35[1] is a hand grenade that was first issued to the Royal Italian Army in 1935, serving through World War II and into the 1980s.

35 represented the new generation of hand grenades with which the Royal Italian Army faced World War II.

[4] The outer shell of the grenade is aluminium, containing 43 g (1.5 oz) of TNT and dinitronaphthalene with an internal wire wrapped around it that turns into shrapnel at the time of the explosion.

A small chain inside the cap acted as a second safety, pulling away and preparing the grenade for detonation.

Unlike almost all other grenades of the 20th century, the Red Devil did not use a timed chemical reaction to ignite the explosive filler.

In North Africa, British forces during World War II would find these red-painted hand grenades undetonated.