Granat RGO-88

The RGO-88 grenade is a Polish anti-personal fragmentation grenade, designed in the late 1980s.

In the second half of the 1980s, work began in Poland on a new defensive grenade – a successor to the F-1 grenade. The new grenade was to be much more effective for a similar weight. This goal was achieved by equipping it with a plastic body (similar to the Soviet RGD-5). Steel balls were embedded inside the body, constituting striking elements. Compared to the F-1 grenade, it was possible to achieve three times greater effectiveness in the striking area with a smaller weight.

A major advantage associated with the use of prefabricated striking elements is the assurance of complete safety for the thrower (the striking range is smaller than the throw range).

The RGO-88 grenades is manufactured by Zakłady Metalowe Dezamet in Nowa Dęba.^[1]

The RGO-88 grenade is a defensive grenade. The main element is a plastic body with embedded steel balls. Inside the body is an explosive, hexogen. The body is covered from the outside with a thin steel sheet casing. In the upper part of the body is the UZGR or UZRGM fuse socket.^[2]

The grenades are packed in wooden boxes, 20 pieces in a box measuring 517 × 305 × 150 and weighing 16 kg, and the fuses for them, 10 pieces in metal boxes, hermetically sealed.^[3]

• Poland – introduced into service in the Polish Armed Forces in the 1990s.

• RGZ-89