Sputnik: Terrifying Bumblebee: Fires Incendiary Bombs, Barbecues Enemy Indoors
Military experts from Popular Mechanics, a US magazine of popular technology, are quite impressed with the capabilities of the Russian portable flamethrower system with a cute nickname Bumblebee, which nevertheless is capable of completely devastating enemy forces not only in the open but in bunkers, trenches, and even armored vehicles.
Russian rocket-propelled flame thrower, the Bumblebee, was originally developed due to the need for more effective fire power against an enemy entrenched in fortified positions, houses, caves and other solid cover.
It is a single-shot rocket launcher along the lines of the American LAW or AT4, the magazine says. Once used, the launcher is thrown away.
WNU Editor: From the above video it does not look impressive .... but apparently for those "in the know" it is a terrifying weapon to face.
1 comment:
WNU Editor,
Technically, it's not a "flamethrower", it fires thermobaric warhead missiles.
Thermobaric warheads have a smaller "blast" radius for their given size, minimal shrapnel, but the blast effect turns flesh and bones into jelly, the blast effect can travel down tunnels and around corners, and in an area slightly larger than the blast area, all the O2 is consumed, so that people in tunnel and bunker systems, beyond the blast area, suffocate.
The system is operated by Specialist CBW troops, attacked to the Strategic Rocket Forces, as the weapon was origionally designed to clear areas of CBW attack effects.
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