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RPO-A Shmel, the Glossary

The RPO-A Shmel (lit) is a man-portable, single-use, rocket-assisted thermobaric weapon.^[1]

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Cold War weapons of the Soviet Union
Flamethrowers of the Soviet Union
Incendiary rocket launchers
Rocket-propelled grenade launchers
Thermobaric weapons

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Al-Qassam Brigades

The Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades (EQB; translit), named after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, is the military wing of the Palestinian nationalist organization Hamas.

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Allotropes of phosphorus

Elemental phosphorus can exist in several allotropes, the most common of which are white and red solids.

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Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).

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Armament Research Services

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a consultancy company providing expertise and analyses in the field of arms and munitions to governments and non-government organizations.

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Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones.

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Beslan school siege

The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was a Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004.

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Bumblebee

A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cobra (militia)

The Cobra Militia, is also known as Forces Démocratique and Patriotique (FDP), was a militia during the civil war in the Republic of the Congo that fought for Denis Sassou Nguesso.

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Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda

The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, FDLR) (IDKR) is an armed rebel group active in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Denis Sassou Nguesso

Denis Sassou Nguesso (born 23 November 1943) is a Congolese politician and former military officer who became president of the Republic of the Congo in 1997.

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Diopter sight

A diopter sight is an aperture sight component used to assist the aiming of ranged weapons, mainly firearms, airguns, and crossbows.

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Donetsk People's Republic

The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika (DNR),; ДНР) is a republic of Russia, comprising the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, with its capital in Donetsk.

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Eurosatory

Eurosatory is the largest international exhibition for the land and air-land defence and security industry.

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FHJ-84

The FHJ-84 is an over/under twin-barreled 62 mm incendiary rocket launcher developed by Norinco for the People's Liberation Army. RPO-A Shmel and FHJ-84 are incendiary rocket launchers and military equipment introduced in the 1980s.

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First Chechen War

Chechen resistance against Russian imperialism has its origins from 1785 during the time of Sheikh Mansur, the first imam (leader) of the Caucasian peoples.

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Flamethrower

A flamethrower is a ranged incendiary device designed to project a controllable jet of fire.

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Incendiary device

Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires.

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Indian Army

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir, a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger geographical region of Kashmir, which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.

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Israel–Hamas war

An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.

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KBP Instrument Design Bureau

JSC Konstruktorskoe Buro Priborostroeniya (KBP) (AO konstruktórskoje bjuró priborostrojénija Joint-Stock Company - Instrument Design Bureau) is one of the main enterprises in the field of Russian defense industry, based in Tula.

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Kivu conflict

The Kivu conflict is an umbrella term for a series of protracted armed conflicts in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo which have occurred since the end of the Second Congo War.

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Kurdistan Workers' Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.

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List of modern Russian small arms and light weapons

The following is a list of modern Russian small arms and light weapons which were in service in 2024.

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M202 FLASH

The M202 FLASH ("Flame Assault Shoulder") is an American rocket launcher manufactured by Northrop Corporation, designed to replace the World War II–vintage flamethrowers (such as the M1 and the M2) that remained the military's standard incendiary devices well into the 1980s. RPO-A Shmel and M202 FLASH are incendiary rocket launchers.

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M4 carbine

The M4 carbine (officially Carbine, Caliber 5.56 mm, M4) is a 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle developed in the United States during the 1980s.

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Mikhail Tolstykh

Mikhail Sergeyevich Tolstykh (Михаил Сергеевич Толстых; Mykhailo Serhiiovych Tolstykh; 19 July 1980 – 8 February 2017), better known by his nom de guerre Givi (Гиви), was a Ukrainian separatist officer wanted for war crimes.

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MRO-A

The MRO Borodach is a Russian self-contained, disposable single shot 72.5 mm rocket launcher. RPO-A Shmel and MRO-A are incendiary rocket launchers.

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Night-vision device

A night-vision device (NVD), also known as a night optical/observation device (NOD) or night-vision goggle (NVG), is an optoelectronic device that allows visualization of images in low levels of light, improving the user's night vision.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)

The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War, also known as the Second Brazzaville-Congolese Civil War, was the second of two ethnopolitical civil conflicts in the Republic of the Congo which lasted from 5 June 1997 to 29 December 1999.

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Rocket launcher

A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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RPG-18

The RPG-18 Mukha (translit) is a Soviet short-range, disposable light anti-tank rocket launcher designed in 1972.

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RPG-26

The RPG-26 Aglen is a disposable anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher developed by the Soviet Union. RPO-A Shmel and RPG-26 are military equipment introduced in the 1980s.

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RPO Rys

RPO "Rys" (Russian: реактивный пехотный огнемёт «Рысь» (РПО «Рысь»), Rocket-propelled Infantry Flamethrower "Lynx") is a napalm rocket-propelled grenade launcher classified as flamethrower by Russian military. RPO-A Shmel and RPO Rys are flamethrowers of the Soviet Union, incendiary rocket launchers and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Russian NBC Protection Troops

The Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence of the Russian Armed Forces (Voyska radiatsionnoy khimicheskoy i biologicheskoy zashchiti Vooruzhyonn'kh sil Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Voyska RKhB zashchiti VS RF)) are an organisation designed to reduce the losses of the Ground Forces and ensuring their combat tasks assigned during operations in conditions of radioactive, chemical and biological contamination, as well as at enhancing their survivability and protection against high-precision and other weapons.

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Russo-Ukrainian War

The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014.

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Second Chechen War

The Second Chechen War is also known as the Second Chechen Campaign (Втора́я чече́нская кампа́ния) or the Second Russian Invasion of Chechnya from the Chechen insurgents' point of view.

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Soviet Armed Forces

The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPO-A_Shmel

Also known as MGK Bur, RPO PDM-M, RPO flamethrower, RPO-A, RPO-A Shmel (Bumblebee), RPO-M Shmel-M.

, Thermobaric weapon, TNT, United States Army, War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War in Donbas, War in Iraq (2013–2017), Warhead, Wood auger.

RPO-A Shmel, the Glossary

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See also

Cold War weapons of the Soviet Union

Flamethrowers of the Soviet Union

Incendiary rocket launchers

Rocket-propelled grenade launchers

Thermobaric weapons

References