RGD 5 - Clarifying western myth

[@fjuraa]

damn, he even triggered a live tripwire just for our amusement

[@Legitpenguins99]

Don't worry, he's just s"icidal, not stupid. There was a brick "wall" between him and the angry egg.

[@fjuraa]

@@Legitpenguins99 still....

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

One the best channels of youtube. I've learned so much about weapons here. He goes through the entire packaging and process of how they work with live ammunition. I'd bet some of these videos are used as actual training aids sometimes. And he is careful. He's always behind cover when using explosives.

[@darko11221]

@@Legitpenguins99 To nie jest granat odłamkowy i na otwartej przestrzeni nie jest zbyt groźny.

[@Splarkszter]

Imagine it get's caught on your feet and it slingshots near you

[@tenarmurk]

Bro literally set up a live tripwire grenade and ran through it just to show how it works

[@Tr4wnet]

Gotta get dem views somehow. lmao

[@PferdeLasagne]

@@Tr4wnet Atleast he is a real Player lmao. Homie wasnt phased at all !

[@solobushcraft1]

Good to see you again Val stay safe out there

[@alexscarpa7573]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed that insanity.

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

LOVE Valgear! He knows we want to see all of these things. if he has a Patreon or something people should join it.

[@DustyGamma]

I will absolutely lodge a complaint if I die from a 0-second fuse, thank you for the info on where to lodge the complaint.

[@AMRAMRS]

Did you die yet, bro? Please, I gotta know!...

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

"When used in trenches, people really tend to shut up" 😂 🔥

[@dennisyoung4631]

Sounds like a good tool for house-cleaning..?

[@obsidianjane4413]

​@@dennisyoung4631 Only if you aren't inside it. The video is kind of misleading, making it look like just a "flashbang", but its a really loud big bomb. The blast and shockwave does weird things inside buildings. You can concuss yourself with it.

[@StalkersAlt]

@@obsidianjane4413 it doesn't mislead, he stated that there are fragments, its just not like other granades that have cuts in them for extra fragmentation. He also mentioned overpressure

[@obsidianjane4413]

@@StalkersAlt I didn't say he mislead. Only that you don't get a real appreciation for it thru a YT video.

[@StalkersAlt]

@@obsidianjane4413 You literally said that video is kind of misleading. Im gonna assume your autistic or something, so i understand that its hard to pick up some things.But i think the video very clearly states its a offensive granade, with lethal capabilities,as show by the footage where he tests the nade on some targets.hope that helps

[@daminox]

Testing your own tripwire is hardcore. You've got balls, Valgear!

[@MPiKMS72]

Peter Kokalis published a warning about the 0 second fuses in Soldier of Fortune back in the 1980s. He claimed they were specifically meant for booby traps. Later he published a retraction saying he was wrong and they never existed and the numbers did *not* indicate a delay in seconds but here we are, that rumor still is going around.

[@valgear5525]

Thank you very much for this information!

[@toadman506]

I remember that article.

[@smyers820gm]

@@valgear5525hey dude, where are you from originally? I’m curious because of your accent

[@robert9016]

@@smyers820gmHe sounds Ukrainian

[@thelongvirtuesignal8551]

lol same as russian female sniper nazi killers propaganda, completely debunked, still going strong !

[@ReapersFear]

"Ashely from HR will take care of you"...🤣🤣🤣

[@AndToTheRepublic4WhichItStands]

When did he say that lol I missed it

[@nathancomalander4417]

@@AndToTheRepublic4WhichItStands He said if ever you manage to die from 0 second fuze, call the london branch of so and so to complain.. Ashley from HR will take care for it.. lmao

[@FanaticoftheOmnissiah]

Val is alive and kicking, and I want it to stay that way.

[@Ostenjager]

I was in the US Army for 20 years as an Infantryman. We heard about the zero-delay fuzes. Part of me wondered how true that was, and how much of that was told to us to discourage US troops from “tactically acquiring” Russian grenades and using them ourselves.

[@EllAntares]

Myth could be party coming from WWII time,where Germans had replaceable, color-coded fuses, an immediate oe was among them. But that's intentional,deliberate act. Reinforced by failing fuses which would go off immediately. SUch "good" QA there was. Russia also had sapeur sets of fuses (and various doohikeys to come with them, in a single tin box) including 0-second one, but these were for anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, not for greanades, afaik. These aren't meant for foot soldiers.

[@Ekdrink]

If I had to guess it’s because of why even risk troops using claimed equipment that may be sabotaged when we have as many of our own as baseballs.

[@odrs]

is your name Osten?

