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n. A flashbang.
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A stun grenade, also known as a flash grenade, flashbang or sound bomb, is a non-lethal explosive device used to temporarily disorient an enemy's senses. It is designed to produce a blinding flash of light and an intensely loud "bang" of greater than 170 decibels (dB) without causing permanent injury. It was first used by the British Army's SAS in the late 1970s.
The flash produced momentarily activates all photoreceptor cells in the eye, making vision impossible for approximately five seconds, until the eye restores itself to its normal, unstimulated state. An afterimage will also be visible for a considerable time, impairing the victim's ability to aim with precision. The loud blast is meant to cause temporary loss of hearing, and also disturbs the fluid in the ear, causing loss of balance.
The concussive blast of the detonation can still injure, and the heat created can ignite flammable materials such as fuel. The fires that occurred during the Iranian Embassy siege in London were caused by stun grenades.
Usage examples of "stun grenade".
Pulling a shock-stun grenade from a thigh pocket, he lobbed it in.
The big man took a stun grenade from his field webbing pouch, tapped the arming code, and tossed the grenade up the stairs to the first-floor landing.
Chakotay paused, bounced the stun grenade in his hand a few times, then continued.
Blancanales reached for a stun grenade, pulled the pin and lobbed it through a window, shattering the glass.
She ran a trip wire across the corridor, with one end tied to the pin of a stun grenade.
Addled by a stun grenade, he couldn't think what those letters meant.
He held his fingers apart to indicate something roughly the size of an implode-stun grenade.
Fel could only hope he was alert enough to remember to arm the stun grenade before he threw it.
In midstride Fett sent a stun grenade arcing through the air and into the guardhouse.
Dillon saw him, cried a warning, and pulled the pin on a stun grenade and rolled it down the corridor.
Braun jumped into a nearby alcove, and the stun grenade went straight through the archway at the end of the corridor and fell down the stairwell, exploding.
Not designed to kill, the stun grenade hadn't produced much heat except in the immediate vicinity of the explosion.
Were going to lay down a suppressing fire while Larens, here--- she nodded at a short, slight, very agile soldier, crawls under our fire until he in range to toss a stun grenade right into the middle of that nest of vermin.
Larens dropped down, pre-pared to scuttle forward, the stun grenade held in his teeth.
Darman took out the stun grenade and the mini EMP: she might have droids in there, too.