Balkan is Russia’s newest automated grenade launcher designed to replace 30 mm AGLs (AGS-17 Plamya (Flame) and AGS-30) currently in service. According to Kochkin, its fire range is 25% wider and ...

"Crews manning AGS-17 Plamya automatic grenade launchers from the Battlegroup North have taken concentrations of small Ukrainian mobile groups under control in a border area of the Kursk Region." ...