Russian defense company Rostec is developing a successor to the TOS-1A thermobaric 220-millimeter rocket artillery system. The Russian Army currently has two heavy flamethrower systems with different characteristics and capabilities.

Russia's defense industry is further developing these projects and is working on a new project called Tos-3 “Dragon” “So far it has gone through the development phase, and the construction of a prototype has already been reported,” writes the Russian magazine Topwar. “Of course all weapons are terrible, but if there is a bullet or a fragment, like with explosives, you at least have the opportunity to treat it medically,’ international law expert Ben Saul from the University of Sydney told the Australian television station ABC. ‘This is a weapon that, when it explodes, releases its explosives, or fuel, and creates an overpressure effect that results in a much larger detonation and is truly devastating because of the shock wave," Jean-Marie Collin on aerosol bombs.