Tags: Weapon.
The RPO-A Shmel (Rus. РПО-А Шмель) (Bumblebee) is a man-portable rocket launcher although it is classified as a flamethrower (Rus. Реактивный Пехотный Огнемет) by the manufacturer KBP Tula.The Shmel is designed produced and exported by the Russian Federation and previously by the Soviet Union. It entered service with the Soviet Armed Forces at the end of the 1980s as the successor for the RPO Rys.
