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Reading Russia MoD telegram I am seeing increasing reports of FLAMETHROWER crews from the Russian side.
Handheld ones? Asking because the TOS-1 has been used plenty in the war, and while it's likely classified as an MLRS by the west, it's called "heavy flamethrower system" in Russian.
Likewise, Shmel thermobaric launcher is also classified as a "flamethrower".
Yeah with the Russian military you can pretty much always translate "flamethrower" as some kind of thermobaric weapons. Flamethrowers are kids stuff when you can turn entire buildings in to dust or rip the lungs out of everyone in a bunker complex without having to get within a mile of it.
Aye, I figured it required clarification because when one reads "flamethrower" in media, it usually brings up the image of a WW1 style firehose with a backpack canister, wielded by a gasmask-wearing German. Which I suspect might be intentional.
They're still horrendous weapons, imo. But surely it's not as horrific as using white phosphorus, like the yanks did in Iraq?