page_title: RGD-5
section_title: Rifle grenade
hierarchical_section_title: RGD-5 / Variants / Rifle grenade
caption_attribution_description: Figure 54 of the US Army Operator's Manual for the AK-47 Assault Rifle.[1]. The AK-47 can mount a (rarely used) cup-type grenade-launcher that fires standard Soviet RGD-5 hand-grenades. The soup-can shaped launcher is screwed onto to AK-47’s muzzle. To fire… First, insert a standard RGD-5 hand-grenade into the launcher and then remove the safety pin… Second, insert a special blank cartridge into the rifles chamber… Third, place the butt-stock of the rifle on the ground and fire from this position. The maximum effective range is approximately 150 meters.
context_page_description: The RGD-5, is a post–World War II Soviet anti-personnel fragmentation grenade, designed in the early 1950s. The RGD-5 was accepted to service in 1954. It is still in service with many of Russia's former client states and has been supplied to Iraq as well as other Arab nations.
context_section_description: The AK-47 can mount a (rarely used) cup-type grenade-launcher that fires standard Soviet RGD-5 hand-grenades. The soup-can shaped launcher is screwed onto the AK-47’s muzzle.  It is prepared for firing by inserting a standard RGD-5 hand-grenade into the launcher, removing the safety pin, and inserting a special blank cartridge into the rifle's chamber.  With the butt-stock of the rifle on the ground it can be fired.
  The maximum effective range is approximately 150 metres (492 ft).
caption: AK-47 with a Kalashnikov grenade launcher mounted to its muzzle
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