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The L3 Lf flame tank was a CV-33 or CV-35 tankette with a flamethrower operating from the machine gun mount. In the Northern Africa Theatre, the L3 Lf flame tank found little to no success. [52] An L6 Lf flametank was also developed using the L6/40 light tank platform.
A KV-1 fitted with the ATO-41 flame-thrower in the turret, beside a machine gun. In order to accommodate the new weapon, the 76.2mm gun was replaced with a smaller 45 mm Gun M1932, though it was disguised to look like the standard 76 mm (The cannon was placed inside a 76 mm tube).
The Flame Thrower, Auxiliary, M3 entered service as a vehicle-mounted flamethrower, featuring a different ignition system from the man-portable ones. The Manifold, Portable Flame Thrower, E4 entered service as World War II ended. It was a manifold line able to connect multiple flamethrower packs and featured an extended E10R1 gun group. [11]
In the same year, The Boring Company introduced a model of flamethrower, of weaker power than the two models introduced by other companies in 2015, named the Not-A-Flamethrower. [6] This flamethrower brought increased attention to the more powerful flamethrowers produced by Throwflame and Ion Productions Team, which both told the Los Angeles ...
The M8 flamethrower, officially designated: Flame Thrower Portable One-Shot, M8, was a single-shot flamethrower briefly adopted into U.S. service by airborne troops, but was never mass produced. [2] During the end of World War II, the Chemical Corps became interested in improving the man-portable flamethrower concept. [3]
Development of the "L3 Lf" (Lancia fiamme, "flamethrower") flame tank, based on the L3 tankette, began in 1935. The flamethrower nozzle replaced one of the machine guns, and the flame fuel was carried in an armoured trailer towed by the vehicle. [1] Later versions had the fuel carried in a box-shaped tank mounted above the L3's engine compartment.
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.
The Livens Projector was created by Captain William Livens of the Royal Engineers. [8] Livens designed a number of novel weapons, including a large-calibre flame thrower, to engulf German trenches in burning oil, that was deployed at the Somme in 1916.