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DDR Practice Grenade

MissingSomething

MissingSomething

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So i was surfing fleebay and found this...

Advertised as DDR throwing devices... Anyone seen these before.... not in any literature that I have... any shed light would be helpfull....

No markings on anything....:neutral:

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Have never seen those in East Germany. I assume it to be from elsewhere (still bearing the chance of being wrong).
 
Is definitly East-German (DDR). It was diecast from aluminium, full metal, not hollow inside.
Normally it was unpaint (factory-delivered like this).
non-official Variations that have been made up:
Sometimes paint in red (RAL 3000) or dark green, some specimen that Ive seen had a hole for a safety-pin.
 
Hi "MissingSomething",
give me some time I can prepare some further information, but please be prepared that I also didnt find an East German-Grenade Manual that covers their own designs. The strange thing - in my view - is, that both original Grenade-manual that I own do only describe russian grenade-designs. Here what Ive:
If you want to check at ebay for example for a good Original-Manual (no fotocopy), you should look for some synonyms like "Dienstvorschrift" (original instruction-sheet in German language) and what youll need is:
1.) A 050/1/482 Handgranaten, Beschreibung und Nutzung, printed 1980, should be around 10-15 EUR Original-Manual (no fotocopy)
2.) DV-20/8 Handgranten, printed 1958, nearly no chance to find, should be normally destroyed after the release of the later revision - but... 1.) is from infromation even better
 
i have also seen these somewhere described as East German... clearly this is meant to resemble the RGD-5 (assume this was the DDR's offensive gren, opposite F1 frag?).

the DDR did produce solid grenades for throwing practice (wood and metal stick grens, hollow red-painted F1 bodies) but think these were for GST (Gesellschaft fr Sport und Technik) use i.e. for military-orientated sports rather than for training by the NVA (Army) in the use of grens.
 
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