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RGD-5 Rifle Grenades

Siegfried is correct. East German. I was on a Russian base in East Germany back in '94 when I was shown them and had the chance to get my hands on one.
 
Ivashkin said:
I sow photos from Moldova, where used rig\fle RGD-5, but for automat Kalashnikova.
And moder photos from Syria.But rifle AK from Syria produced in Yugo, as I know.
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The Moldovans used regular RGD-5 in launcher cups which had a side loop for the lever to keep it "safe" while not fired. No relation to this one.
 
jvollenberg said:
Is there any documentation on the Red one with the holes?

Joe
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Red ones with and without holes are practice. The one with holes allows a spotting charge and has a working fuze mechanizm while the red one without holes is all inert and there is no fuze forseen as the tail section prodtrudes into the grenade body with a plastic nose/rod.
 
... live ones have according to the manual all fins and plastic-parts made of white plastic, practice grenades with spotting-charge had black fins with white plastic bottom part, all inert practice had black fins and black plastic bottom part (acc. to user manual) but can also be find with white plastic-bottom-part (maybe put together from spare-parts when the East-german-equipment was sold ???).
Practice-body with holes for the spotting-charge has much smaller srew cut-into the gren.body than the all inert Practice grenade body, so that the tail-units (fins, fuze and bottom-part) are not interchangable.
From interest:
- all manuals ever seen are from the "Volkspolizei" (Police-Units) but Ive never seen any evidence that the item was used at regular army units.
- SPLITTERGRANATE (fragmentation-grenade) had in the east-german army the definition that also the relatively thin housing of the RGD-5 grenade which did not have any extra fragmentation-coil inside like the RG-42, was considered as a fragmentation grenade.
- variations with an F1-grenade-body are phantasy-products

Cheers,

Ralf
 
EOD said:
Red ones with and without holes are practice. The one with holes allows a spotting charge and has a working fuze mechanizm while the red one without holes is all inert and there is no fuze forseen as the tail section prodtrudes into the grenade body with a plastic nose/rod.
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Here are some pictures of a box that I have for the practice ones with spotting charge and holes, It's empty now but when I got it about 10 years ago, it had about 12 grenades in it, most looked like they had been only used once, and one brand new one, which I kept. All my grenades were inert, there were no charges in them. As far as I can remember, they were only seperated with cardboard.
 

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