the ags-17 is belt-fed. it uses 30x29mm grenades with steel casing. it usually uses vog-17m, the standard grenade for the ags-17, and the vog-30, which was a better version of the vog-17m with more explosive filling and fragmentation. there is also the vog-30d, a new, improved variant of the vog-30, introduced in 2013. there is also the io-30 grenade, which is he (highly explosive), and the io-30tp which is a practice grenade used for training. finally, it also uses the vus-30, which is a smoke grenade. there is a bulgarian company named arcus that made handheld grenades based on the vog-17m, which are called the ar-rog.