Editing Grappling hook (section)

=== Military ===
[[File:15th MEU Marines train in combined arms training 141208-M-ST621-015.jpg|thumb|A hook being used for demining]]

Grappling hooks are used by [[combat engineer]]s to breach tactical obstacles. When used as such, the grappling hook is launched in front of an obstacle and dragged backwards to detonate [[tripwire]]-fused land mines, and can be hooked on wire obstacles and pulled to set off booby traps on the wire. The rifle-launched grapnel (LGH), a single-use grappling hook placed on the end of an [[M4 Carbine|M4]]/[[M16 rifle]], is used for this purpose.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/1999/SEP-DEC/pdfs/SEP-DEC99.pdf|title=The Launch Grapnel Hook (LGH)|magazine=Infantry Magazine|date=  September–December 1999|volume=89|issue=3|pages=4–5|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125102044/http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/1999/SEP-DEC/pdfs/SEP-DEC99.pdf|archive-date=25 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US5448937.pdf|title=US5448937.pdf|website=docs.google.com}}</ref> A [[crossbow]]-launched version has been produced.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.saa-intl.com/products/crossbow.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715221520/http://www.saa-intl.com/products/crossbow.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 July 2011|title=SAA International, Ltd.|date=15 July 2011}}</ref> A grapnel can clear up to 99% of the trip-wires in a single pass.<ref name=FM3_34x2>Field Manual 3–34.2 ''Combined Arms Breaching Operations.'' 31 August 2000. Para. C-57 and Table C-2</ref> During [[World War II|WW2]] British and German ships towed grappling hooks in the hope of snagging or damaging enemy submarines,<ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief History of Anti-Submarine Warfare |url=https://www.globecomposite.com/blog/history-anti-submarine-warfare |website=Globe Composite |access-date=14 September 2019}}</ref> a tactic also employed by the Japanese.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McDonald |first1=Craig R. |title=The USS Puffer in World War II: A History of the Submarine and Its Wartime Crew |date=2007 |isbn=9780786432097 |page=68|publisher=McFarland }}</ref> Grappling hooks were used by soldiers at the [[D-Day]] landings to aid in climbing the cliffs at the Normandy beaches. Some were rocket-propelled and launched from mortars.<ref>{{cite book|title=Commandos and Rangers of World War II |first=James |last=Ladd |date= 1 January 1979 |isbn= 9781131235172 |page= 241}}</ref><ref name=dday>{{cite web | title=Rudder's Rangers and the Boys of Pointe du Hoc: The U.S. Army Rangers' Mission in the Early Morning Hours of 6 June 1944| website=US Army Historical Foundation | date=17 October 2016 | url=https://armyhistory.org/rudders-rangers-and-the-boys-of-pointe-du-hoc-the-u-s-army-rangers-mission-in-the-early-morning-hours-of-6-june-1944/|quote=Rocket-fired, grapnel-equipped ropes eventually become the primary tool of choice when ascending the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc.| access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref>