Vladimir Putin has deployed a volley missile system that “sucks the air out of its victims.” Ukraine as his occupation war intensified.
TOS-1 Buratino launches “thermobaric” fuel-air missiles, which, when exploded, consume all the oxygen in the area of the explosion, killing everyone in the area.
It may seem that the victims have no visible external injuries, but they will suffer great internal damage.
The weapon is based on the Soviet-era main T-72 battle tank, with the main tower removed and replaced by a missile launch system containing 30.8.5-inch missiles.
The TOS-1 Buratino multiple rocket launcher, pictured here in June 2020 during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, is believed to have been stationed in Ukraine.
The weapon system can fire 30-8.5-inch missiles in 15 seconds. Thermobaric missiles have a range of approximately two miles, with each warhead causing an explosion area 1,000 feet in diameter
The TOS-1A Buratino multiple rocket launcher can fire 30 thermobaric projectiles in 15 seconds, devastating a 1,000-foot-wide blast zone
The system was developed in the mid-1980s and unguided missiles have a range of two miles.
Witnesses say they saw the weapons system crossing into Ukraine from Belarus, possibly heading to Kiev.
Indiscriminate weapons are very effective against people and lightly armored vehicles, causing devastation in an area 1,000 feet in diameter.
The Russians describe TOS-1 Buratino as a “flamethrower”, but military experts say it fired a “wall of napalm at its victims”.
CNN reported that one of the terrifying weapon systems was seen on the back of a transport truck in Belgorod, near the northern Ukrainian border.
This was said by Charlie Gao, a commentator on defense and national security The sun: “Pinocchio and Solntsepek are very useful weapons for the military, which can enter the city battle without paying attention to the side damage.”
However, Putin’s invasion has been dampened by stronger-than-expected resistance from Ukraine’s defense forces.
Kiev’s European allies are sending modern weapons systems to support defense against Russia.
Today, the Netherlands and Germany have promised to send weapons capable of removing heavy armor or military planes and helicopters.
The Dutch quickly delivered 200 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and 50 Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank weapons with 400 missiles.
The Netherlands is also considering sending a Patriot air defense system to a NATO battle group in Slovakia, the statement said.
This Russian multiple rocket launcher was destroyed outside Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, after a battle. This system does not fire the thermobaric rocket
A Ukrainian soldier inspects Russian hardware that is no longer working
The body of a Russian soldier was seen a few meters from the destroyed missile system
The missiles are in addition to other equipment the Netherlands promised earlier this month, including rifles, ammunition, radar systems and mine detection robots.
Earlier on Saturday, the Netherlands said it was moving Dutch embassy staff from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv to Yaroslavl, across the border from Poland, due to deteriorating security.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Berlin would supply Ukraine with 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger surface-to-air missiles from the Bundeswehr’s stockpile.
He said: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point. It is our duty to do everything we can to support Ukraine in defending itself against Putin’s invading army.
Berlin also approved the delivery of 400 RPGs from the Netherlands and a request from Estonia to hand over old howitzers to the GDR in Ukraine. Finland bought the howitzers in the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall and later resold them to Estonia.
Germany has a long-standing policy of not exporting weapons to military zones, rooted in part in its bloody 20th-century history and the resulting pacifism. Countries seeking to surrender German arms exports must first apply for approval in Berlin.
Scholz has repeatedly cited this policy in recent weeks when refusing to supply deadly weapons to Ukraine.
Saturday’s announcement was well received in Kiev. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Twitter: “Continue in the same spirit, Chancellor @OlafScholz! Anti-war coalition in action! ‘