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Several instances of the Not-A-Flamethrower have been seized during seizures of illegal drugs and weapons by law enforcement, both in the United States and Canada. [7] Improvised flamethrowers, described as based on instructions related to the Not-A-Flamethrower, have also been seized from far-right extremists in the United States. [8]
The English word flamethrower is a loan-translation of the German word Flammenwerfer, since the modern flamethrower was invented in Germany. The first flamethrower, in the modern sense, is usually credited to Richard Fiedler. He submitted evaluation models of his Flammenwerfer to the German Army in 1901. The most significant model submitted was ...
The LPO-50 (Lyogkiy Pyekhotnyy Ognyemyot (Легкий Пехотный Огнемет), "Light Infantry Flamethrower") is a Soviet flamethrower.. Developed in 1953 to replace the ROKS-2/3 flamethrowers used during World War Two, [1] it was kept in the inventory well into the 1980s.
One theory of how gunpowder came to Europe is via the Silk Road; another holds that it arrived during the Mongol invasion in the first half of the 13th century. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] English Privy Wardrobe accounts list ribaldis , a type of cannon, in the 1340s, and siege guns were used by the English at the Siege of Calais (1346–47) .
The first combat-ready flamethrower tanks appeared in the early 1930s: KhT-27, KhT-26 and a number of others - in the USSR, CV3 LF - in Italy. Before the start of World War II b more than 1,300 flamethrower tanks of various types were produced by Soviet industry. [8] By the mid-1930s, the first combat use of flamethrower tanks took place.
Some, though, purchase a flamethrower for the thrill of it. In 2018, Elon Musk sold over 20,000 flamethrowers (at $500 a pop) on the day of the product’s launch on his Boring Company website.
United States Marines demonstrate an M2 flamethrower (2012) The M2 flamethrower was an American, man-portable, backpack flamethrower that was used in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The M2 was the successor to the M1 and M1A1 flamethrowers. Although its burn time was around 7 seconds long, and the flames were effective around ...
The M2 flamethrower (M2-2) was an American man portable backpack flamethrower that was used in World War II. It was the successor to the M1 and M1A1 flamethrowers. M9 flamethrower: 1960 United States: The M9 flamethrower was an American man portable backpack flamethrower that was used in the Vietnam War. It was lighter and easier to pack than ...