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BK-2H Blendkörper
« on: 17-11-2012, 07:11:33 »
According to what I know, over 5 million BK-2H's anti-tank grenades were produced with nearly all of them used, starting in 1943. It was a glass bottle inside another glass bottle, seperating two chemical solutions. Smashing it would cause a reaction creating smoke inside the tank through the hatches and other small openings and would usually force the crew to bail.

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Ähnliche Wirkung hatten die 1943 eingeführten Blendkörper. Das zuerst eingeführte Muster BK 1H war mit F-Stoff, wie das Titantetrachlond bezeichnet wurde, gefüllt, wog 0,37 kg und war mit seinem Durchmesser von 60 mm und 150 mm Länge etwas unhandlich. Dieser Blendkörper wurde, nachdem 225 200 Stück produziert waren, durch den BK 2H ersetzt.

Hier hatte man in einer 128 mm hohen Glasflasche, die 0,29 kg einer Mischung aus Titantetrachlorid/Siliziumtetrachlorid enthielt, als Gefrierschutz ein Reagenzglas mit 36 g Calciumchlorid eingesetzt, das mit einer Kittscheibe abgedeckt war. Wenn dieser 0,4 kg schwere Körper gegen ein Fahrzeug geworden wurde, erzielte man nicht nur eine Blendwirkung, sondern es bildete sich eine Nebelwolke, deren Reizwirkung die Besatzung zum Aussteigen zwingen sollte. Von diesen Blendkörpern gab es im März 1945 noch 1115 600 Stück an der Front, im Februar war beim Rückzug ein Lager mit 322 800 Stück verloren gegangen, und 103 500 Blendkörper befanden sich noch in den Zeugämtern.
So, this weighed 400 grams, with a 290 gram mixture of calcium chloride, titan tetrachloride, siliciumterachloride and was 128mm in length. What color mixture would that be though? Most photos show unstained bottles.

In 1943 2 million were produced, and in 1944 3 million were produced according to records.


In FH2 this could completely blind tankers and damage them over time. Either way, awesome weapon. I believe there is good enough reason to give it a go.

This grenade can be seen in action in the German army training film "Männer gegen Panzer" but I have not seen it myself.

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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #1 on: 17-11-2012, 08:11:11 »
Holy what, what an interesting design. So simple, yet so effective, thanks for showing me something I havn't seen yet.

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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #2 on: 17-11-2012, 10:11:40 »
Looks like a lightbulb, but cool.  ;)

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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #3 on: 17-11-2012, 11:11:15 »
It was a glass bottle inside another glass bottle
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #4 on: 17-11-2012, 11:11:00 »
Yo dawg, I heard you like bottles so I put a bottle inside a bottle so you can have a bottle and have a bottle at the same time!

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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #5 on: 17-11-2012, 11:11:24 »
I have seen that training film, and IIRC it produced a thick, caustic smoke cloud when thrown onto a tank
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #6 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:13 »
why use it against tanks  ;D


Its like back then, i found out the PIAT was ment to fight tanks.not infantry  ;D
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #7 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:09 »
Interesting but how would we implement it? If you throw it at a tank...the driver starts losing health?
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #8 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:11 »
Interesting but how would we implement it? If you throw it at a tank...the driver starts losing health?
Personally not a bad idea. Make it so that the driver is forced to leave the area otherwise he faces death. Quite handy against camping tank whores
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #9 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:21 »
Yeah, would be quite effective versus the overwhelming number of Allied tank whores  ;).

Nice suggestion though!

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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #10 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:13 »
Interesting but how would we implement it? If you throw it at a tank...the driver starts losing health?

Is that even possible to do? IIRC the "driver" is non existent when driving a tank, i.e. you become the tank when entering one... At least the devs said that the last time when we asked for crew damage...
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #11 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:44 »
Yeah, would be quite effective versus the overwhelming number of Allied tank whores  ;).

Wait what this is a german weapon?

I declare this non needed!
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #12 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:08 »
Interesting but how would we implement it? If you throw it at a tank...the driver starts losing health?

...and blind him....
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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #13 on: 17-11-2012, 12:11:27 »
Interesting but how would we implement it? If you throw it at a tank...the driver starts losing health?

Is that even possible to do? IIRC the "driver" is non existent when driving a tank, i.e. you become the tank when entering one... At least the devs said that the last time when we asked for crew damage...

I remember from vbf2 you could die as a pilot, and of course you can die as a driver in jeeps. there must be something possible here

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Re: BK-2H Blendkörper
« Reply #14 on: 17-11-2012, 15:11:05 »
Yeah, would be quite effective versus the overwhelming number of Allied tank whores  ;).

Wait what this is a german weapon?

I declare this non needed!

One of my reasons for having this new weapon is for new maps, particularily on ones that won't have many German AT guns or tanks but an overwhelming force of enemy tanks. So with more infantry weapons we can have Infantry vs Tanks and still have balance.