‘Devil’s Pipe’: Russian National Guardsmen to Tote Rocket Flamethrowers © Sputnik/ Evgeniy Biyatov 15:38 06.05.2016(updated 15:52 06.05.2016) Get short URL http://sputniknews.com/russia/20160506/1039187434/russia-flamethrower-features.html Russia’s Interior Ministry has purchased 120 Shmel portable thermobaric flamethrowers for the newly created Russian National Guard, Gazeta.ru online newspaper wrote. The Shmel (Bumblebee) portable flame rocket launchers were used by Soviet troops in Afghanistan and by Russian troops […]