The outer shell of the grenade is aluminium, containing 43 grams of TNT and dinitronaphthalene with an internal wire wrapped around it that turns into shrapnel at the time of the explosion. Typical throwing range is 20–25 meters and the effective range of the shrapnel 10–15 meters. 35 is an offensive-type hand grenade meaning that it scatters light shrapnel, lethal within a radius of less than the maximum distance of the throw, its purpose being to cover the advance of the thrower without the thrower having to seek cover. It was used by the Italian Army until the late 1980s, and the armed forces of Malta (supplied by MIATM). After the Armistice of Cassibile it was adopted as Handgranate 328 by the German forces in Italy. 35 represented the new generation of hand grenades with which the Royal Italian Army faced World War II. Nicknamed "Red Devils" by the British in 1941–1942 during the North African Campaign after the red color of the most common type.Įntered into service in 1935, the SRCM Mod. 35 is a hand grenade that was first issued to the Royal Italian Army in 1935, serving through World War II and into the 1980s.
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