?
TM 9-1985-4 Japanese Explosive Ordnance (Bombs, Bomb fuzes, Land mines, Grenades, Firing Devices and Sabotage Devices)*. Departments of the Army and Air Force. March 1953.
