Macrae, Ismay and Churchill all saw fit to record these arguments over the technical issue of stickiness.[21] As Eden had pointed out, there was a lot at stake. The British infantry and Home Guard had little with which to put up a fight against tanks and to any who had witnessed trials of Molotov cocktails and SIP grenades it was evident that they could do little to a modern tank other than to provide a blinding pall of smoke.[22] What was needed was a hand weapon to deliver a coup de grâce by punching through the armoured plate.