Russian troops have switched to a new tactic of using flamethrower systems

The Russian military has mastered a new tactic of using heavy flamethrower systems (CBT). Now combat vehicles of different modifications are working together — the TOS-1A Solntsepek creates a frontal shaft of fire, and the TOS-2 Tosochka destroys targets behind enemy lines with precision strikes, sources in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestia.

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Intensive training has been organized in one of the combined arms armies of the Dnepr group of forces.

The wheeled Tosochka is more mobile than the Solntsepek on a tank chassis. This allows you to quickly change positions, deliver unexpected fire strikes, and successfully avoid return fire. It is also important that the system actively uses new, more accurate rockets that can destroy targets at a distance of up to 15 km, the interlocutors of the publication noted.

In a pair of Solntsepek and Tosochka, each flamethrower system is designed to solve its own combat mission, military expert Alexei Leonkov told Izvestia.

The "sunburners" burn out the fortified areas located directly on the front line. Tosochka works on more remote targets. Thus, they divide the impact bands on the enemy. There are many important targets in the immediate rear. For example, tactical drone control points are located at depths of up to 10 km. They are the ones who work on the front edge and fly deep into our territory using repeaters to a depth of 10 to 30 km. The destruction of such control points is one of the priorities. In the latest reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the number of such affected objects is in the dozens," he explained.

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TOSno on target: troops have switched to new tactics of using flamethrower systems