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	! rowspan=2 style="width:50px" \| [[Factions]]		! rowspan=2 style="width:50px" \| [[Factions]]
	! rowspan=2 \| [[Weapon]]		! rowspan=2 \| [[Weapon]]
	! rowspan=2 \| Icon		! rowspan=2 \| Icon
	! rowspan=2 \| [[Classes]]		! rowspan=2 \| [[Classes]]
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	! ~~Range~~!! Duration		! Smoke Radius!! Duration!! Color
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	\|-		\|[[File:Flag_us_new.png\|50px]]<br><strong>[[US]]</strong>\|\| [[File:Smoke r.png\|150px]]<br><b>[[M18 Smoke]]</b> \|\| [[File:Weapon_m18r.svg\|170px]] \|\| [[File:Class_Assault.png\|50px]] <b>[[Assault]]</b><br>[[File:Class_medic.png\|50px]] <b>[[Medic]]</b><br>[[File:Class_Gunner.png\|50px]] <b>[[Gunner]]</b><br>[[File:Class_sniper.png\|50px]] <b>[[Sniper]]</b><br> \|\| 500 \|\| 10 seconds \|\| Red, green, yellow, violet
	\|[[File:Flag_us_new.png\|50px]]<br><strong>[[US]]</strong>\|\| [[File:Smoke r.png\|~~212px~~]]<br><b>[[M18 Smoke]]</b> \|\| [[File:~~weapon_m18~~.svg\|~~270px~~]] \|\| [[File:Class_Assault.png\|50px]] <b>[[Assault]]</b><br> [[File:Class_medic.png\|50px]] <b>[[Medic]]</b><br> [[File:Class_Gunner.png\|50px]] <b>[[Gunner]]</b><br> [[File:Class_sniper.png\|50px]] <b>[[Sniper]]</b><br> \|\| \|\|
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	! ~~rowspan=2 \|~~ [[Designation]]		! [[Designation]]
	! ~~rowspan=2 \|~~ [[Weapon Type]]		! [[Weapon Type]]
	! ~~rowspan=2 \|~~ [[~~Fire Modes~~]]		! [[Place of Origin]]
	! ~~rowspan=2 \|~~ [[~~Fire Rate]]~~		! [[Weapon Script Name]]
	~~! rolspan=2 \| [[Bullet Spread °]]~~
	~~! rolspan=2 \| [[Range Modifier]]~~
	~~! rolspan=2 \| [[Muzzle Velocity]]~~
	~~! rolspan=2 \| [[Projectile weight]]~~
	~~! rolspan=2 \| [[Weight~~]]
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	\|~~[[]]~~\|\|[[]]\|\|~~Auto+Semi\|\| RPM\|\|° & °~~ [[~~ADS]]\|\|RM\|\| m/s\|\| g ( gr)\|\| kg ( lbs)~~		\|M18 Colored Smoke Grenade\|\|[[Smoke Grenade]]\|\|[[United States of America]]\|\|weapon_m18r
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	~~! rowspan=2 \| Full name~~
	~~! rowspan=2 \| [[Caliber]]~~
	~~! rowspan=2 \| [[Place~~ of ~~Origin]]~~
	~~! rowspan=2 \| [[Date~~]]
	~~! rowspan=2 \| [[Armory]]~~
	~~! rowspan=2 \| Barrel Length~~
	~~! rowspan=2 \| Total Length~~
	~~! rowspan=2 \| [[Weapon Script Name]]~~
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	~~\|FN\|\|CAL\|\|[[PoO]]\|\|D8\|\|ARM\|\| in ( mm)\|\| in ( mm)~~\|\|weapon_m18r
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			'''M18 Smoke''' is a U.S. colored smoke grenade. It fills the same basic role as [[AN-M8 Smoke]], but uses colored smoke for marking positions, signaling, or making a location stand out.

			==In-Game Function==
			M18 Smoke is thrown like a grenade and produces colored smoke after a short fuse. It has a smoke radius of 500 and lasts 10 seconds. The available smoke colors are red, green, yellow, and violet. It is available to the U.S. [[Assault]], [[Medic]], [[Gunner]], and [[Sniper]] classes.

			==HISTORY==

			The real M18 colored smoke grenade was a U.S. hand-thrown smoke grenade built for signaling. Instead of making only a white smoke screen, it could be filled for red, green, yellow, or violet smoke. That made it useful for marking friendly positions, landing zones, extraction points, and targets that needed to be recognized from the air or at a distance.

			Like the [[AN-M8 Smoke\|AN-M8]], the M18 was a burning-type smoke grenade rather than a bursting explosive grenade. U.S. ordnance references describe it as a thin sheet-metal grenade using a pyrotechnic delay-igniting fuze and colored smoke mixture, with real smoke output lasting about 50 to 90 seconds.

