angrymeerkat wrote:

 

I'm presuming you've never actually seen a flashbang in real life?

 

They actually consist of 7-8 individual explosions (the bang) that detonate over a roughly 4 second period.

 

There is also a flash element (magnesium if I remember right) that gives off approx. 300,000 candlepower. If you are in the same room as this thing when it goes off, you are gonna be temporarily blinded regardless of where you look

This.

People are idiots. What they're saying is akin to saying not looking directly at a lightbulb and you can't see it's light.

Newsflash:  Light Bounces.  See your hand?  They don't glow(derp), the light coming off them is bouncing off the lights in your room or atleast your monitor.  In brighter light, they reflect more light.  A sunny day at the beach, yeah, pretty bright.  That sunny beach is 100,000 candlepower, or lux.

A stun(or flash[they're the same thing]) grenade, depending on manufacturer, can reach 3 to 20 times that amount, that's 300,000 - 2,000,000 lux. (and throw off 200db, and concuss(ie pressure)).

Under that kind of blast, everything around you, even if the grenade is behind you, is brilliantly lit as if it were sunny beach, 20 times over...Yes, that will blind you temporarily.  Looking away from the direct flash will save you permanent blindness(or atleast prolonged blindness), yes, but will not relieve the stun effect.

Now, I would like if they were more effective on people in the dark, and less effective on people who are out in direct sunlight, to reflect reality in that people who's iris' are not dilated to admit light get affected less.(The concussion and sound are less dangerous in open area's as well, but hell in an enclosed space)