Ruchnaya granata obraztsa 1914 goda, “Hand Grenade Pattern of year 1914”. It is a concussion HE grenade, not a fragmentation grenade, but a fragmentation version exists.
Russia was unique amongst its other fellow great powers due to one important detail, it was the only nation to have a standard issue infantry grenade standardised before the beginning of the war, legacy of the Russo-Japanese War. The RG-1914 being the more developed variant of the complicated RG-1912. Even in this situation the Russian Army wasn’t trained for proper mass-use of the Grenade, and the officers of the army were not instructed to do so until grenades became an obvious required equipment for all soldiers in modern warfare. Aleksei Evert coming to this conclusion will aim at a large scale deployment of grenades.
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