Anti-sabotage grenade launcher DP-64 "Nepryadva" on the background of the Special Operation

DP-64 grenade launcher and shots for it. Photo Vitalykuzmin.net

In service with the Russian army and other domestic law enforcement agencies is the so-called. anti-sabotage grenade launcher DP-64 "Nepryadva". This weapon designed to protect water areas and water areas from a possible attack. With it, a grenade launcher can hit enemy combat swimmers or neutralize another underwater threat. Recently it became known that "Nepryadva" is used in the current Special Operation.

Special tool

According to known data, DP-64 grenade launchers are produced in small batches and are not widely used in the troops and law enforcement agencies. They enter the detachments of anti-sabotage forces and means (PDSS) of the naval fleet and in the marines. Also, grenade launchers were ordered by the border service of the FSB. There is information about the presence of grenade launchers in some units of the National Guard, and recently it became known about their use by airborne troops.

Currently, detachments of the PDSS, border services and the Russian Guard are busy guarding the bases of the Black Sea Fleet and other strategically important facilities in the region. When performing such tasks, all available weapons and means are used. Apparently, during the course of duty and patrolling, the fighters carry and use DP-64 grenade launchers. However, exact information on this subject is not yet available due to the specifics of the work of security units.

At the same time, the Nepryadva grenade launchers are also available from other branches of the military in other areas. Recently it became known about the use of such weapons directly in the zone of the Special Operation. It was used for its intended purpose - to prevent the activities of enemy saboteurs.

20 March RIA News reported on an attempt by Ukrainian combat swimmers to cross the Kakhovka reservoir under water to carry out sabotage on Russian territory. The area was guarded by a division of the Airborne Forces. His fighters timely discovered the enemy and attacked him. With the help of Nepryadva grenades, the enemy was destroyed, and sabotage was prevented.

Open bolt weapon. Photo Arms-expo.ru

It cannot be ruled out that this was far from the only episode of the combat use of the DP-64 grenade launcher in the current Special Operation. Our troops and special services now have to protect large water areas and areas, and the enemy regularly tries to use combat swimmers or unmanned vehicles. Therefore, anti-sabotage units have to continue their work and regularly use their weapons, incl. products "Nepryadva".

Small batches

In 1981, the Tula TsKIB SOO received an order to develop a new anti-sabotage grenade launcher for the Navy. It was intended to replace the existing product DP-61 "Duel" and was supposed to have advantages over it. By this time, the design bureau had some developments on such weapons, and soon they were implemented in the new project DP-64 "Nepryadva".

By the spring of 1983, two variants of such a grenade launcher were developed in 45 and 50 mm calibers with different design features. In the summer of the same year, comparative tests of two products took place in Sevastopol, as a result of which the 50-mm system with an active-rocket grenade was abandoned. The 45-mm grenade launcher was developed. At this stage, the Moscow NPO Bazalt was involved in the project, which was to develop two types of ammunition.

State tests of the finished DP-64 grenade launcher took place in 1988 and ended successfully. According to their results, in 1990 the product was adopted by the Navy. At the plant. Degtyarev (Kovrov), a production line was prepared for the production of grenade launchers, and NPO Bazalt mastered the manufacture of ammunition.

According to known data, for a long time, Nepryadva grenade launchers were produced only in small batches - the limited capabilities of customers affected. Nevertheless, the products entered service with various units and were used on combat duty.

The muzzle of the trunks. Photo Arms-expo.ru

In the future, the situation began to change, and the rate of output increased. Thanks to this, it was possible to complete the rearmament of all the units in need. Moreover, as is now known, the circle of DP-64 operators has expanded. Now this weapon is used even by the Airborne Forces, which are not directly related to the protection of water areas.

Since the beginning of the nineties, Nepryadva has been regularly shown at domestic and foreign exhibitions. The grenade launcher attracted the attention of visitors, but not a single foreign army was willing to purchase it.

According to the dual scheme

DP-64 "Nepryadva" is a hand grenade launcher with two barrels of 45 mm caliber. The total length of the product is 820 mm with a height of 275 mm, weight - 10 kg. The product uses specially designed grenades, with the help of which it ensures the defeat of manpower under water and on water at any time of the day.

