Psychologically presses on the enemy: does it make sense in the thermobaric "seeder VM8" for the Armed Forces

"VM8 seeder" has time to unfold, shoot and disappear in just 3-5 minutes. Because of this, "horror" goes among the Russians. The Ukrainian reactive system "VM8", designed for firing thermobaric jet shells, looks less powerful than the Russian self-propelled flamethrough of the Tos-1 "SolnPepke". Defense Express analyzed the feasibility of such weapons.

The mobile and compact system "VM8" for firing thermobaric C-8TR has 16 guides under the reactive shells of the 80-mm caliber, one of which is enough to burn a hectare of territory. The base is the improved Ford Ranger pickup. At a distance of firing up to 8-10 kilometers, the installation is able to unfold, shoot for a target and leave the position in just 3-5 minutes.

For the first time, the use of mobile systems "Sivale" under C-8 became known in the spring of 2023, and if the use of such mini-RSSU is still practiced, then in battles against Russian invaders it gives its effect, the publication said. In addition to the direct kinetic effect in the form of a hectare of the burned land "seeder VM8" can be psychologically pressed on the enemy.

For example, the Russians remember that such pickups from mini-RSZV allegedly appear somewhere in the rear of the army of the Russian Federation and "from the back" are fire on their positions, and with that, they are murmured, they can not do anything. Therefore, as Defense Express summed up, although Solnacekek tons-1 looks more powerful, but the "VM8 seeder" is also advisable in the war. And it is also a psychological effect that Ukrainian weapons have an enemy.