[@ThànhHoàngNgọc-w8r]

@@Ekdrink only US with world top 1 logistic strength can afford to not using capture weapon/ammo like that , other army with much less logistic strength and suffer from constantly enemy attack can't

[@rzr2ffe325]

My friend survived one. No shrapnel, but the pressure wave fucked him up. Forgot how to walk down stairs. Needed months of rehab. Took longer to find words to speak. TBIs are no joke.

[@johnnyramone8051]

Your friend is unlucky because usually people don't even notice rgd-5 explosion nearby, it's the 2nd most useless grenade in history, the first one is RGN - that's some really shitty piece of shit

[@Ekdrink]

@thulomanchaythat’s not a stun lol

[@Ekdrink]

@thulomanchay no I mean making someone forget how to walk down stairs is more than stun

[@WithManyVoices]

​@@Ekdrink they get stunted

[@Rosskles]

Was he fighting in Ukraine?

[@davharzin2370]

thanks for the address....I'm sending my complaint today

[@profpep]

By Ouja board, rather than email?

[@afz902k]

A hooded guy threw this at me and shouted "catch this lemon!", he also called me effeminate and other expletives.

[@VNAlertNAV]

Seems like you encounter your local bandits

[@BigMakBattleBlog]

Love you Val. You should be required veiwing for all forighen volunteers.

[@yomamabelgium4123]

0 second fuzes were actually a thing during ww2 with the germans being intentionally left behind for enemy soldiers to pick up and blow themselves up with they were color coded blue for the regular fuse time yellow for a long fuse and red and or gray for 1-0second delay manifactured for booby traps Red - 1 second delay (for coloured smoke, but also booby-trap) Blue - 4.5 second (standard issue) Yellow - 7.5 seconds (used on the Hafthohlladung 3 - magnetic shaped charge) Grey - No delay (used for demolition work or as booby-trap)

[@valgear5525]

Ouch Ashley will be busy...

[@fridrekr7510]

@@valgear5525 Do you worry about the enemy sabotaging ammo like that? I've seen so many videos from trench attacks where they just casually pick up captured grenades and ammo to use during the raid.

[@nope1888]

​@@fridrekr7510very little to zero worries, it's common sense, if you just pushed dudes out of the position, chance that they will keep booby traped grenade, in pile of their own grenades dedicated to defending the position is almost zero, if enemy do plan withdraw, then it's completely different story

[@fridrekr7510]

@@nope1888 Fair enough, but Val also talked about capturing equipment from a SOBR depot during the 2022 offensive. So in that case I guess sabotage could become relevant.

[@Hasmasnafg]

немецкие колотушки имели тёрочный запал с длинным и довольно непредсказуемым периодом горения. Это тоже миф, скорее всего

[@hoilst265]

It's amazing how myths like the zero-second fuse have legs. Nearly forty years after the fall of the wall, and people are still regurgitating those things. I guess some source made a best-guess back in Cold War about the fuse, published it, and it's been referenced ever since.

[@bezimienny_andzej6425]

Well, Germany did have a special fuse for booby traps, so the idea made sense, people probably assumed it has to exist, because it made logical sense to exist.

[@Mortablunt]

Primary source knowledge was rare, primary source examples to verify were even rarer. Even with my own ability to get and understand primary sources in the original language, and personal experience with the subject material, I still get pushback from people holding onto the old lore.

[@treavorwhitlock5606]

Sounds like an example of counterintelligence propaganda. If the enemy has a useful tool, make them second guess it. The SOG groups in Vietnam spread the rumor that viet Kong rifles exploded, even leaving a couple exploding rounds scattered in with good ones where the Kong could find them

[@mikekovko7563]

It's all propaganda.. just like all these rednecks here in the states think ak74 and 47 are the worst weapons ever created and inaccurate ...

[@ramongossler1726]

"because the overpressure of the 110g really do the trick" 😂😂

[@Ekdrink]

“It really uh… shuts people up”

[@StevenRoberts-m8v]

Thank you sir for sharing this with us! Stay safe and take care! ✌️👍👍🤝🎯🫡

[@fr4x153]

Niceee, valgear is uploading again!

[@janicnevim3969]

This channel was a hidden gem for me. Great video!

[@nelson0110]

I heard the Germans played around with different fuse times for their egg grenades, but ultimately abandoned the idea, because people would mix up Booby trap grenades with the normal ones and blow themselves up.

[@TheLittleDeath1]

Red cap on the egg grenade means 0 sec fuse. Blue cap is the normal fuse. But on the eastern front they left blue ones with manipulated fuses.