To optimize the firing process and increase the practical rate of fire, the DP-64 received two vertical barrels. Each barrel has thin walls and a smooth bore with a caliber of 45 mm. Barrel length - 600 mm. The barrels are connected to each other by vertical couplings and a breech. There are two handles under the barrels, incl. for fire control. The front grip sleeve also serves as the base of the scope.

Both barrels have a common shutter. It is made in the form of a large block containing the trigger mechanism and equipped with a recoil pad. To reload the shutter is unlocked, retracted and rotated to the side. All processes of preparation for the shot are carried out manually. A trigger mechanism is placed inside the shutter. Cocking for both barrels is carried out by a common lever. Uses a single trigger and fuse.

Aiming is carried out using a sectional sight with a range adjustment step of 50 m. The maximum firing range is 400 m. Shooting is provided both direct fire and from a closed position.

The shutter is in the position for reloading. Photo Otvaga2004.ru

Two main munitions were developed for the DP-64: the SG-45 flash grenade and the high-explosive FG-45. Both products have a cylindrical body with a hemispherical head and tail stabilizer. A sleeve with a propellant charge is attached to the shank. Fuse - deep with the ability to install up to 40 m.

The SG-45 grenade is capable of floating on the surface of the water and carries a pyrotechnic charge with a burning time of approx. 1 min. A high-explosive charge for the FG-45 creates a shock wave in the water. It negatively affects the hearing organs of the target and the body as a whole. The defeat of manpower is provided within a radius of 12-14 m from the point of detonation. Shooting at targets on land is possible, but gives limited results due to the small number of fragments.

The Nepryadva grenade launcher can be used in a variety of ways. So, the simplest one involves shooting at the location of the target with high-explosive grenades. At night, FG-45 should be interspersed with light SG-45; shooting of the latter is carried out as needed. In the past, it was recommended to use one barrel only with SG-45 grenades, and use the other for shelling a target.

For your tasks

The anti-sabotage grenade launcher DP-64 "Nepryadva" has an unusual design and uses specially designed ammunition. Due to this, it was possible to obtain a sufficient level of performance and provide a solution to a specific combat mission. With the help of "Nepryadva", the grenade launcher can control the water area with a radius of hundreds of meters and, if necessary, attack and destroy enemy manpower under water.

Due to the specific role of DP-64, it is not produced in a large series and receives limited distribution. However, it is able to effectively solve its own task and helps protect important coastal facilities, ships, water areas, etc. There is a place for such weapons even in the current predominantly land-based Special Operation.

Comments

[Leader_Barmaleev]

I will share my memory. It was far to the south. The fact that a sabotage group would come to us was known in advance by intelligence and the group was greeted with a salute from just such a shooter. Two went to the bottom, and one was caught, but in such a form that they immediately dragged him to my first-aid post. So, the face and eyes were badly damaged, as the mask (a very good Skubov mask with plex instead of glass) was shattered into fragments and, in combination with water hammer, both the face and eyes were very badly damaged. Ears - there were simply no eardrums, plus both Eustachian tubes were damaged by water hammer - blood flowed from the ears for another half a day. When the poor guy walked away a little, he crouched into a fetal position and howled - the eggs were beaten off so that despite the fact that it was an enemy, and an experienced one, and he didn’t come to us for tea and cake, but at that moment he was very pity even the harsh landing. The next day, a severe clinic of upholstered kidneys, intestines and liver went, when the dude came to his senses, he had only one request for us - FILL IT OUT!!! In short, we handed him over to counterintelligence only on the eighth day - before that it was simply impossible to communicate with him. The further fate of this unfortunate saboteur is unknown to me, but there was no doubt that he became a severe invalid for the rest of his life. Summary - when applied to the time and place it is a VERY effective tool for dealing with the "quissors", and that rare case when the survivors envy the dead.

[senima56]

Thanks for the interesting fact. It's immediately obvious it's true.

[Eule]

Didn't you get a version in 66-mm caliber, with two telescopic butt rods? She just has almost one and a half kg of a mine without a shell. But because of the long-stroke shock absorber, the stance for shooting from it is very specific - elbows to the sides, and not trying to resist the recoil, but tolerating the movement of the handles back. And the handles were rounded so as not to injure the hands. Fracture recharge. I don't remember the index.
A shot into the water about 25 meters from the side caused a lot of popular expressions from the mechanics who jumped out of the hold. Although the most "happy" was the member of the commission who visited the latrine, to whom the shock wave, wandering into the fan pipe, put an enema and irrigated the uniform on his back.
Whether they were accepted into service - I don’t know.

