This Is the Terrifying New Weapon Russia Could Use to Kill U.S. Tanks

This Is the Terrifying New Weapon Russia Could Use to Kill U.S. Tanks The latest TOS-2 'Tosochka' heavy flamethrowers are now currently undergoing trial tests, the Russian military announced last Friday. 

 

 While many nations, including the United States, have ceased using flamethrowers, Moscow has doubled down with its efforts to utilize fire on the modern battlefield. Rather than the backpack-and-nozzle systems that were employed with infantry throughout both World Wars, Russia developed its TOS-1A Solntsepek ('Scorching Sun'), a multiple rocket launcher platform mounted on a T-72 tank chassis to launch thermobaric rockets.

 

The latest TOS-2 'Tosochka' heavy flamethrowers are now currently undergoing trial tests, the Russian military announced last Friday according to Tass.

"Heavy flamethrower TOS-2 is one of the newest weapons with the RCBD [Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense] troops," Chief of Russia's Chemical, Biological and Radiation Protection Forces Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov said in an interview with the Russian Defense Ministry's Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. "The pilot batch of the weapons at the issue was delivered to the military this year and it is currently under a trial test."

The current trials following the first round of testing involving the flamethrower, which took place during the "Kavkaz-2020" military drills at the Kapustin Yar proving ground in Russia's Astrakhan Region. The main drills stage was attended by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, but it is unknown if he saw the Tosochka in action.