How Russian Flame Artillery Deployed in Ukraine

Get Your Own Mini GOAT Replica Today To counter entrenched positions, militaries in the 1970s and 80s increasingly relied on air power and artillery that was getting more accurate with each passing year. This approach had limitations though as regular artillery could be slow to respond and still had trouble defeating the heaviest types of fortification, while airstrikes required air superiority and were still vulnerable to air defenses like SAM’s and infantry teams with short range missiles. To fill this capability gap left behind after the retirement of flame tanks, the Soviet military began designing what would become the TOS-1 in the early 1980s. Written by: Chris Cappy & Diego Aceituno Edited by: Savvy Studios Development was carried out in secret at the KTBM design bureau in Omsk, entering service in 1988 during the final years of the Soviet-Afghan War. Despite being used in combat trials in the Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan, the TOS-1 wasn’t unveiled t