Russians lost the state-of-the-art TOS-2 Tosochka flamethrower system

The Russians lost the state-of-the-art TOS-2 Tosochka flamethrower system near Pokrovsk.

Accordingly, the photos were published by the national news portal Tysch on Telegram with reference to the user Aloha in the X network.

The photos taken by the Russian military near Pokrovsk showed the first loss of a Russian TOS-2 Tosochka heavy flamethrower system.

The system was used by the Russians against the Ukrainian Defense Forces and was destroyed by an unknown weapon, which caused a fire in which it burned.

The enemy system was destroyed in the village of Petrivka, Pokrovsk district, at coordinates 48.16573, 37.20761, 10 km from the city.

The first use of the new heavy flamethrower system was reported in October 2023, when the Russian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed that the system was being used in the war against Ukraine.

Read more on TOS-2 Tosochka in the article on Militarnyi.

TOS-2 Tosochka is a modernized version and further development of the TOS-1 Buratino and TOS-1A Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems, which are already in service with the Russian army. The system was developed by NPO Splav.

The launcher is based on the Ural-63706 6×6 truck. Unlike TOS-1 and TOS-1A, which use tracked chassis of T-72 or T-90 tanks, respectively.

Read more on the TOS-2 Tosochka in the article on Militarnyi.

The TOS-2 cab has been armored to protect the crew from small arms fire. The wheeled chassis increases the launcher’s efficiency, mobility, and range.

The developers state that the system can use modernized projectiles that allow it to fire at a greater distance than the TOS-1A missiles, which have a range of 6 kilometers.

Militarnyi previously reported that in June 2024, the Russian Ministry of Defense presented its new TOS-3 Dragon flamethrower system with an extended range for the first time.