Fact 2241 — grenade blasts in films
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Films often show a grenade blast throwing people across a room. For a typical fragmentation grenade, the main danger is high-speed fragments from its body, rather than a wave that launches a person through the air. Blast pressure can still cause injury, especially in enclosed spaces, so the accurate point is that fragments are the primary hazard, not that blast pressure is harmless.