Armenian Grenade?

[Armat]

This article is basically racist Georgian propaganda. It greatly upset me. Georgians looking any excuse to slander Armenians and deflect their own home grown fanatics. It is a fact that even during soviet times Armenians were and still being discriminated.

 

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-Artsax 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.

 

Above is from Groong

[Armen]

This article is basically racist Georgian propaganda. It greatly upset me. Georgians looking any excuse to slander Armenians and deflect their own home grown fanatics. It is a fact that even during soviet times Armenians were and still being discriminated.

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Armat, I would also say that we're equally responsible for that. Many Armenians still hold it that Shota Rustaveli was Armenian and Mesrop Mashtots invented the Gerogian alphabet. I don't think their position is right but we did everything we could to fuel their fanatism starting from Soviet times.

Edited May 22, 2005 by Armen

[Dave]

Maybe the person who threw the grenade was an Azeri.

 

We weren't the only ones in the Karabagh war, ya know!

[Anoushik]

... and Mesrop Mashtots invented the Gerogian alphabet.

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That's what I have been told. It's not true?

[Armen]

That's what I have been told. It's not true?

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De himi ari u pataskhani ... I don't know Anoushik Let me suggest this, when you talk to them, don't talk about it

 

Seriously, I personally don't care whether it was created by him or not. They say it was not, let them have it. It is sufficient that we have our own.

Edited May 23, 2005 by Armen

[Accelerated]

That's what I have been told. It's not true?

 

Presumably it was invented by one of their kings....

Edited May 23, 2005 by Accelerated