The Ordnance Factory Board has clarified that there has been no complaint from the Army about grenades during the weapons’ normal shelf-life. A TOI story published on September 7 had stated that a survey had found that soldiers often complained that grenades don’t explode. These, according to Ordnance Factory Board, are only whose fuse and detonators have outlived their shelf life of three years. The experts who spoke to the jawans during the course of the survey found that detonators more than three years old are reaching the jawans.
The Kolkata-based Ordnance Factory Board has confirms that it has received such reports as reported by TOI. TOI’s report does not specify whether problems are encountered by jawans during the shelf-life of a hand grenade.
On Insas (Indian National Small Arms System) rifle not having the facility to launch the grenades through its under-barrel launcher, OFB has said that the 5.56mm rifle, presently being used by jawans, is not powerful enough to lob the 36M make grenades mentioned in the article.
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