[@nelson0110]

@@TheLittleDeath1 I think the red was 1 sec, and the 0 was grey and so was the grenade, that was the confusion.

[@yomamabelgium4123]

@@nelson0110 that is correct and the yellow fuze was the longest Red - 1 second delay (for coloured smoke, but also booby-trap) Blue - 4.5 second (standard issue) Yellow - 7.5 seconds (used on the Hafthohlladung 3 - magnetic shaped charge) Grey - No delay (used for demolition work or as booby-trap)

[@JanFWeh]

They didn't play around with the idea of different fuses. They used those extensively. The red and grey fuses were to be used as a fixed booby-trap, then an instantaneous or one-second fuse would be fitted. Sometimes, this style of grenade was discarded in plain view for the enemy to use when abandoning a position. If an enemy soldier used such a captured grenade it would almost always result in his death. Later in Italy they were used as booby traps to slow down Allied advances on the Italian peninsula, in ambushes or in street fighting and as traps for the Italian Partisans when they raided German supplies and weapon caches. Another type of trap was to wire a short-fuse grenade to a door-frame in an abandoned building with the pull-cord attached to the door. When the door was breached by opposing troops, the grenade would detonate right next to the enemy.

[@nelson0110]

@@yomamabelgium4123 That’s cool I didn’t know about the magnetic charge feature.

[@briangomoll5965]

This guy is insane! I would not want to meet a platoon of these guys. Really wish the war would end. Hope you stay safe.

[@MaximGhost]

"If ever you manage to die from zero-second fuse, you can write a complaint."

[@IllOmen-gl3ji]

Brilliant video my Ukrainian brother, my eternal thanks and respect to you and your brethren in arms. Thanks for setting the record straight regarding grenades!

[@sqeeye3102]

I don't know what we did to deserve a legit series of gear reviews by a real soldier in the middle of his real war, but thank you. I never thought I would see half this stuff on KZbin, let alone tested.

[@oteliogarcia1562]

"nice, big explosion. like it" nice, straightforward commentary. and sense of humor.

[@cannack]

one important clarification on cost too, these are *very, very, very cheap* to produce. $5-10 USD or less for a mass produced RGD-5 M-67 while sporting more 70g of a more violent explosive and therefore slightly more lethality is around $50 USD to produce

[@FH-rp5or]

they are indeed cheap. however i dont think the effect of the m67 is comparable to the rgd5. as they have different purposes. the m67 is a defensive grenade while the rgd5 is offensive and is intended to not have a large radius.

[@miragebg]

Not much to research though, we produce it in the village zone and with wages around $1000+something, noone want to mess with quality there - fine, educated and trained people with families - errors are nightmare in factories...wtf zero delay detonators, it's more for eastern world tactics :)

[@РоманКотанский]

@@FH-rp5or m67 is reported to have at most 20m guaranteed injury radius(which is lower than RGD-5, an OFFENSIVE grenade), which is clown numbers for a defensive grenade, not even talking about the lack of fragmentation sleeve.

[@internetcensure5849]

" $50 USD to produce"? The actual BOM and manufacturing would be cheaper. It's inflated cost to sell at inflated price. Typical military-industrial rip off!

[@nikolakaravida9670]

​@@РоманКотанскийThe M67 is literally the most powerful hand grenade in existence. It has 4 times the explosive filler of any other nade. Fragments can fly out to 200m and it's way more useful for fucking up cover or disabling vehicles by throwing one inside. It's also quite ergonomic and can be thrown pretty far for a "defensive" grenade (the whole division is arbitrary imo).

[@fritzhaber3994]

Val :) Both UZRGM (after 1954) and UZRGM-2 were produced with a "curved" (for RGD-5) and a "straight, folded" spoon (for F1). The difference between UZRGM and UZRGM-2 is in the pyrotechnical delay composition and the technology of attaching the blasting cap to the rest of the fuze (crimped in UZRGM, varnish-glued in UZRGM-2, id I am not mistaken). Love you, take care.

[@valgear5525]

Dam, as ussualy you are correct! I didn't double check, and just freestyled from memory 😐😂

[@fritzhaber3994]

@@valgear5525 Nothing serious, and congrats ;)

[@CalebClingon-oj9es]

I love all the education you give for us just in case we get into trouble and need to know how to assemble all your reviewed items

[@GtSaalfeld]

I’m amazed KZbin allows this but god bless that you are doing what the average American would do if I had access to any of this. Stay safe and kick some ass my friend.

