The RGD-3 hand smoke grenade is designed to mask the actions of individual soldiers and subdivisions, to blind the enemy's means of fire in the visible and infrared range, and to simulate fires. The grenade can be fired from 5.56 mm kbs and 7.62 mm kbkg rifles as a cap grenade
Mass of the grenade 600 ± 50 g
Ignition time less than 15 s
Smoking time not less than 40 s
Method of use manual or fired
Launch distance up to 150 m
Masking properties in the range of visible and infrared radiation up to 12 µm
Smokescreen dimensions
for the visible range (L x W) 40 x 3 m
for infrared range (L x W) 10 x 1.5 m