No 3 Incendiary Bottle

No.3 Fire Bottle

The Red Army has incorporated into its arsenal "Molotov cocktails" after the experience of conflict with the Japanese, Poles in 1939 and especially the Finns in the Winter War. Stavka (Headquarters) in 1941 issued a special orders for the for the Ministry of food industry to implement without delay the production of anti-tank incendiary shells in glass bottles ordinary type. The armament of the Red Army is deployed incendiary bottle 1) is spontaneously flammable liquid KS and 2) offering a mixture of N01. Spontaneously flammable mixture KS developed in early August 1941 N. V. Koshkin and his collaborators A. Kachurin and I. Solodovnik. It consisted of a mixture of carbon disulphide, white phosphorus and sulfur. Was produced in special factory NIUF in Saratov. The combustible mixture. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 developed even before the war in Saratov as mixtures based on a base of concentrated waste gasoline were originally designed for use in the flamethrower.

Incendiary bottles with flammable mixtures N01 is closed ordinary cork for burnt mixture served phosphoric vial inserted into the ignition of the mixture in a bottle that ignites the mixture after breaking a bottle encounters obstacles (tank, armored car, etc.). For safe use of ignition cylinder of the first type in winter operations at low air temperatures are used several different types of mixtures:

Mixture marks KS-Z (winter) vzněcující with temperatures up to - 400 C A mixture of brand VKS-Z (winter viscous) vzněcující to temperature -400 C Mixture marks KS-O) autumn solvent) vzněcující to temperature-200C A mixture of brand VKC-O (serious autumn solvent) vzněcující to temperature -200 C A mixture of brand KS-B (petrol) vzněcující to temperature-300C

In autumn 1941, a military engineer K. M. Saldadze of the NKVD developed a concentrated mixture BGS (Бензольная Головка + Сольвент or Боевая Горючая Смесь). For the production are use the diesel fractions, waste resulting from the production of gasoline. BGS mixture was introduced in January 1942 into the arms of the Red Army, originally for use in flame throwers, but eventually became widely used to meeting Molotov cocktails. The ignition of flammable mixture of NO. 1, No.. 2, no. 3 and BGS was used the fuse, who consisted from a glass ampoule, containing sulfuric acid, Berthelot salt and powdered sugar. Further for the Molotov cocktails use ignitor of designer A. T. Kuchina, where the flammable liquid is mixed with sulfuric acid and coated the outside of the bottle of paper soaked in a mixture of chlorate and powdered sugar. After breaking bottles and mixing all the elements were flammable ignition. In the Tula arms factory to initiate ignition cylinder constructed GA Korobov mechanical percussion igniter, using the ignition of flammable mixtures Blank cartridge rifle 7.62 mm Mosin or two 7.62 mm pistol ammunition Nail TT. These anti-tank incendiary devices 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