2020年11月9日 · Curiously they also used Wasp flame projectors, ie the same flamethrower mounted in the Churchill but installed in a Bren carrier for mobility. Normal Bren carriers have less armour than a spam tin, these things got upgraded applique armour that bounced 20mm shot.

2011年12月24日 · The Byzantines invented a primitive flamethrower during the 7th century AD, but do you know that the ancient Chinese also invented a primitive flamethrower during the 10th century AD? It was the Chinese double-piston pump naphtha flamethrower. The first use of flamethrowers in Chinese warfare...

2011年2月22日 · One of the great gems of studying ancient history and reading the ancient authors is coming upon something that seems curiously out of place. Particularly, in the fourth book of Thucydides' account of the Peloponessian war, he describes what sounds eerily like a flamethrower, built by the...

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2017年2月21日 · You may remember my boy as the kid that CHASED the half track (on foot) at the first flame thrower shoot. We used to pay his older sister to keep him from falling asleep in the car because holy HELL if he recharged before we got home he'd never go to sleep.

2012年8月15日 · Flame throwers suffer from the problem of short range and the Byzantine experience told us that its effect is only maximized in naval battles, more specifically in narrow straits because of its unique ability to burn on water. As gunpowder became more widespread in Chinese warfare, the flamethrower gradually lost its usefulness.

2021年3月30日 · No, you can't set a wooden structure alight that easily! Fire arrows did exist, but they are a small flame and quite brief. Maybe good enough for a thatched roof, but not a big slab of wood. For that you need a pile of kindling and smaller pieces of wood, to get a good fire going, and in a while, yes, the structure may be burning.

2017年10月28日 · I read, decades ago, of when a Byzantine envoy to the Calipa at Baghdad were show unites of the armed forces, including an elephant which harried an early flame thrower on its back. Keep Joined Jan 2021

2012年8月15日 · Here is a very good History Channel documentary "Twisted Weapons of the East". The British historians tested various ancient Chinese, Persian, and ancient Indian weapons, and most of them proved to be effective.

2019年6月16日 · Been to flame thrower events, airshows, reenactments, shooting ranges, you name it- it's been swabbed by TSA because what the f*** wouldn't they (I'm 10/10 on swabbings btw) and I've never had an issue.