ROKS flamethrowers

ROKS flamethrowers

The ROKS-2 and ROKS-3 were man-portable flamethrowers used by the USSR in the Second World War. The ROKS-2 was designed not to draw attention so the fuel tank was square and resembled a regular backpack, and the nozzle looked like a service rifle. The propellant tank was a small bottle underneath the backpack fuel tank. ROKS-3 was a simplified design and had a regular cylindrical fuel tank. The Finnish designation for captured ROKS-2 units was m/41-r.

Roks-2 were used, amongst other engagements, during the close-range fighting during the first days of the battle of Kursk in 1943."World War II" - Willmott, H.P., Dorling Kindersley, 2004, Page 189, ISBN 1 4053 0477 4]

ee also

* Flamethrowers

References

External links

* [http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/FLAMETHROWER.htm Information on the the ROKS-2]
* [http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/536/ROKS-2.jpgImage of a ROKS-3]


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