№121720Maket RG-14

Russian Empire. Deaktivated! The RG-14 (hand grenade of the Rdultovsky model of 1914) is a hand fragmentation grenade created just before the First World War by artillery captain V. I. Rdultovsky.

In March 1916, the Troitsk Ammunition Factory began production of hand grenades mod. 1914. The production of the 1914 model hand grenade was discontinued after the 1914/30 model hand grenade was adopted by the Red Army in 1930.

The grenade consisted of a tin case, an explosive charge, a fragmentation array, a knee mechanism and a fuse.

The body of the grenade had a cylindrical shape with a neck. The case length was 104.5 mm, the handle length was 112 mm, and the handle diameter was 30-35 mm. Two 1 mm thick gratings with cross-shaped slots were installed between the charge and the shell, which produced about 230-250 small fragments of almost square shape when the grenade exploded. The range of the fragments was up to 15-20 meters.

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