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The AGS-17 Plamya[7] (Russian: Пламя; Flame) is a Soviet-designed automatic grenade launcher in service worldwide.
Description
The AGS-17 is a heavy infantry support weapon designed to operate from a tripod or mounted on an installation or vehicle. The AGS-17 fires 30 mm grenades in either direct or indirect fire to provide suppressive and lethal fire support against soft-skinned or fortified targets.
The weapon uses a blowback mechanism to sustain operation. Rounds are fired through a removable (to reduce barrel stress) rifled barrel.
The standard metal ammunition drum contains 29 linked rounds.[8][9]
The tripod is equipped with fine levelling gear for indirect fire trajectories.
Development
Development of the AGS-17 (Avtomaticheskiy Granatomyot Stankovyi—Automatic Grenade launcher, Mounted) started in the USSR in 1965 by the OKB-16 design bureau (now known as the KB Tochmash), under the leadership of Alexander F. Kornyakov.[10]
This lightweight weapon was to provide infantry with close to medium range fire support against enemy personnel and unarmored targets, like trucks, half-tracks, jeeps and sandbag-protected machine-gun nests. The first prototypes of the new weapon entered trials in 1969, with mass production commencing in 1971.[10] The AGS-17 was widely operated and well-liked by Soviet troops in Afghanistan as a ground support weapon or as a vehicle weapon on improvised mounts installed on armoured personnel carriers and trucks.[1]
A special airborne version of the AGS-17, the AG-17A, was developed for installation on helicopters, including the Mi-24 Hind in gun pods and the Mil Mi-8 on door mounts. This weapon had a thick aluminium jacket on the barrel and used a special mount and an electric remotely controlled trigger.[10][11]
It is still in use with the Russian army as a direct fire support weapon for infantry troops; it is also installed in several vehicle mounts and turrets along with machine guns, guided rocket launchers and sighting equipment. It is being replaced by the AGS-30 launcher, which fires the same ammunition, but weighs only 16 kg unloaded on the tripod and has an upgraded blowback action.
Variants
- AG-17A - remotely controlled aircraft-mounted version with an electric trigger mechanism.
- AGS-17D - remotely controlled vehicle-mounted version with an electric trigger mechanism.
RGSh-30
Ukrainian company Precision Systems developed a miniaturized handheld version of AGS-17 called RGSh-30[12] "in order to create a grenade launcher that could respond to the needs of Ukrainian units and special forces operating in the Donbas". RGSh-30 is designed to disable armored vehicles.[13][14][15] that can be carried like an assault rifle. RGSh-30 uses magazines with five 30mm VOG-17 grenades.
Precision Systems plans to develop versions using 20mm, 25mm, and 40mm grenades.
Ammunition
The AGS-17 fires 30×29 mm belted cartridges with a steel cartridge case.[16] Two types of ammunition are commonly fired from the AGS-17. The VOG-17M is the version of the original 30 mm grenade ammunition, which is currently available and has a basic high explosive fragmentation warhead. The VOG-30 is similar, but contains a better explosive filling and an enhanced fragmentation design that greatly increases the effective blast radius. New improved VOG-30D grenade was taken into service in 2013 for use with AGS-17 and AGS-30 grenade launchers.[17][18]
The Bulgarian weapons manufacturer Arcus produces AR-ROG hand grenades based on VOG-17 cartridges and UZRGM (Russian: УЗРГМ), which is also a Soviet design of fuse.[19] Similiar improvised grenades are known as "khattabkas".[20]
- VOG-17M (HE)
- IO-30 (HE)
- IO-30TP (Practice)
- VOG-30 (HE)
- VOG-30D (HE)
- VUS-30 (Smoke)
Users
Current
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Angola[21][2]- Template:Country data Armenia – importedLua error: not enough memory.
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Bulgaria – a modernized version, the AGL-30M, produced locally by Arsenal AD[24]- Template:Country data Chad[21]
China – produced by Norinco based on captured examples from Mujahideen groups.[25][21][26]- File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba[21]
Czech Republic
Ecuador: Used during Cenepa war 1995.[27]- Template:Country data Georgia[28]
Iran[21]
Iraq – produced under license[21][26]- Template:Country data Islamic State[29]
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Montenegro – designated the M93[21]- Template:Country data Mozambique[21]
- File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar[31]
- File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua[21]
- Template:Country data North Korea[32]
Russia[21]
Serbia – designated the M93[21] Produced under license.[33]- Template:Country data Sierra Leone[34]
- File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan: used by the Sudanese Armed Forces, some captured by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North[3]
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Slovakia[36]
Turkey[37]
Vietnam – Made under license in Z125 Factory[38][39] Known under the Vietnamese industrial name of SPL-17.[40]
Former
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Finland – designated 30 KrKK AGS-17, replaced by the HK GMG in 2005[42]
Latvia – used in the 1990s, now replaced by the HK GMG[21]
Soviet Union – passed on to successor states
See also
- AGS-30, first successor
- AGS‑40 Balkan, second successor using caseless high-explosive 40mm 7P39 grenades.
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- HK GMG, similar weapon
- Howa Type 96, similar weapon
- Milkor MGL, another South African 40 mm grenade launcher
- Mk 19 grenade launcher, similar weapon
- SB LAG 40
- Type 87 grenade launcher, used by the People's Liberation Army
- Vektor Y3 AGL
- XM174 grenade launcher, similar weapon
References
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