[Mister22408]

Terrible people, these arrows from a double-barreled shotgun ... Apparently then they beat off the kidneys with a butt ... But how did they aim - according to the bearing and distance from the GAK? :-). Ah, I forgot - they have a mask from the "scuba" (which means simple hooligans and don't know how to get around the HAK that is on the boat named after the bird :-)). And when he howled from something, how did his lungs with barotrauma, which is obligatory in such cases, not creak? they picked it up after being taken from the bottom alive with a mouthpiece flying out and a broken mask ... Serious divers in the landing ...

[QuestionsNeudobny]

anti-sabotage grenade launcher DP-64 "Nepryadva"

well, how our writers love to invent and glue labels and stickers. they probably think it's "cool" and "creative"?
but I have never heard or read that PKM is called an "anti-personnel (anti-offensive) machine gun."
why angry? Yes, because - a saboteur is a multi-variant fighter. and this grenade launcher, quote:

The DP-64 "Nepryadva" grenade launcher system is designed to protect surface ships from attacks by divers at open anchorages, external roads, base points, as well as to protect against attack by combat swimmers of offshore platforms, hydraulic structures and other important coastal and offshore facilities.

Well, where is the word here - "anti-sabotage"? many of the writers react very nervously to the word "journal ashlyushka", for some reason it seems offensive to them.
link:

https://www.arms-expo.ru/armament/samples/1332/65953/

[Leader_Barmaleev]

My friend, I understand your sincere desire to fight journalistic "freethinking", but in this particular case, your pathos flies half a meter past the cash register - this grenade launcher is called the "Anti-sabotage grenade launcher". When you take it out of the box, you will see an instruction book, on the cover of which exactly such name, brand and modification index are printed in large size. By the way, let me remind you that there are also anti-tank grenade launchers. And the site you are referring to is a popular site where journalists also write. So calm down, you need to, calm down...

[QuestionsNeudobny]

anti-tank grenade launcher is designed to destroy tank armored vehicles. it has a purpose. and saboteurs, by the way, are not only marine. so I had no pathos and no. and on the site, the link to which I provided, the writing brethren quite keep themselves in their hands without inventing.

[Bingo]

Quote from: QuestionsNeudobny

anti-tank grenade launcher is designed to destroy tank armored vehicles. it has a purpose.

For pillboxes, buildings, helicopters in a hovering position, light and unarmored vehicles ... For example, even RPGs, ANTI-TANK, in principle, have non-anti-tank pencils.
"Stubbornness is the first sign of stupidity"

[Momotomba]

Would you like to rename?
Then let's start with an anti-tank rifle, which is not designed for firing shot / buckshot, which means it is a rifle. And you yourself understand that it is also impossible to throw an RGN while in a trench at an advancing enemy.

[Tarasios]

I even remembered that in my childhood I had a similar "grenade launcher", though it was single-barreled, but also cool) Something like this:

[Pavel57]

Does Ukraine have this grenade launcher, or another model?

[Timur_kz]

Isn't it easier to make a single-barrel with a drum for 4-6 grenades?

[Momotomba]

Technically more difficult. Yes, 2 grenades are enough.

[Eule]

Quote: Timur_kz

with a drum for 4-6 grenades?

And where to get blacks who can turn such a drum?

[vadivm59]

manual revolving grenade launcher RG-6 "dwarf".

[vadivm59]

there is also DP-65, MRG-1 is called OGONEK. of a similar purpose.

[Evgeny_Sviridenko]

For large water areas, automatic programmable grenade launcher systems are needed. With variable coverage parameters, blasting depth. As for barrage measures (the enemy, knowing that while he will be moving and will definitely fall into the affected area, will refuse sabotage) I heard that in Cam Ranh, at our base in Vietnam, the water area was periodically shelled precisely with a "preventive" purpose. Of course, these are fantasies, but in the case of large water areas, one "Nepryadvoi" is not enough. We need AGS with ammunition preferably adapted to the aquatic environment.

[Kerensky]

Yes, there is a use for it!
On Ladoga, foxes rummage around on fresh ice, picking out fry along the cracks. The radar beeps, it interferes with sleep, the infection is visible on the cameras. I would have gasped with a doublet from this kurumultuk, but .... The distance to the beast is from six hundred meters ..