The RShG-1 rocket assault grenade is designed to engage enemy manpower in the open, in field shelters, buildings and structures of various types, light armored and soft-skinned vehicles.

It destroys enemy manpower in trenches and bunkers when the grenade explodes at up to 2 meters from the trench and loophole and inside rooms up to 300 m3.

The warhead has a high blast, fragmentation and incendiary effect.