Typically, when we talk about armored fighting vehicles, they've either been decommissioned for years or, at the very least, aren't being actively used on a battlefield, but that's not the case with ...

Ukraine "successfully destroyed" a Russian thermobaric artillery weapon in the south of the war-torn country, Kyiv has said. Kyiv's SBU security service took out a TOS-1A, or Solntsepyok, system in ...

Successive frames showing the formation and dispersal of a condensation cloud behind the shockwave from a TOS-1 thermobaric rocket The TOS-1A delivers heavier firepower over a shorter range than other ...

Key Points: Russia's TOS-1 Buratino and its upgraded TOS-1A Solntsepek are T-72 tank-chassis-mounted heavy thermobaric rocket launchers designed to devastate light armored vehicles, fortifications, ...

May 9, 2023: Russia gained some notoriety recently because they had sent some of their TOS-1A tank-mounted thermobaric 220mm rocket launchers to Ukraine. A TOS-1A carries 24 220mm rockets while a ...

Russian engineers have integrated 220-millimeter launch tubes from the TOS-1A “Solntsepyok” heavy flamethrower system into a ...

December 21, 2023: Ukraine has demonstrated lots of ingenuity and innovation while fighting the invading Russian forces. A recent example of this was the Ukrainian use of UAVs (quadcopters) carrying a ...

The TOS-1 Buratino is a unique Russian self-propelled multiple rocket launcher system (MRLS) that has seen action in global hotspots like Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Syria. Like the enormous ...

Military analysts say the footage highlights serious design problems rather than a technological breakthrough. The system, known as the Malvina-M, appears to struggle with stability, accuracy and ...