Shock grenades for the USSR

For a change, the topic is not about Germany, but about the USSR.

As we know, the USSR does not have shock grenades . And this is an interesting and fun thing. I suggest giving the tips something like an Augan tulip

Here’s a photo
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And yes, I’m not sure about their use in World War II .
But it will somehow help with the balance

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“In Soviet russia, soldiers DRINK grenades (with vodka, goes down easier)”

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“Shock” grenades? As in that thing shoots out electricity?

Translation problems . A grenade exploding on contact with the surface.

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Impact nade. Got it

while cool these were not used in WWII, The idea came about during afghan war, and as the result these were called afghan tulips(афганскими тюльпанами) besides being a makeshift impact grenade it also added extra weight which allowed the grenade to be thrown further than the regular F-1 grenade

BTW besides afghan tulip something else was named after tulip, too , it was Antonov An-12
which got the nickname black tulip(Черные тюльпаны) , the name was given to it because it carried dead soldiers from Afghanistan and in Afghanistan they print the deads picture with black tulips around him/her also the nickname wasn’t widely know only after alexander rosenbaum made a visit to Afghanistan and saw everything and made a song about it (named black tulip) that it was widely known anyhow , Afghanistan is also where the term cargo 200 came from ,200 is/was the weight of the body of dead person + zinc coffin and from that point onward it was used both by military and people to refer to their dead

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So yes . But I didn’t find any more suitable ones.