RGS-50M

September 11, 2008

EG-50M blow-chock effect, and later on completed with the rounds featuring grenades GO-50 of splinter effect, GK-50 hollow or shaped charge effect, GV-50 rounds intended to break out locks and the GD-50, smoke-type grenades. So, this special grenade launcher intended for police and counterterrorists’s opera¬tions acquired new combat qualities.
This grenade launcher is developed on a single-load short shotgun configuration with a hinged barrel and an upper rotating locking lever. Its firing mechanism is of a hammer type, with a non-automatic thumb safety (located to the left over the trigger) which holds the sear. The hammer is being cocked when the barrel is hinged to break open and after a shot it assumes a released position (so that the striker doesn’t hamper unlocking). The fired cartridge case is extracted by an extractor.
The pistol grip and removable fore grip are intended for control of the weapon. The detachable tube-shaped stock is located along the line of axis of the barrel bore and compatible with a spring-actuated recoil break and outfitted with the rubber butt-stock which permitted to launch compara¬tively heavy (0.39-0.42 kg) grenades with the muzzle velocity 90 m/sec.

The sight is tumbling of a post type rated for 50, 100 and 150 meters range. The cross-section of hits dispersion when fired against a vertical target at a range of 100 m is equal to 150 cm. A splinter grenade hits the manpower in the radius of 7 meters in cross section direction and in a cone area of some 20 meters long in longitudinal direc¬tion. A hollow-charge grenade penetrates an aluminium plate of 20 mm thick.
The updated RGS-50 features a spring-actuated recoil break, improved firing mechanism, and folded retain handle.

This complex was developed late in the 1980s on the basis of the already existing 50mm non lethal rounds, includ¬ing the single-load smooth bore RGS-50 grenade launcher («50mm portable spe¬cial grenade launcher-) and rounds with the GS-50M grenades of irritating effect, GSZ-50 flash-sonic effect, EG-50 and
Specifications RGS-50
Caliber …………………………50mm
Round ……………W/GS-50M, GSZ-50, EG-50,
GO-50, GK-50. GV-50, GD-50
Weapon weigh! w/o a round…………….6.3 kg
Weapon length ………………….. 890 mm
Muzzle velocity ………………….92 m/sec
Sighting range…………………….150 m