A separate battalion consisted of two KV-8 companies (10 tanks) and one OT-34 company (11 tanks). Organizational flamethrower tanks KV-8 were part of the individual flamethrower tank battalions and individual flamethrower tank brigades. The formation of flamethrower battalions began in the summer of 1942, immediately after the arrival of new machines from the factory. Attacking the field defense, flamethrower tanks tried to approach the trenches and, turning around, carried out flame throwing along the trenches. When attacking heavily fortified firing points, concentrated fire was required, and sometimes the first shot was fired without igniting the jet, igniting the fire with a second shot - this was how a more reliable defeat was ensured and less of the mixture burned in flight. During the offensive, flamethrower tanks were usually located in line of battle behind the linear tanks, and when approaching the targets of attack (fortifications, houses, etc.), they advanced and destroyed their assigned targets with flame throwing, burning out manpower from the buildings. Thanks to the enormous psychological impact, they were widely used on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War to suppress infantry and break through enemy fortifications, densely saturated with anti-tank weapons.įlame-throwing tank units were mainly used in the attack of fortified lanes and settlements, attached to the rifle units.
During the war years in the Red Army flamethrower and tank units and units were part of the armored and mechanized troops.
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