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A Zippo lighter is a reusable metal lighter produced by Zippo Manufacturing Company of Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] Thousands of different styles and designs have been made since their introduction in 1933, including military versions for specific regiments.
Ronson Consumer Products Corporation was formerly based in Somerset, New Jersey.It is a producer of lighters and lighter accessories.. Zippo Manufacturing Company currently owns the related brands in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and continues to produce Ronson lighters and Ronsonol fuel.
A flame tank is a type of tank equipped with a flamethrower, most commonly used to supplement combined arms attacks against fortifications, confined spaces, or other obstacles.
The flame thrower tank M67 (also known as M67 "Zippo", [1] nicknamed after a popular brand of cigarette lighter) is an American flame tank that was briefly used by the U.S. Army, and later by the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It was the last flamethrower tank used in American military service.
Zippo Monitor in action in Vietnam. In mid-1967, when the Vietcong constructed bunkers capable of withstanding 40mm rounds, RIVFLOT 1 began exploring the idea of deploying flamethrowers on riverboats as a potential bunker buster. On 4 October, the M132A1, an Army flamethrower vehicle, was shoehorned into an ATC. Commanders hoped the M132A1’s ...
A modified version, the Zippo boat, carries flamethrowers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Another modified version, the LCM-8 Mod 2 , was used to fulfill command, personnel, salvage, and firefighting functions. There is also another version with an aluminum hull.
W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company is an American manufacturer of traditional pocket knives, fixed blades/sporting knives, kitchen knives, limited edition commemoratives and collectibles.
The M132 armored flamethrower (nicknamed "Zippo") [1] was a United States built flamethrower armed variant of the M113 and M113A1 armored personnel carriers developed in the early 1960s. Approximately 350 were accepted into service.