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The use of tripwire-triggered grenades (along with Claymores and landmines in general) is banned under the Ottawa Treaty and may be treated as a war crime wherever it is ratified.
Classical "pineapple" grenades, such as the Mills bomb, used smokeless powder and cast-iron shells, which (in theory) would fragment along deliberately cast weak points in the shell—although the pattern on the grenade body was actually intended to allow the user to have a firm grip on the grenade.
This means that the grenade has to hit the vehicle at an exact right angle for the effect to work properly, which is usually achieved by the grenade deploying a small drogue parachute or fabric streamers after being thrown.
The German Granatbüchse 39, an anti-tank rifle modified to serve as a grenade launcher was often used with wooden bulleted rounds instead of "blank" ballistite cartridges.
This may actually be feasible with a 40mm grenade since the fuse does not arm until 18 to 30m from the muzzle.
Overcalibre grenades fired by the 3BT could be designed with tails that fit inside rather than over the outside of the barrel, allowing the projectile to be spin-stabilized by the rifling.
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