Krak grenade

A Krak grenade

Krak grenades are anti-tank weapons - the opposite of the anti-personnel frag grenade - designed to "crack" open armoured targets such as vehicles through a concentrated implosive blast.^[1] However, the krak grenade must be placed more carefully on the target than frag grenades, because their explosive radius is only half that of a frag grenade.^[2]

This class of grenade encompass a wide variety of shaped charges, Plasma detonators, and crude bombs, all intended to disable armoured vehicles.^[7]

Krak grenades are used by a multitude of factions including but not limited to the Imperial Guard^[3], Sisters of Battle^[4], loyal Space Marines^[5], Chaos Space Marines^[6] and the Orks^[8]

Images

A krak grenade in the arsenal of a Vanguard Veteran

See also

• Grenade

Sources

• 1: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, pg. 91
• 2: The Imperial Infantryman's Handbook, pg. 123
• 3: Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex), pg. 44
• 4: Codex: Witch Hunters (3rd Edition), pg. 34
• 5: Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 34
• 6: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 96
• 7: Liber Astartes (2nd Edition), pg. 143
• 8: Codex: Orks (3rd Edition), pg. 36