Posted on 01/03/2022 5:54:48 PM PST by McGruff
Arguably the most frightening for Ukraine’s beleaguered defenders, hunkering in their trenches, are the Russian army’s TOS-1 rocket launchers. If the Russians roll west, the TOS-1s could shoot first, targeting the Ukrainians’ earthworks with their 220-millimeter thermobaric rockets.
Thermobaric munitions are uniquely destructive. They burst over their targets, spreading a fuel vapor, before exploding and igniting the fuel and creating a pressure wave that’s twice as powerful as that from a conventional artillery shell.
“A fuel-air explosive can have the effect of a tactical nuclear weapon without residual radiation,” Lester Grau and Timothy Smith explained in a 2000 article in Marine Corps Gazette.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Sure, some say 152-mm howitzer is good to hunt goose. Why not nukes?
Swiss aphorism: “shoot twice and go home.”
Nothing surgical about Russian combat doctrine.
I always turn to “Forbes” for the latest in military tactics. Sheesh!
Yep, knowing what was coming couldn’t have been pleasant.
Russia ‘moves ATOMIC mortar that fires nukes & laser ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14582261/russia...
The Russians used thermobaric
artillery shells on the Ukrainians years ago with devastating results. I saw some pictures of those killed by them. Time for the Ukies to bring out their hidden nukes, the ones they didn’t turn over to their “allies”.
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