Sputnik: Sunheat: Russian Fearsome Thermobaric Flamethrower’s Secrets Revealed (VIDEO)
The burning projectile fired by Russia’s TOS-1A heavy thermobaric flamethrower system is capable of making life a living hell for anyone within its reach. Aptly dubbed “Solntsepyok” (Sunheat), the TOS-1A heavy flamethrower system is a 220 mm 24-barrel multiple rocket launcher and thermobaric weapon mounted on a T-72 tank chassis.
It has gained a uniquely nasty reputation because of the horrifying effects of its fuel-air explosive warheads.
The TOS-1A fires thermobaric rockets, which disperse a cloud of flammable liquid into the air around the target, and then ignite it. The effect of their explosion is absolutely devastating as the blast lasts significantly longer and the resulting shockwave is much hotter and more powerful than anything other conventional warheads can boast of.
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WNU Editor: This weapon system has the reputation of being “the most devastating explosive weapons short of tactical nuclear weapons around.”
2 comments:
Fortunately that's very difficult to make big weapon of this kind.
Thermobaric's of this type lack "area",
TOS, was designed like the US's M58, as a mine clearing charge.
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