Practice grenade RFX55

[MINENAZ16]

Hello,
I saw different practice grenades (M26 shape) with marking RFX55 and below M8, M12, R7, N12, P8, T5. etc.
What is the official designation ?

 

[ron3350]

Hello,
I saw different practice grenades (M26 shape) with marking RFX55 and below M8, M12, R7, N12, P8, T5. etc.
What is the official designation ?

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It looks like a normal M30 Practice grenade from Richmond Foundry, Virginia,USA.
No idea about the M8 but could be a batch code? I also would like to know the meaning.

 

[sgdbdr]

Hi,

RFX does not appear in MIL-HDBK-1461A (1999), MIL-HDBK-1461 (1998) or MIL-STD-1461E (1990)
Does someone has pdf versions of older MIL-STDs 1461 ? (I'm gessing there are A, B, C, and D).
What was before MIL-STD 1461 ?

Cheers,

S

 

[batonroundcollector]

It looks like a normal M30 Practice grenade from Richmond Foundry, Virginia,USA.
No idea about the M8 but could be a batch code? I also would like to know the meaning.

The 'RFX' denotes Richmond Foundry then?

 

[Eggburt1969]

Hello,
I saw different practice grenades (M26 shape) with marking RFX55 and below M8, M12, R7, N12, P8, T5. etc.
What is the official designation ?

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I have it in the database as the M30 practice grenade (link). If it had the additional (jungle) safety clip around the safety lever, that would have made it an M62 (link).

You can get other codes too. The image below being a screenshot of page 20 of the 1969 edition of 'FM 23-30 - Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals'. If you search on line you can get many others.

 

[ron3350]

The 'RFX' denotes Richmond Foundry then?

The RFX identification came from D.Lynn American Grenade manual Vol 1A! from 2016. List of makers in the back of this book.
I posted the M30 Practice grenade in BOCN on July 12 2020 with photos of container and box if you wish to look it up.

Here is anotherM30 I assume is Australian as it was loaded at MY in 1966? but first number is a bit unclear.
It is unusual for the brown band to be on the lower part of the body. Impressed twice: R65. Unknown maker.