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**The Reaper** · 09-04-2004, 21:14

Ruchnaya Granata Degtyareva

("Hand Grenade of the Degtyarev design")

Model 1933 used during WWII and after, thru Vietnam.

Sheet metal construction, with a removable outer fragmentation sleeve. Time delay fuze with a cocked striker, activated when thrown, utilizing a unique mechanical system.

A most complex grenade design. The RGD-33 was the next generation replacement to the W.W.I. Model 1914/30 stick grenade, which also had a released igniter fuze mechanism.

Rgd-33 (Ruchnaya Granata Degtyareva - Hand grenade Degtyarev) is an anti-personnel grenade with fragmentation. It was developed by Diakonov in 1933, it is largely inspired by V.I.Rdutlovskiy model 1914. It was then improved by engineer Degtyarev. To make it function, it was necessary to push a safety towards the line and to insert a jacket there to explode it (after a course times). This grenade was especially used in its defensive version (represented below) because it could project fragments with more than 20 meters. It was a rather good grenade but it was not without defects. The many operations to prepare it required too much time of the soldiers on the ground and its many parts were expensive (in addition to making long to produce). It was abandoned in favour of Rg-42 .

I would guess you are referring to Degtyarev, and that he was also responsible for the majority of Soviet weapons designs in the inter-war period, to include the RPD MG.

TR

09-04-2004, 21:14	#7
The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,829	Ruchnaya Granata Degtyareva ("Hand Grenade of the Degtyarev design") Model 1933 used during WWII and after, thru Vietnam. Sheet metal construction, with a removable outer fragmentation sleeve. Time delay fuze with a cocked striker, activated when thrown, utilizing a unique mechanical system. A most complex grenade design. The RGD-33 was the next generation replacement to the W.W.I. Model 1914/30 stick grenade, which also had a released igniter fuze mechanism. Rgd-33 (Ruchnaya Granata Degtyareva - Hand grenade Degtyarev) is an anti-personnel grenade with fragmentation. It was developed by Diakonov in 1933, it is largely inspired by V.I.Rdutlovskiy model 1914. It was then improved by engineer Degtyarev. To make it function, it was necessary to push a safety towards the line and to insert a jacket there to explode it (after a course times). This grenade was especially used in its defensive version (represented below) because it could project fragments with more than 20 meters. It was a rather good grenade but it was not without defects. The many operations to prepare it required too much time of the soldiers on the ground and its many parts were expensive (in addition to making long to produce). It was abandoned in favour of Rg-42 . I would guess you are referring to Degtyarev, and that he was also responsible for the majority of Soviet weapons designs in the inter-war period, to include the RPD MG. TR __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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