civilian legal grenades let's see what they're all about
how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel in this video we're going to
be taking a look at a series of civilian legal grenades now all of these came from a company
called iwa international now iwa is a company based in miami florida that imports these into the
country from the uk these are marketed to shooters police departments and people that are going to be
using these in real world environments so that's the way we're going to treat this review today
and they have a pretty good selection of different devices that we're going to be talking
about today we have their m14 smoke grenade we have the m13 thermobaric device now this
is going to be basically a flashbang it's going to give you a bang and a bright flash at the same
time then we have the m12 distraction device this is going to be a single bang and then we have the
m11 thermobaric multibang which is going to give you four bangs now we're going to take a look
at each of these individually and talk about what exactly they do then we're going to test them for
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the m14 smoke deployment grenade now right off the bat the first thing i really like about these is
just the design and the function of the way these work but you do have traditional pin and spoon
which is very reminiscent of what you would see from your standard military issue type grenades
now these are constructed of a tough plastic and you can see this outer cardboard sleeve here now
the size and shape of this is designed to fit into most of your smoke and flashbang grenade pouches
that you find on the market and they did design this to be somewhat waterproofed i'm not sure
exactly to what level that is now like i said the m14 is their smoke grenade as you can see
this one here is going to be a purple smoke they do offer these in several different colors you
can get them in white red green blue orange and purple and so what's going to happen once you pull
this pin you're going to hold down that spoon and then when you throw it you let go of that spoon
and that's going to trigger the ignition and then you're going to have 2.5 seconds before it starts
and they do advertise a smoke emission time of around 45 to 55 seconds so that
is very respectable it is supposed to be a nice large cloud of dense smoke and we will
definitely test that out for you guys in just a minute the next one we're going to look at
is the m13 thermobaric device now like i said this one here is designed to be basically a flashbang
so iwa says that it's designed to give a loud report and a very bright flash
it works just the same as the other once you pull the pin and toss it you're going to have a two and
a half second fuse burn time and the sound level they say this puts out should be 126 decibels so
that's nice and loud nice loud report now they don't give you any indication of how bright that
flash is but like i said we are going to test that out for you guys here in just a minute and just
so you know they advertise a safety distance of five meters from this once you throw it
next one we're looking at is the m12 distraction device now this is going to be just a single bang
at 124 decibels so still nice and loud all the other specs of this are the same and last but
not least this is the one i'm really excited to look at this is the m11 thermobaric multi-bangs
so this one like i said is going to give you four bangs each of those is reported to be at
124 decibels so while that single bang grenade is definitely going to be a good distraction device
i think this multi-bang is definitely pretty interesting and i can't wait to see how that works
all right guys now that first one we're going to be testing is that m14 smoke grenade before
we do that i just want to give you guys a quick little tutorial on how to do this so you might
can see here that the pen does have a little bit of a safety on it so what you're going to do is
you're going to twist this in a counterclockwise motion then you're going to pull that pin out and
as long as you're holding down that spoon it's not going to deploy yet once you toss it that
that spoon deploys and then you should start to get some smoke after about two and a half seconds
now just so we have something to compare this to i'm gonna be also setting off
a enola gay 18x smoke grenade this is probably one of the most popular smoke grenades on the
civilian market used a lot in milsim paintball all that kind of stuff these are great smoke
grenades i've been using these for a long time and i i just want to do a comparison and see how
the m14 from iwa stacks up against that anolegue 18x let's do it
so
all right not bad guys hopefully i got that in frame for you and as you can tell we do have some
wind out here today so that's kind of pushing that smoke but i will say it was a good thick smoke now
i wasn't totally satisfied with that comparison because of the way the wind really swept up that
first m14 grenade so i am going to try this one more time and give that iwa another shot
foreign
now let's try the nola gay
all right guys now the wind kind of helped out the enola gay on that one kind of pushed the smoke
straight towards the camera but i will put those side by side so you can see
exactly how they stack up
so all right guys now we're going to test out our flashbang grenade
all right guys now we're going to try out the m12 distraction device that's the single bang
and the m11 multibang now the reason we are inside is because this is more typical of where you would
use something like this is in an enclosed space so you can get the most report from that bang
so we're going to get in here and now i do have hearing protection for this part because i'm
not trying to blow my ears out let's give them a try this is going to be the m12 the single bang
all right guys now we did get a little bit of a flash from that as well
uh so this is the one i'm really excited to check out this is the m11 multibang
all right now i don't know about you guys but i was pretty impressed with the results
i will say i think the smoke grenade was just okay uh but it did just fine and i think it
would get the job done the single bang was cool as well but the ones that i was most impressed
with was the flash bang that one was really cool nice and bright nice and loud especially in that
dark shop and then of course the multi bang because four bangs is always better than one
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