M75 hand grenade


The M75 grenade is a Yugoslav hand grenade, efficient in trenches, forests and bunkers.

Design

The grenade consists of a body, an explosive charge and "mouse trap" style fuse mechanism, all contained in a plastic transportation can.
The core contains 3,000 steel balls with a diameter of with an effective killing radius of, and a casualty radius of. The explosive charge is of plastic explosive.
The fuse, named "bušon" in Serbian, has a delay time of 3 to 4.4 seconds. Its name comes from the Serbian word for a spoon, "kašika". In American English, the lever of the grenade is colloquially known as the "spoon".

Variant

M-93

production variant.

Criminal usage

Croatia

In 2021, one M75 hand grenade was used in Pakrac, Croatia.
Milorad Arsenić, a former member of Serbian paramilitary forces in Croatia attacked three employees of Croatian power company HEP that came to disconnect his power for unpaid bills.
In 2024, an M75 hand grenade exploded at a party in Knin, Croatia, killing a 25-year-old man and injuring four others.

Kosovo

In 2023, one M75 hand grenade was used in the ethnically-mixed 'Bosniak Neighborhood' in North Mitrovica, Kosovo.
A car was damaged, in what minister of interior Xhelal Sveçla claimed to be an attack by criminal structures in reaction to the arrest of 3 ethnic Serbs in the town of Vushtrri, suspected of war crimes in the Kosovo War.

Sweden

A shipment of leftover M75 grenades from the Yugoslav Wars was taken to Sweden and sold for as little as 20 kronor to organised criminals and street gangs, who have been using them in numerous attacks since 2008.

England

M75 grenades were used by criminal families in England, including an attack that killed two police officers in 2012.

Belgium

In 2018, two M75 hand grenades were used in Deurne, Antwerp. The attack is possibly linked to a drug war in Antwerp.

Germany

In 2001, the M75 was used to attack the VIP-Area of a Club in Hamburg. 9 People were injured, including the singer of Lord of the Lost, Chris Harms.
The M75 was used during a gang war in the region around Stuttgart in 2023. During a funeral of a gang member at the cemetery of Altbach near Esslingen, a member of a rival gang threw one M75 at the mourners. The grenade bounced of a tree branch, throwing it off course, and exploded near the growed, still leaving 15 people injured. According to police reports, a direct hit would have led to 20+ fatalities.