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The so-called Home Guard flamethrower was not a flamethrower in the conventional sense, but a small, semimobile flame trap. From about September 1940, 300 Home Guard units received a kit of parts provided by the PWD - a 50 to 65 imp gal (230 to 300 L) barrel, 100 ft (30 m) of hose, a hand pump, some connective plumbing, and a set of do-it ...
Hay flamethrower 1917 United Kingdom: Home Guard Flamethrower: 1940 United Kingdom: The Home Guard Flamethrower stored fuel in a barrel mounted on hand cart that was light enough to be wheeled along roads and possibly over fields to where it was needed. A hand-operated pump would give a flame of up to sixty feet (18 m) in length. Kleinflammenwerfer
A flame fougasse (sometimes contracted to fougasse and may be spelled foo gas [2]) is a type of mine or improvised explosive device which uses an explosive charge to project burning liquid onto a target. [3] The flame fougasse was developed by the Petroleum Warfare Department in Britain as an anti-tank weapon during the invasion crisis of 1940.
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 ...
A US soldier holds up a German static flamethrower, probably an Abwehrflammenwerfer 42. An Abwehrflammenwerfer 42 displayed at Elizabeth Castle, Jersey, 2017. The Abwehrflammenwerfer 42 was a German static defensive flamethrower, flame fougasse or flame mine used during the Second World War.
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.
Safety guidelines for civilian use of flamethrowers, published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2018. The United States became party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international treaty which partially restricts the military use of incendiary weapons, including flamethrowers, in 1983. [3]
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