page_title: United States hand grenades
section_title: XM48/E1/E2/E3
hierarchical_section_title: United States hand grenades / Smoke and signaling grenades / XM48/E1/E2/E3
context_page_description: The military of the United States has used many of different types of hand grenades since its foundation. Presented on this page is a basic overview.
context_section_description: A variant of the XM47 series, which is in the following section, the XM48 is a skittering type smoke grenade: the filler is burned internally and vented through ports in the grenade body, making the grenade spin erratically. The XM48 series burns an unknown filler for a red-colored smoke, probably WP or HC based, and is not known to be standardized.
caption: Drawing of the Mk 1 Illumination Grenade
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