Molotov cocktail
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A Molotov cocktail is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a fuse. It is typically a glass bottle filled with flammabl
Vyacheslav Molotov (1945)
Match-style fuses for a Swedish, military grade Molotov cocktail "Brännflaska"
Finnish soldiers in the Winter War. Tanks were destroyed with satchel charges and Molotov cocktails. The bottle has storm matches instead of a rag for a fuse.
A squad of UK Home Guard soldiers training to defend a street with 'Molotov cocktail' petrol bombs (March 1941)
Molotov bread basket
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The RRAB-3, nicknamed the Molotov bread basket, was a Soviet-made droppable bomb dispenser that combined a large high-explosive charge with a cluster of incendiary bombs. It was used against the citie
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…airborne humanitarian food deliveries" for their "starving" neighbours. As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet incendiary cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" (Finnish: Molotovin leipäkori) in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack and destroy…
A Soviet RRAB-3 "Molotov bread basket" from which bombs were spread.