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No 3 Incendiary Bottle
The Red Army incorporated into its arsenal "Molotov cocktails" after the experience of conflict with the Japanese, the Poles in 1939, and especially the Finns in the Winter War. Stavka (Headquarters) in 1941 issued a special order for the Ministry of food industry to implement without delay the production of anti-tank incendiary shells in glass bottles of ordinary type. The armament of the Red Army was deployed incendiary bottle 1) is spontaneously flammable liquid KS and 2) offering a mixture of No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. Spontaneously flammable mixture KS was developed in early August 1941 by N. V. Koshkin and his collaborators, A. Kachurin and I. Solodovnik. They were produced in the special factory NIUF in Saratov. The combustible mixture. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 was developed even before the war in Saratov as mixtures based on a base of concentrated waste gasoline were originally designed for use in flamethrowers. The mechanical percussion igniter was constructed in the Tula arms factory by G. A. Korobov, which was used for the ignition of the combustible mixture cartridges, ether a single 7.62x54mmR round or two 7.62x25mm Tokarev pistol rounds. These anti-tank incendiary devices were left in its arsenal, even long after World War II.
The Incendiary Bottle can be seen in the following:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dnieper Line: Love and War | Soviet soldiers | No.3 Model | 2009 |