Reply With QuoteIts actually just a BTR-70 which is modernized. Most likely the BTR-70 M1986/1.Originally Posted by Dark Avenger
The BTR-80 has double hatch style side doors, unlike this model which only has the one lower hatch.
I thought as much. A weapon with short-range meant to be used on the front-line against tough customers.
To have it in an artillery battalion wouldn't make much sense, due to the superiority of the Grad's and Smerch's at those tasks, right?
Its actually just a BTR-70 which is modernized. Most likely the BTR-70 M1986/1.
The BTR-80 has double hatch style side doors, unlike this model which only has the one lower hatch.
Indeed. TOS are used in NBC-protection bataillons. (a salvo destroy not only structures and humans in the target area but due to extremely high temperature incapacitate chemical agents). Nevetheless their primary purpose is assault on heavy fortified positions.
Someone has to post photos of Makarov and Suvorov Cadets since they attend these prestigious institutions. I have some photos of them that I took when I was in St.Petersburg, but they are not of good quality.
Last edited by Wiseman; 06-24-2007 at 12:39 AM.
You mean Nahimov and Suvorov Cadets?
Makarov Cadets http://www.gma.ru/
Last edited by Wiseman; 06-24-2007 at 01:27 AM.
i love Buratino so much, its pitty there are not so much pics and vids bout TOS-1A.
First upgraded Mi-24PNs (Zarevo FLIR, fixed landing gear, shortened wings that can carry 16x Shturm/Ataka ATGM + rocket pods etc) being delivered, from the year before last (IIRC):
Repost of what I posted at the end of the last page in thumbnail mode because they're huge:
For a good reason too. Technically it's a forbidden kind of weapon...napalm and such. Cluster bombs, depleted uranium, phosphorus ammunition...everyone has them, no one says a thing, as long as it's not advertised.
Buratino is nor napalm, nor cluster bomb nor phosphorus. It's a FAE-rocket launcher and there is not a single international convention or UN-resolution which forbids, limits or mention FAE-weapons in any way.
for those who don't know - this is Buratino -->
It's Pinocchio!
No dude this is the real TOS-1-4 Buratino system
No dude this is the real TOS-1-4 Buratino system, which first gained widespread notice in combat in Chechnya, fires a 220mm "flame rocket" which is probably a fuel-air explosive. This type of munition releases a large cloud of flammable gas and cause massive explosions that can clear out bunkers and other fortifications. The TOS-1-4 [expansion unknown] was first displayed publicly at the third international Omsk '99 exhibition of ground and air equipment in June 1999. Held on the grounds of the Polyot aerospace amalgamation, demonstration exercises and firing tests were held at the Svetly township test site. Possibly a prototype, the chassis is based on the T-72 tank. Systems of this type in the West are typically employed for mine-clearing operations, and it is possible that this system was pressed into service in Chechnya for this purpose, as well as to employ the fuel-air explosive area denial munition against Chechen fighters in urban areas.It's Pinocchio!
During the 1994-95 war in Chechnya the Russians were surprised by the sophistication of the Chechen use of ****y-traps and mines. Chechens mined and ****y-trapped everything, showing excellent insight into the actions and reactions of the average Russian soldier. Mine and ****y- trap awareness was hard to maintain among poorly trained Russian troops. In the recent fighting that began in late 1999, the Chechen capital Grozny has been heavily mined by Chechen forces, who are fighting from shelters for grenade-launcher- and machine-gun crews. The Russian military has also charged that Chechen fighters preparing to wage chemical warfare using chlorine, ammonia and sulphuric acid bombs buried in Grozny. The TOS-1-4 system's area denial capability would be useful for both mine-clearing operations, as well as in operations against dug-in troops.
The "Buratino" was the main thermobaric delivery system that the Russians used against Grozny. It was first combat-tested in Afghanistan's Panjshir valley in the early 1980s during the Soviet- Afghan War. Built by the Omsk Transmash design bureau, Buratino is a 30-barrel 220mm multiple rocket launcher system mounted on a T-72 tank chassis. It is found in the chemical troops' separate flame thrower battalions. It is an observed-fire system with a maximum effective range of 3.5 kilometers (other sources say it has a maximum range of five kilometers). The minimum range is 400 meters. The rocket mounts an incendiary or a thermobaric warhead. The zone of ensured destruction from a Buratino salvo is 200 x 400 meters. The official designation of the Buratino is the TOS-1. The thermobaric warhead is filled with a combustible liquid. The liquid is most likely filled with powdered tetranite. When the warhead explodes, the liquid is vaporized creating an aerosol cloud. When the cloud mixes with oxygen, it detonates, first creating a high temperature cloud of flame followed by a crushing overpressure.
In early December 1999 Chechnya accused the Russian military of using an unidentified type of chemical weapon in the assault on Grozny. According to Chechen reports, over 30 people were killed in the attack, which witnesses said produced unusually yellow flames, and more than 200 others suffered various degrees of burns. Although unconfirmed, these reports are suggestive of the incomplete detonation of the fuel aerosol dispersed from a fuel-air explosive. Munitions of this type require precise aerosol dispersal of fuel to ensure proper mixing with atmospheric oxygen, followed by precisely timed firing of a small initiator charge to produce a large explosion. Improper disperal of the fuel aerosol or a mis-timed firing of the initiator could produce a large fireball, but the resulting deflagration would not produce the blast shock wave of the intended explosive detonation. The challenge of reliably producing consistent detonations has limited the application of this type of munition in Western arsenals.
As of 08 December 1999 the United States Department of State acknowledged that they were aware of reports that Russia was using fuel air bombs, but it could not confirm specific reports of their employment. By late December 1999 news agencies were reporting that Russian warplanes had begun dropping powerful aerosol bombs on Chechen bases, sometimes located in caves and deep trenches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuratinoIt's Pinocchio!
its Buratino.Buratino (Russian: Буратино) is the main character of the book The Gold Key, or Adventures of Buratino by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Buratino is a loose Russian translation of Pinocchio - like Pinocchio, he is a long nosed wooden puppet, which is where the similarities end.
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