Willy Pete

For the special grenade seen in other Call of Duty titles, see Smoke Grenade

"Smoke screen grenade that causes a small amount of damage on detonation."

- Create-a-Class 2.0 description

The Willy Pete (phonetic for White Phosporus) is a Tactical Grenade, featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Overview
The Willy Pete is a Smoke Grenade, which instantly emits a large smokescreen for roughly 8-9 seconds. Willy Pete is slang for White Phosphorus, which releases waxy particles which ignite at 5000 degrees, causing horrendous burns. In Call of Duty, however, White Phosphorous grenades barely cause any damage and are used strictly for screening.

Single Player
White Phosphorus is used as a signal for friendlies to place attacks, such as the Artillery in "Project Nova". It also is the special grenade in "Executive Order."

Multiplayer
In Multiplayer, the Willy Pete is a tactical grenade and is available as soon as Create-A-Class is unlocked at level 4. It causes a small amount of damage and temporarly stuns those near its detonation, but does not harm players as it is emitting smoke. It is used to screen players' movements and to create distractions in order to get the enemies attention. It can even be used as a limited version of Concussion Grenade to slow down enemy targets. As with the other smoke grenades in previous games of the series, the Willy Pete is the only tactical grenade to not receive an extra grenade from certain perks such as Warlord Pro.

Trivia

 * While the smoke grenade in Project Nova bears resemblence to Willy Petes.