Chairsoft ShotShow 2010 Review

Carlton Chong Airsoft Innovations Inventor

Sharing the booth along with Spartan Imports was Airsoft Innovations and Carlton Chong, Inventor of the Tornado Grenade. Carlton was there to preview the new TORNADO IMPACT GRENADE.

Modelled from the Tornado Timer Grenade, this grenade uses the same bb loading and dispersal system. The brilliance is in the inside.

As Carlton described, what he called “the shuttle” and “the stack”. The shuttle which is a nylon material with oring’ed disks on the top and the bottom press against the 4 steel machined parts which is “the stack”. I won’t get into too much of the technical details such as equal pressure and how the stack operates, but once you pull the top pin activating “the stack” and throw the grenade, the force of the impact in any direction makes “the stack” unstable releasing the shuttle, and expelling all the bb’s from the grenade. Resetting the TORNADO IMPACT GRENADE is quite simple as the whole top cap unscrews to reveal the stack. Players will stick the activating pin through the top cap, thread the stack in the correct order and voila! the grenade is ready to go.

I had also asked him on the progress of the “bouncing betty” and the m203 design and said that the m203 is already on the design table and the bouncing betty, when released, will be an add on to the Tornado timed grenade. There is no release date on the m203 version as there are several design issues that need to be worked out. The TORNADO IMPACT GRENADE is available in red and black colors and its release date is late February. Thanks to Carlton Chong who gave me a full breakdown of the grenade!