Notes: The Plamya (Flame) was first seen in use in Afghanistan in about 1977, though it had been in Russian and Warsaw pact service since about 1975. It is generally issued at the company level in infantry and combat engineer units, and is meant to provide a massive volume of high-explosive fires during assaults. AGS-17 variants have also been found mounted in vehicle turrets as well as on pintle mounts, and in chin turrets and as door guns on helicopters (helicopter-mounted Plamyas are normally known as AG-17A’s instead of the AGS-17). Other mounts include a mounting with a coaxial NSV machinegun on a high-angle mount for use in mountainous areas, and a remote control AGS-17 known as the 6S5 Mius that allows one gunner to control up to 4 AGS-17s at once, aimed by a laser rangefinder. The standard AGS-17 is normally fitted with a 2.7x sight. The AGS-17 has proliferated throughout former Russian client states, and has also been copied by China.

Notes: This automatic grenade launcher started replacing the AGS-17 in Russian service in 1994. It has 40% fewer components than the AGS-17, and is thus lighter. It uses a special tripod developed for this weapon, and an ammunition belt which is one round more than the AGS-17.

Notes: This Russian weapon is a novel development in grenade launchers, in that it is a silenced weapon. Noise from this weapon is about as loud as a .22 Long Rifle pistol. The BS-1 uses a special 7.62 blank cartridge that drives a piston with great force, which is what actually propels the grenade. The BS-1 is almost always seen mounted on a special suppressed version of the AK-74 assault rifle; this weapon has noise characteristics similar to the grenade launcher. The launch cartridges are fed by bolt action from a 20-round magazine contained in the grenade launcher grip; the grenades are loaded into the muzzle, as is usual for Russian single-shot grenade launchers. The BS-1 is issued only to certain special operations troops and was never in great supply.

Notes: This weapon was designed to protect ships and ports from combat swimmers and frogmen. It is a twin over-and-under barrel grenade launcher with a selection of rounds available. Chief among these is the concussion round, designed to have double the concussion value underwater. An antipersonnel round was also developed to allow use against swimmers that come up on land.

Notes: This is a Russian slide-action multishot grenade launcher based on the design of the RM-93 shotgun. It fires a new grenade round (43mmB), with several round types. The slide action is "backwards" compared to Western designs, being slid forwards to eject the spent round and back to cock the weapon. This weapon is used only by KGB, Spetsnaz, and Alpha teams.

Twilight 2000 Notes: This weapon does not exist.

Merc 2000 Notes: This is a popular terrorist weapon.

GP-25

Notes: A Russian single-shot grenade launcher, also referred to as the BG-15 or AK-GL. The GP-25 is normally fitted under the barrel of the AK-74, AKM, or AK-47, but can also be fitted to the Chinese Type 68 and 81, the VZ-58V, Valmet assault rifles (except the M-71 and M-82), and Yugoslavian AK-derivatives. The GP-25 has a rudimentary pistol grip and can be fired separately from a rifle, but the grip is awkward and recoil is severe. The GP-25 was first used in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s.

Notes: This is a "shorty" version of the GP-25, for use on submachineguns and carbines. Its barrel is a little over half that of the GP-25, with some decrease in range and increase in muzzle blast. It was developed specifically the A-91 and 9A-91 submachineguns, which cannot mount the GP-25, though it may be mounted on other Eastern Bloc submachineguns and even assault rifles.

Notes: This weapon was developed in response to a Russian Army need for a multishot grenade launcher for use in Chechnya. It is basically a GP-25 grenade launcher with a rotating cylinder mechanism behind the barrel. The barrels in the rotating cylinder are rifled, while the single central barrel is not. The weapon is wound when reloading like a clock. The RG-6 has a defect, in that the weapon does not always fire on a given cylinder; any grenade is 2% likely not to fire, over and above the normal chance for misfire during catastrophic failure. Grenades that do not fire are not defective; they may be reloaded and may then fire at normal probability, again with a 2% chance of misfire. This is a defect of the weapon and not the rounds. This weapon was not issued to line units, but instead only to Spetsnaz and Alpha teams.

Twilight 2000 Notes: This weapon does not exist.