[@afghyddvhuyrsxcn3296]

1:33 sets up and triggers a live tripwire trap by walking through it himself, presumably to show us how it works 2:22 "also is cqb and in trench its reakky impresive like people tend to really Shut Up when you threw the rgd over there" 2:54 throws grenade 3:42 show the aftermath and spread of shrapnal at different ranges of grenade 5:06 show us the grenades in crate and assembely toutourial 6:32 talks about rgn-86 and its fuse dvm-78 7:23 fuse segment

[@pripjatyfighter3786]

This guy have a balls from steel, activating a live trip wire grenade with himself... Thanks for the useful information again, and Stay Safe!

[@Ivan-lk4qg]

Another amazing video

[@orion3253]

The Valgear multimedia empire continues to dominate.

[@Zane-It]

Truly insane test demo.

[@thescaleyscoop5610]

I think using soda bottles would have been a great way to demonstrate overpressure with the RGD 5, still a good video

[@michaelcombs24]

LOL! The time on the grenade of 0, and you said who to talk to is like at Jump school, If your parachute doesn't OPEN, bring it back and we'll give you a new one

[@muellermartin9661]

Great video, stay safe, Val!

[@Stealth86651]

Lol, I literally was just thinking "Wonder if Valgear uploaded a new video yet?". Kinda weird how often that happens now. Thanks for actually showing a tripwire being used with a live grenade, always wondered how much resistance/force was needed and how noticeable it would be. Guess aside from the click of the fuse doesn't seem that noticeable, especially carrying 100lbs+ of equipment while stumbling over terrain.

[@parallel-knight]

Great video as always my man!!!

[@swissson1091]

Muchas gracias amigo, saludos y apoyo desde México

[@D4MN4T10N]

Viewing from Canada , love your content , haven't seen videos about soviet equipment before , keep up the content stay safe!

[@RosemarieStars]

Found you through Joe Mac. Thanks for the information.

[@orion3253]

Who is Joe Mac?

[@braveworld2707]

@@orion3253 Joe MacDonald of *BigMacs Battle Blogs.* He now flies drones, helps make the things that go 💥that makes additional sunflower food for the Ukrainian soil. Слава нації. 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 Смерть усім ворогам! 🇷🇺

[@Native_love]

9:45 LOLOLOL! I'm sending you a few dollars just for that comment! Love you! ❤😂

[@GeneralThargor]

HAHAHAHA, poor Ashley, dealing with all those complaints.

[@EggwardEgghands]

Wrapped in baking paper just like grandmom's winter apples. Cute!

[@858tactical]

When you spoke about the Bulgarian version,it was clearly visible,that explosive filling was RDX .., which is much faster explosive than TNT.. Such grenade must be really badass!!! I threw F1 and URG86 grenades through my army training and even those were pretty "bad guys"! Nice video though!! 👍

[@moriopl6176]

Your chanel is soo unique. You keep suprisingt me with your content. Keep up the work and stay safe.

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

I could believe the $5 prodictuon price, especially at scale. Perhaps the fuses cost a bit more to produce, but again, if theyre making millions of them, the price goes down.

[@louisriverin2295]

Merci et soyez prudent!

[@bigstudio2.044]

Thank you for clearing this up.

[@ecleveland1]

This guy is the MAN! He’s got a whole case of real hand grenades and even sets one up on a trip wire just for the video!

[@samuelstacey2309]

Wow great video dude! How have I never seen your channel before now!? Subscribed. Oh and please take care out there mate! ❤ from Australia, if you ever come down to this part of the world you can look forward to us all buying you some beers!

[@staschistyakov5677]

Very sustainable, and environmentally conscious packaging.

[@308-blackout]

This is what i call dedication, commitment , and sheer fucking will😮

[@theTeknoViking]

I don't really have anything to say, just commenting to boost your channel. Much Love from Stockholm, Sweden.

[@dacomputerlives8264]

this man is actually insanely dedicated to this making a tripwire hooked up to an actual grenade is insane thank you and stay safe

[@realQuiGon]

And then activating the live tripwire by running through it for demonstration 😆

[@anadin0612]

Thank you good sir. Stay safe.

[@ijustholdsquare9251]

Really enjoyed this you got a subscriber.

[@ServantOfGod38]

Yt is wild now. Thank you, great video!

[@zapa1pnt]

"If you should die from 0 second fuse, you can always write......" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 😁✌🖖

[@JohnWaldron-cm7ce]

Another great video! Spaseeba, Tovarische! Vanya in Texas

[@nikolakaravida9670]

Valgear you're a legend. Stay safe.

[@FlècheFletcher]

Nice review I’ll keep it in mind when I order them on Amazon

[@Vrooto]

Ran through a live tripwire just to prove a point, my man you have balls of tungsten you've gotten a sub and a like.

