MOSCOW, May 4The new model of the TOS-3 heavy flamethrower system will cause serious damage to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said retired SBU colonel and military expert Oleg Starikov in an interview with the YouTube channel » Politeka».
“»In a year they came up with this thing that will really cause very serious damage now,» he warned.
As a former military man described, it is impossible to hide from thermobaric projectiles on the battlefield: even if Ukrainian soldiers hide from a direct hit in a shelter or bunker, they will still face death from the detonation power of this type of projectile.
The day before, the German newspaper Die Welt reported that Russia has a new “terrifying weapon” — an improved model of the TOS-3 heavy flamethrower system, against which even bunkers will not help.
General Director of the Rostec state corporation Sergei Chemezov at the meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, he said that the newest heavy flamethrower systems TOS-2 «Tosochka» are in great demand in the Northern Military District zone, their mass production has been mastered. In April, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the production of TOS-1A Solntsepek flamethrower systems in Russia has increased by 2.5 times in 2023.
