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UNIT Fragmentation Grenades

Three olive-drab cylindrical canisters with yellow safety levers gripped in hasty fingers. Their metal casings feel cold against sweaty palms as soldiers yank the priming pins, their hollow detonations echoing against threats without visible harm. The spent casings skitter across cracked tarmac, safety levers crushed flat—a testament to desperate extraction under fire. Represent UNIT’s last tactical resort against unstoppable threats, revealing military vulnerability in the face of temporal anomalies. Failed deployment underscores brute-force inadequacy when confronting forces beyond conventional understanding.
4 appearances

Purpose

Area-denial saturation munitions for eliminating biological hazards through concentrated explosive force, calculated to suppress infestations with minimal penetration requirements.

Significance

Signals the military’s catastrophic shift from containment to annihilation, where human cost becomes an acceptable variable in the eradication of the Green Death threat. Benton’s acknowledgment under RAF coordination marks their transformation from defensive tools into instruments of scorched-earth policy.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

4 moments
S10E24 · The Green Death Part 4
Brigadier orders RAF strike to bomb infestation

UNIT high-explosive grenades are designated as the ordnance for the impending RAF strike. These olive-drab cylinders with yellow safety pins are deployed as industrial-scale disinfectants, their lethal payload set to sterilize the infested landscape with shrapnel and overpressure.

Before: Stored in UNIT field depots near the slag heap, awaiting deployment authorization
After: Loaded on RAF aircraft for imminent delivery over the target area
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S10E25 · The Green Death Part 5
Jo and Jones take shelter from the barrage

UNIT high-explosive grenades rain down from the greyhound helicopter, turning the slag heap into a killing ground of shrapnel and collapsing debris. The detonations create deadly fireballs that force Jo and Jones to zigzag across the unstable terrain, their survival dependent on outpacing both the explosions' lethal zones and the showers of jagged rock.

Before: Stored in the helicopter's payload, armed and ready for deployment
After: Detonated across the slag heap, their payloads spent in the bombardment
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S11E5 · Invasion of the Dinosaurs Part 1
Soldier reports T-Rex threat neutralized

The soldier rips the safeties from three olive canisters and lobs them underhand at the charging predator. Muffled thuds barely exceed the beast's roar before yellow levers snap off and violent geysers of smoke erupt against its scaled hide. The blasts register as glancing blows rather than blows that harm, yet the seismic shock tilts the creature's forward momentum sideways.

Before: Armed and held in the soldier’s webbed equipment pouch, one grenade already half-drawn.
After: Three empty casings lie skittering on the cracked road; yellow safety levers crushed flat.
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S11E7 · Invasion of the Dinosaurs Part 3
Brigadier Yates stops the T-Rex attack

UNIT fragmentation grenades detonate near the Doctor and the T-Rex, disorienting both and inadvertently accelerating the Doctor’s vulnerability while fueling the creature’s aggression. Their spent casings litter the cracked tarmac as chaos peaks.

Before: Primed and deployed in soldiers' hands
After: Detonated, casings scattered and inert
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