In the Ministry of Defense, the infantry jet flamethrower, developed by specialists of one of the institutions of the defense industry sector, was codified and allowed for use in the troops.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine informs about this.
The agency noted that it is a portable weapon designed to destroy enemy fire points, light armored vehicles and enemy vehicles. You can also use a flamethrower to destroy enemy manpower behind shelters, barriers and in open terrain.
The flamethrower is equipped with a rocket-propelled grenade with a special thermobaric mixture. Due to its high-explosive effect, the explosion of this grenade is equivalent to the detonation of a large-caliber artillery shell. At the place of its impact, a layer of fire with a volume of about fifteen cubic meters appears and an area of increased pressure is formed. The burning temperature is almost 2500 degrees. The danger to the enemy's manpower remains at a distance of more than fifty meters from the epicenter of the explosion. The use of a flamethrower is particularly effective during assault operations in an urban environment: in areas with capital construction, buried shelters, etc. For example, an enemy hiding in a brick building will have no chance of survival if a flamethrower shot explodes inside. of a new model of weapons and military equipment (OMT) has been reduced to 10 days.
Codified and introduced to the staff list of military units, a sample of domestically produced OVT is allowed to be purchased at the expense of the state budget and used in the Armed Forces.