			Colored smoke was especially useful in the [[Vietnam War]], where aircraft and ground units often had to coordinate through jungle cover, uneven terrain, and confusing contact. The M18 was not the best choice when a unit simply needed a thick white screen, but it was valuable when the color itself carried the message.

			===Sources===
			* [https://www.bulletpicker.com/grenade_-hand_-smoke_-m18.html Grenade, Hand, Smoke, M18 \| Bulletpicker]
			* [https://home.army.mil/bliss/4615/4776/0094/Grenades.pdf Ordnance Technical Data Sheet \| U.S. Army]
			* [https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/281D394F-2572-4719-9761-D64FF79E5C26-1385476058812/tc3_23x30wc1.pdf TC 3-23.30 Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals \| U.S. Army]
			* [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M18_Colored_Smoke_Grenade M18 Colored Smoke Grenade \| Wikimedia Commons]

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	File:Yellow M18 with Carboard Container.jpg\|A Yellow M18 colored smoke grenade with it's carboard container tube.		File:Yellow M18 with Carboard Container.jpg\|A Yellow M18 colored smoke grenade with it's carboard container tube.
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	~~File:M18 Violet Smoke Grenade.jpg\|An M18 violet smoke grenade was ignited.~~
	File:Yellow M18 with Carboard Container.jpg\|A Yellow M18 colored smoke grenade with it's carboard container tube.		File:Yellow M18 with Carboard Container.jpg\|A Yellow M18 colored smoke grenade with it's carboard container tube.
	~~File:M18 grenade.gif\|Drawing of an American M18 smoke grenade.~~
	File:Andrews bomb squad trains ANG neighbors 140417-F-CX842-034 (M18 smoke grenade crop).jpg\|A member of the 11th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit prepares M18 smoke grenades for training here, April 17. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Cloys) Image cropped to focus on M18 grenade.		File:Andrews bomb squad trains ANG neighbors 140417-F-CX842-034 (M18 smoke grenade crop).jpg\|A member of the 11th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit prepares M18 smoke grenades for training here, April 17. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Cloys) Image cropped to focus on M18 grenade.
	File:NARA 111-CCV-349-CC43096 Smoke grenade identifies landing zone for 101st Airborne UH-1D carrying brigade commander Operation Cook 1967.jpg\|Operation “Cook”, was a search and destroy mission conducted in the mountains of Quang Ngai Province, RVN about 320 miles NE of Saigon.		File:NARA 111-CCV-349-CC43096 Smoke grenade identifies landing zone for 101st Airborne UH-1D carrying brigade commander Operation Cook 1967.jpg\|Operation “Cook”, was a search and destroy mission conducted in the mountains of Quang Ngai Province, RVN about 320 miles NE of Saigon.
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	File:Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry aerorifle platoon uses a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters.jpg\|Members of an aerorifle platoon from Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, 4th Inf Div, use a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters to the landing zone after completing a search and clear operation in the mountains south of Fire Support Base "Action." NARA 1...		File:Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry aerorifle platoon uses a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters.jpg\|Members of an aerorifle platoon from Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, 4th Inf Div, use a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters to the landing zone after completing a search and clear operation in the mountains south of Fire Support Base "Action." NARA 1...
	File:Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry radioman's pack.jpg\|SP5 Thomas Smith, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Division, carries an AN/PRC-25 radio (rear view) and smoke grenades on his back during a sweep near the village of Xuan To Troung, Gia Dinh Province, approximately 7 kilometers southwest of Sai...		File:Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry radioman's pack.jpg\|SP5 Thomas Smith, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Division, carries an AN/PRC-25 radio (rear view) and smoke grenades on his back during a sweep near the village of Xuan To Troung, Gia Dinh Province, approximately 7 kilometers southwest of Sai...
			File:M18 grenade.gif\|Drawing of an American M18 smoke grenade.
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	File:		File:M18 Violet Smoke Grenade.jpg\|An M18 violet smoke grenade was ignited.
			File:Yellow M18 with Carboard Container.jpg\|A Yellow M18 colored smoke grenade with it's carboard container tube.
			File:M18 grenade.gif\|Drawing of an American M18 smoke grenade.
			File:Andrews bomb squad trains ANG neighbors 140417-F-CX842-034 (M18 smoke grenade crop).jpg\|A member of the 11th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit prepares M18 smoke grenades for training here, April 17. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Cloys) Image cropped to focus on M18 grenade.
			File:NARA 111-CCV-349-CC43096 Smoke grenade identifies landing zone for 101st Airborne UH-1D carrying brigade commander Operation Cook 1967.jpg\|Operation “Cook”, was a search and destroy mission conducted in the mountains of Quang Ngai Province, RVN about 320 miles NE of Saigon.
