WW2 Russian RGD-33 Hand Grenade

WW2 Russian RGD-33 Hand Grenade with frag sleeve.

A good inert example with most of its mustard green painted finish. Complete with removable frag sleeve. Overall corrosion as expected with age.


The Soviet RGD-33 "Hand Grenade, Dyakonov design, an anti-personnel fragmentation stick grenade developed in 1933.

The grenade was composed of three separate pieces that were stored in different crates until use: the warhead and sleeve, spring-loaded handle, and fuze tube. They were assembled and issued only before combat. The warhead and handle were screwed together and carried in a grenade pouch and the fuzes were wrapped in waxed paper and carried separately in the pouch's internal pocket. There was a hole in the outer handle to the right of the thumb catch that lined up with bars of paint on the inner handle, making a colored dot - a white dot meant safe and a red dot meant the handle assembly was cocked. It would not be armed unless the fuze tube had been inserted, which would be done only before throwing.


INERT

Code: 423