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Analyst: Armenian-Modified Grenade thrown During Bush Address
Civil Georgia, Georgia
May 21 2005
Georgian Military Analyst Irakli Aladashvili wrote in May 16-22 issue
of Kviris Palitra weekly, that a hand-grenade thrown during George
W. Bush public address in Tbilisi was not a Soviet-made RGD-5, as
reported earlier, but its slightly bigger, modified version which
was produced during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh war in Armenia.
The newspaper publishes the pictures of the grenade, with bear a
timestamp of May 10, 2005, 16:58. The grenade itself has a marking:
D-100-403. According to the analyst, if the producers of the modified
piece used the soviet system of marking, the last two digits indicate
the year of production - 2003. The grenade thrown in Tbilisi weighs 310
grams without a fuse, the original RGD-5 weighs the same with the fuse.
The grenade, according to the author, failed to detonate because of
a faulty fuse. Fuse of the grenade contains a trigger with a spring,
which, when released, hits a capsule-detonator, which in turn explodes
a grenade.
Aladashvili says, initial investigation shows that the trigger has
worked, as there is a characteristic denture left at the centre of
the detonating capsule by the trigger. The detonating capsule of the
type KD-8M has a copper casing and contains quicksilver as a detonating
agent. This very capsule has failed to detonate, as author speculates,
either because it was faulty, or because the spring of the trigger
proved too light.
Civil Georgia, Georgia
May 21 2005
Georgian Military Analyst Irakli Aladashvili wrote in May 16-22 issue
of Kviris Palitra weekly, that a hand-grenade thrown during George
W. Bush public address in Tbilisi was not a Soviet-made RGD-5, as
reported earlier, but its slightly bigger, modified version which
was produced during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh war in Armenia.
The newspaper publishes the pictures of the grenade, with bear a
timestamp of May 10, 2005, 16:58. The grenade itself has a marking:
D-100-403. According to the analyst, if the producers of the modified
piece used the soviet system of marking, the last two digits indicate
the year of production - 2003. The grenade thrown in Tbilisi weighs 310
grams without a fuse, the original RGD-5 weighs the same with the fuse.
The grenade, according to the author, failed to detonate because of
a faulty fuse. Fuse of the grenade contains a trigger with a spring,
which, when released, hits a capsule-detonator, which in turn explodes
a grenade.
Aladashvili says, initial investigation shows that the trigger has
worked, as there is a characteristic denture left at the centre of
the detonating capsule by the trigger. The detonating capsule of the
type KD-8M has a copper casing and contains quicksilver as a detonating
agent. This very capsule has failed to detonate, as author speculates,
either because it was faulty, or because the spring of the trigger
proved too light.