			File:Signal smoke at Firebase Ripcord.jpg\|Members of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, "pop" a smoke grenade to guide in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter which is bringing supplies to Fire Support Base Ripcord. NARA 111-CCV-626-CC70183
			File:Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry aerorifle platoon uses a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters.jpg\|Members of an aerorifle platoon from Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, 4th Inf Div, use a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters to the landing zone after completing a search and clear operation in the mountains south of Fire Support Base "Action." NARA 1...
			File:Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry radioman's pack.jpg\|SP5 Thomas Smith, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Division, carries an AN/PRC-25 radio (rear view) and smoke grenades on his back during a sweep near the village of Xuan To Troung, Gia Dinh Province, approximately 7 kilometers southwest of Sai...
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	\|[[File:Flag_us_new.png\|50px]]<br><strong>[[US]]</strong>\|\| [[File:~~M18~~.png\|212px]]<br><b>[[M18 Smoke]]</b> \|\| [[File:weapon_m18.svg\|270px]] \|\| [[File:Class_Assault.png\|50px]] <b>[[Assault]]</b><br> [[File:Class_medic.png\|50px]] <b>[[Medic]]</b><br> [[File:Class_Gunner.png\|50px]] <b>[[Gunner]]</b><br> [[File:Class_sniper.png\|50px]] <b>[[Sniper]]</b><br> \|\| \|\|		\|[[File:Flag_us_new.png\|50px]]<br><strong>[[US]]</strong>\|\| [[File:Smoke r.png\|212px]]<br><b>[[M18 Smoke]]</b> \|\| [[File:weapon_m18.svg\|270px]] \|\| [[File:Class_Assault.png\|50px]] <b>[[Assault]]</b><br> [[File:Class_medic.png\|50px]] <b>[[Medic]]</b><br> [[File:Class_Gunner.png\|50px]] <b>[[Gunner]]</b><br> [[File:Class_sniper.png\|50px]] <b>[[Sniper]]</b><br> \|\| \|\|
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	~~File:M18 Violet Smoke Grenade.jpg\|An M18 violet smoke grenade was ignited.~~
	File:Yellow M18 with Carboard Container.jpg\|A Yellow M18 colored smoke grenade with it's carboard container tube.		File:Yellow M18 with Carboard Container.jpg\|A Yellow M18 colored smoke grenade with it's carboard container tube.
	~~File:M18 grenade.gif\|Drawing of an American M18 smoke grenade.~~
	File:Andrews bomb squad trains ANG neighbors 140417-F-CX842-034 (M18 smoke grenade crop).jpg\|A member of the 11th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit prepares M18 smoke grenades for training here, April 17. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Cloys) Image cropped to focus on M18 grenade.		File:Andrews bomb squad trains ANG neighbors 140417-F-CX842-034 (M18 smoke grenade crop).jpg\|A member of the 11th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit prepares M18 smoke grenades for training here, April 17. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Cloys) Image cropped to focus on M18 grenade.
	File:NARA 111-CCV-349-CC43096 Smoke grenade identifies landing zone for 101st Airborne UH-1D carrying brigade commander Operation Cook 1967.jpg\|Operation “Cook”, was a search and destroy mission conducted in the mountains of Quang Ngai Province, RVN about 320 miles NE of Saigon.		File:NARA 111-CCV-349-CC43096 Smoke grenade identifies landing zone for 101st Airborne UH-1D carrying brigade commander Operation Cook 1967.jpg\|Operation “Cook”, was a search and destroy mission conducted in the mountains of Quang Ngai Province, RVN about 320 miles NE of Saigon.
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	File:Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry aerorifle platoon uses a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters.jpg\|Members of an aerorifle platoon from Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, 4th Inf Div, use a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters to the landing zone after completing a search and clear operation in the mountains south of Fire Support Base "Action." NARA 1...		File:Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry aerorifle platoon uses a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters.jpg\|Members of an aerorifle platoon from Troop D, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, 4th Inf Div, use a smoke grenade to guide in helicopters to the landing zone after completing a search and clear operation in the mountains south of Fire Support Base "Action." NARA 1...
	File:Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry radioman's pack.jpg\|SP5 Thomas Smith, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Division, carries an AN/PRC-25 radio (rear view) and smoke grenades on his back during a sweep near the village of Xuan To Troung, Gia Dinh Province, approximately 7 kilometers southwest of Sai...		File:Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry radioman's pack.jpg\|SP5 Thomas Smith, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Division, carries an AN/PRC-25 radio (rear view) and smoke grenades on his back during a sweep near the village of Xuan To Troung, Gia Dinh Province, approximately 7 kilometers southwest of Sai...
			File:M18 grenade.gif\|Drawing of an American M18 smoke grenade.
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