Fragmentation (weaponry)
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Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, autocannon shell, rocket, missi
Grooved body of a Second World War-era U.S. Mk 2 grenade. The grooves covering the exterior of the grenade are used to aid in the gripping of the grenade when throwing. The grooves were also intended to aid in fragmentation but studies showed this was ineffective.
Internals of a AGM-114 Hellfire missile, showing its pre-cut fragmentation sleeve around a hollow shaped charge
An illustration of a fragmentation bomb from the 14th century Ming Dynasty text Huolongjing. The black dots represent iron pellets.
Artillery shell fragment from the Gulf War
S-mine
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The German S-mine, known by enemy Allied Forces as the "Bouncing Betty" on the Western Front and "frog-mine" on the Eastern Front, is the best-known version of a class of mines known as bounding mines
An American paratrooper in the process of removing a live S-mine. On the left is a Mark I trench knife.
S-mine in a museum
American paratrooper using a knife to probe for mines
Smine diagram