A Solntsepek are T-72 tank-chassis-mounted heavy thermobaric rocket launchers designed to devastate light armored vehicles, fortifications, and personnel with area-effect overpressure and high ...

Ukraine appears to have destroyed two Russian thermobaric rocket launchers, using US artillery. Russia has been using them to strike Ukrainian positions in recent days to stall the counteroffensive.

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

A new video shows a Ukrainian drone hitting a Russian thermobaric rocket launcher. The collision causes a massive explosion as the rockets explode. The TOS-1 is a blunt force instrument for ...

1 Ukrainian forces fire a TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy thermobaric rocket launcher toward Russian positions near Kreminna, in the Luhansk region, on July 7. The Ukrainian Army's Da Vinci Battalion ...

Ukrainian Security Service officers have destroyed another Russian TOS-1A Solntsepek, a multi-barrel rocket launch (MBRL) system, using a drone on the Zaporizhzhia front. Source: Security Service of ...