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So, I have been shopping and I think these are Russian - I am guessing Snaperskya knows right down to the model number and factory they were manufactured in

The green ones are full weight training ones - the black ones are lightweight plastic.

In Poland we call them "defence grenade type F-1",old design from 2nd WW,"action" radius up to 200m with up to 400 shrapnels,propellant is TNT,very handy in most WTSHTF situations...

i want one of those where are they from ?

Dellboy wrote:i want one of those where are they from ?

I can get more......

You have pm

By the way - you should see the look on my mates face when he walked through the door to see me holding one, pulling the pin and saying "ooops"

Cad plated levers are usually Polish, the green one has got the correct firing pin housing, the others appear to be replicas.If the levers have 'UZRGM' on them in English they are probably Czech made.If they are Russian levers the 'UZRGM' will be in Cyrillic script and early Russia ones have a numbered code (563 for example) with a Cyrillic letter underneath.If the green one has no hole in the base it is a real grenade body rather than a training on, Combloc training grenade bodies are nearly always black with either a red or white stripe round the and a hole in the base as a practice fuse with a special 'detonator' that goes off with a loud bang is used to simulate the grenade going off hence the hole, these grenades are also reusable.

I have a few of these, all Russian, and a rare-ish RDG-5 offensive grenade, which are particularly nasty as they fragment into almost tin-foil like shards that cut you to ribbons and can actually travel around the human circulatory system shredding as they go.......


Edit.....hastily taken pics

L to R....Early F-1, two 1980s F-1s and a RGD-5

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Top- Polish UZRGM fuze with practice detonator, Russian UZRGM with standard detonator and RDG-5
Bottom- Polish cadnium plated practice lever, Czech UZRGM lever and Bakelite transportation plug (grenades and detonators packed seperately)

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polemass wrote:... radius up to 200m with up to 400 shrapnels, ...

Can anybody throw one 200m?

Mark

"action" radius=fragmentation distance...

bigfathairybiker wrote:

polemass wrote:... radius up to 200m with up to 400 shrapnels, ...

Can anybody throw one 200m?

Mark

F-1 range is a far as you can throw it, blast radius in the real world is 15m for optimal effect and 30m peripheral damage.......a fragment could travel 200m in the same way a 54r bullet could go 3.5km.The F-1 is classified by the Russians as a 'defensive' grenade and are used from behind the safety of cover such as walls and revetments etc

Muzzle mounted grenade launchers were developed by the Russians for the F-1 but they went out of favour with the introduction of the GP-25 and GP-30 under-barrel grenade launchers that used the VOG-25 grenades.

Looks like we need to start a grenade club...my F1's