Military grade rounds are much more powerful than their makeshift counterparts, and can be used in an emergency or against strong enemies to defeat them quickly, but as you are essentially 'shooting money', one should be careful not to do this too regularly. Ten military grade rounds, along with a batch of one hundred dirty 5.45mm cartridges and the player's first Bastard carbine, are later given out to Artyom by the armourer when visiting the armoury. Picking it up will bring up a pop-up window, explaining the currency mechanics and the role of MGRs in the game.

In the level ' Exhibition', Artyom has a stripper clip of MGRs on his desk. Military grade rounds are first encountered right at the beginning of Metro 2033. In a gun, most easily visible in the Bastard's clip, they are much the same as dirty rounds, except they are much shinier, making it easy to see what has been loaded in Ranger Modes. In Metro: Last Light, MGRs return as shiny, 5 round stripper clips, but the actual amount found in the clips varies from 1 up to 15 rounds, yet the model is always the same. Military-grade rounds have a polished, glossy look to them, while dirty rounds are, for lack of a better word - dirty. In Metro 2033, MGRs are kept either as a single bullet, in five round stripper clips or in the rectangular 30-round clips for the Bastard. This provides the user with increased stopping power and weapon reliability (as professionally produced, high-quality rounds are less likely to jam), but one has to consider the fact that they are literally 'shooting money', which they might need later to buy medkits, gas mask filters, or other crucial pieces of equipment.Īpart from military grade rounds, there are also Metro-made dirty 5.45mm rounds, which have the same caliber and are one of the most common types of ammunition used in the Metro and post-apocalyptic Russia, but due to their lower quality and reproducibility, these rounds can not be used as a form of currency. Military grade rounds can, obviously, also be used as regular ammunition.

Due to this, and the fact that real money lost all its value after the War, Metro inhabitants chose to use military grade 5.45mm rounds as their most widespread form of currency. Because they were produced using professional machinery and with high-quality materials, rounds of this quality cannot be reproduced in the post-apocalyptic Metro system. Military Grade Rounds, or simply MGRs are 5.45x39mm military rounds, produced before The Great War of 2013.

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