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The Department of Tank Design preferred the Churchill, which was the infantry tank successor to the Valentine, as a basis for further work. [1] The General Staff decided a flamethrower based on the Churchill using the Petroleum Warfare Department's design was required. The main armament of the tank was to be retained.
The Churchill Crocodile was a flamethrower tank which replaced the hull machine gun with a flamethrower and towed an armoured fuel trailer. Churchills were converted to "Kangaroo" armoured personnel carriers by removing the turret from Churchills.
Churchill AVRE with fascine on tilt-forward cradle. This particular example is a post-WW2 AVRE on the MK VII chassis. Proposed by a Canadian engineer as a result of experience from the Dieppe Raid, [2] the Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) was a Churchill Mark III or IV equipped with the "Mortar, Recoiling Spigot, Mark II" (or Petard), a spigot mortar [a] that throws the 230 mm (9.1 in ...
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.
The Churchill Crocodile was a Churchill tank modified by the fitting of a flame-thrower in place of the hull machine gun. An armoured trailer, towed behind the tank, carried 400 Imperial gallons (1,800 litres) of fuel. The flamethrower had a range of over 120 yards (110 metres), far greater than man-portable units.
The PWD worked on a flamethrower for the Churchill infantry tank. [133] Work was initially slow because priority was given to the Wasp and there is a suggestion that early work on the Crocodile was unofficial.
The first tanks were designated for the CB-H1 flamethrower. [6] However, the Seabees quickly made a change that greatly improved their design with the CB-H2. That flamethrower had a range of 150 yards, the turret could rotate 270°, and a 300 gal. napalm reservoir. Eight of these tanks were produced for the Marines on Iwo Jima. [6]
The British hardly used their man-portable systems, relying on Churchill Crocodile tanks in the European theatre. These tanks proved very effective against German defensive positions, and caused official Axis protests against their use. [citation needed] This flamethrower could produce a jet of flame exceeding 140 metres (150 yd). There are ...