Comments by "" (@charlesmartin1121) on "How Russian Flame Artillery Deployed in Ukraine" video.

  1. Are it's effects horrifying. Yes. Is it hideously effective against trenches and bunkers? Yes. But is it a war crime to use such a weapon? No. (Unless used against civilians).
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  2. Why don't we have such a rocket for our M270 MRLS system? Or do we? And I forgot.
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  3.  @josephstalin839  Or the overpressure and/or intense heat from the blast wave. Or the air being sucked-out of the bunker, and replaced with toxic fumes. Yeah not a pretty picture.
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  4.  @jeremywolfe6929  Specify please...'our what is deadly'?
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  5. The Ukrainians could use some TOS-1 for their counter-offensive to break through the Russian prepared defenses.
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  6.  @kameronjones7139  Simple. Take a standard bunker/pillbox, even one constructed from wood timbers and earth. It might only extend a couple feet above ground level, with an gun embrasure toward the front, and one or two entrance points from a connected trench system. The occupants of said bunker/pillbox are reasonably well protected against most HE fragmentation effects, including loads with tungsten balls. The timber and earthen roof and walls being able to shield from both blast and fragments.* Thermobaric weapons are more effective because their effects can reach down into the interior passages in bunkers/pillboxes. *Of course, if an HE/frag shell, rocket or missile lands on or very near to a bunker/pillbox with an impact or delayed fuze than it's a different story. If it's a proximity fuze, coming in from above on a bunker/pillbox, than it has a chance to survive depending on the bursting height and size of the explosive charge.
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  7.  @MasterBlasterSr  That is why they could use some TOS-1 or a homemade equivalent.
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  8.  @kameronjones7139  Which unfortunately will not takeout a reinforced bunker.
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  9.  @kameronjones7139  Well short of a direct hit (with impact or better delayed fuze) anyway.
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