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That's easy, it's a frag, here's why...
1. The marine says "FRAG and clear." Frag is short for fragmentation.
2. When the grenade explodes, there is a large plume of fire. Flashbangs leave a small cloud of smoke after exploding, not a large fireball.
3. Flashbangs are non-lethal, to some extent anyway. If you watch, before the grenade is thrown there is no blood on the ground, after the explosion there are pools of glowing blood on the ground.
4. Many people say "why are they covering their eyes then?!", I think that if a fragmentation grenade exploded near me without killing me, I would be stunned. Don't you think that the combination of looking into the blast, hearing the boom of the detonation, and just feeling the pressure caused by the blast would cause a stun affect? Also, don't you think that shards of metal/dirt/dust could have been blinding them?
And this is a quote from Draerden on my post about this:
In support of this clarification I'll say what I've stated previously. Frag Grenades are quite capable of stunning an opponent. Explosions have a chance of temporarily deafening the target and disrupting equilibrium by a sudden changes in air pressure. In that same manner that your ears pop when you are taking off in an airplane only much more intense. That's why in movies you sometimes see a man crouch low, cover his ears and open his mouth. This is a classical position that best protects against such an effects.
This, likely, wouldn't work on the Master Chief who in an environmental armour would be immune to rapid pressure changes but the Grunts and Jackals are quite fair game.
[Edited on 4/26/2004 2:46:10 PM]