Jet infantry flame thrower RPO "Bumblebee" (It is known in the war in Afghanistan as "Shaitan-pipe") - Soviet Russia reactive flame thrower disposable. Peresnaryazheniyu not be. It represents a shell-rocket, stuffed ognesmesi.
flamethrower Bumblebee – video
Designed to defeat hidden enemy firing points, the scrapping of the lightly armored and automotive vehicles, destruction of enemy personnel. Sighting range flamethrower with rear sight - 200 m. By explosive fragmentation effects of 93-mm caliber flamethrower for basic purposes does not concede 122-152-mm artillery shells. With the explosion of the high temperature pulse is accompanied by a sharp drop of pressure, formed due to an explosion of fuel-air mixture.
Destroying all life in the amount of up to 80 m³; lesion area: in open terrain - from 50 m², in a confined space - to 80 m². Sheltered goal disabling due to the differential pressure, even without breaking barriers, if they are not sealed. Shooting is possible for embrasures bunkers, lightly armored targets, etc.. d. It developed in the 1980s in the Instrument Design Bureau. Mechanical fuses have been developed by the Research Institute of Technology in Balashikha.
Device
Flamethrower consists of the following components: container, munition, collets and motor.
Container for a shot, direction of the target munition and providing a sealed package shell with equipment and engine. The container consists of a pipe with flanges, placed on it: trigger mechanism, sighting device, belt, connection nodes in the pack (front and rear tires).
ammunition It is designed to hit a target. It is an artillery shell feathered, cranks in flight. Ammunition consisting of capsules, filled ognesmesi, fuse unit and igniting a bursting charge-tablets.
Sheath with equipment attached to the engine by means of a collet.
Engine Posts munition designed to speed. engine powder, separated from the ammunition in the barrel, with the expiration part of the propellant gases in the barrel space zasnaryadnoe. It consists of a camera, the propellant and ignitor.
modifications
Available in three versions:
RPO-A (thermobaric warhead based on heat and excess pressure). To destroy hidden firepower in the city, in the field and in the mountains, for the destruction of shelters, trucking and light armored vehicles.
CA-W (incendiary munition). To create a landscape fires and fires in buildings, plants and fuel depot.
RPO-D (smoke ammunition). To create smoke screens, dazzling calculations of fire weapons and manpower for the intolerable conditions in various types of shelters.
MRO-A (thermobaric warhead based on heat and excess pressure). A shortened version of the RPO-A for action in, in structure partially similar to RPG-26. There are options to smoke (MRO-D) and fiery (MPO-W).
"Bumblebee-M" - modification, Major improvements mentioned weight reduction to 8,8 kg, increasing power ODBCH.
The performance characteristics of the flamethrower Bumblebee
Caliber, mm: 93
Effective range, m: 600
Range capsule flight, m: 1000
Weight flamethrower, kg: 11
Weight per capsule ognesmesi, kg: 2,1
Length, mm: 920
Equivalent warhead in trotyl, kg: 2,5
Photo Bumblebee flamethrower
Pierced the armor of BMP with a flamethrower “Bumblebee”
