Firepot Grenade (late 1600’s)

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Hey that's a pretty neat item. Well, for a grenade!

[@hughgrection3052]

Seems to me these would be used more to cover a retreat perhaps than to try and lob into an enemy.
I say that mainly because i have a feeling the added powder wasnt meant for more boom affect. Its not pressurized enough to help that too much.
But... it would create a boom from the grenade plus alot of smoke and fire from all the excess added black powder.
I dont think it would help the fighters if the smoke was all generated on the enemy side during the fight. It would conceal them and help the enemy instead.
Then if your team dont wind up needing to retreat etc, just loot the powder inside and ditch the mug. So it likely was a dual use way to carry extra powder too.
Never knew about these till now good video bud.

[@beowulfshaeffer8444]

Interesting! I hadn't heard of them being nested before. I wonder if there'd be any noticeable delay between the inner and outer detonating.

[@sbcinema]

a strange thing, are there any documentations in the literature regarding its application?