[@Syfysoldier]

The most intense review of anything I’ve ever seen.

[@ľőŵďǒpė86]

VAL! miss you, boo 😊

[@Timmysteve]

Very interesting and informative video. Thank you for sharing your insight

[@joecampbell6486]

Thanks for the video, very informative

[@tylerleavitt2715]

What an amazing channel!! I won’t ask how you are able to access such interesting “toys”

[@saltMagic]

He's deployed in Ukraine.

[@holgere.]

During my army days I trained with these in the late 80ies too. I encountered the grenades and the detonators again in the Balkans. The problem with the ones I encountered here (Yugoslav version I guess) is that the fuse is notoriously unreliable. There are actually 0 sec delay fuses as well as fuses that don't go off at all! I experienced both! I threw a separate fuse/detonator, just to demonstrate how it works and it exploded right next to my hand. (If attached to the grenade it would have killed.) I also found an unexploded one and I have plenty of reports of similar occurances.

[@jamallabarge2665]

Thank you for the comments on fuses. I had read a story about zero second fuses in the 1980s. To me a zero delay fuse is a specialist item meant for combat engineers. Soldiers need and deserve total consistency in action - this helps them to move fast and effectively to their mission. Standard delay fuses, enough to get that thing away from them. I was cautioned by US veterans of the Vietnam conflict never to cook off a grenade (trigger the spoon then wait). The fuses are too inconsistent to trust with such a process. The RGD-5 seems to blend a bit of both offensive and defensive grenades. Heavy overpressure like an offensive grenade, but fragments to induce incapacitation.

[@patrickbateman312]

What the fuck are you rambling about. It's not a fuse of both, it's an offensive grenade period. RGD5 is paltry compared to blast power of M67

[@dj1NM3]

I was thinking it looked suspiciously like an M39 Eierhandgranate...

[@exploringtheplanetsn]

IMO the most spicy firearms content on KZbin

[@headhunter335]

Very informative and enjoyable, nice video 👌🏻

[@luigitosti7599]

Nice sense of humour at the end of the video, lol. Great content.

[@isopahamehu7337]

Love the stuff man, stay safe!

[@Quxrk]

Dang bro that tripwire thing was wild. Don’t kill yourself just for a video. Solid content though!

[@CelataForCongress]

Ashley from HR was very nice she needs a raise

[@rafaelvalladao1678]

not really related but i love your helmet setup, looks really sleek and doesnt look like it will slow you down.

[@bacory_]

I like your accent, interesting video!❤

[@jonathansitell857]

every day you upload is a good day!

[@kurtasiak]

super ,dobrze wytlumaczone

[@urgaynknowit]

Informative, yes, kinda crazy, also yes

[@Udo-z8s]

Lass es krachen Greetings from Brandenburg 🇩🇪👍

[@daveruff47]

Former Army EOD. Great stuff. What a hoot.

[@EXO9X8]

The Bulgarian rgd 5 looks adorable

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Looks very similiar in construction to the Swedish Shgr56 though that has a more western style hammer and spoon fuse design and is filled with ~300g compacted hexotol explosive.

[@olivere5497]

I really wish games like Dayz included the detail of an unscrewable fuse. It would make finding grenades a real task. Imagine finding a box of grenades, wrapped in grease paper but first you need to assemble the fuses?😂

[@NuggetsAndLaundry]

Incredible review!

[@realBattIe]

love ur vids

[@BIG-DIPPER-56]

Very Interesting - Thanks!

[@Ohyeaaaa420]

love this content. stay safe bro

[@Hnkka]

I had PE teacher in primary school who was soviet army in estonia when he was serving age, it was obvious that he did because how hard he went on everyone and treated us(kids) like bad behaving rookies/privates, it was hell for me to be in his classes

[@Bee_Tea_Sea]

The zero second fuse part gave me a good laugh

[@lefunnyN1]

have you ever seen polish rgo88 grenades used in combat?

[@Nemisis_One]

Very good & Informative Video my Brother, I look forward to your next Video.

[@jimmiller5600]

What? In Hollywood there would have been a mushroom cloud !

[@DROP_BEARZ]

I hit a booby trap once. Felt a twang on my shin and knew immediately what happened. I ran and hit the deck and after nothing, looked behind me to see the pin still engaged in a big old improvised pipe grenade dragged behind me on the tripwire wrapped around my leg.

[@christopherwilliams3837]

outside of one or two scenarios, zero delay fuses seem like a terrible idea for a hand grenade

[@83cable]

Facinating stuff, thanks for these vids there amazing! (That trip wire thing, oh man stay safe mate!)