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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.
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 first vehicle to be incorporated was a flame tank built from a Caterpillar Twenty Two Tractor. The vehicle was developed by lieutenant Reynaldo Ramos de Saldanha da Gama, with help from the Polytechnic school. It was built from riveted steel plates, with a rotating flamethrower turret, and four 7mm Hotchkiss machineguns mounted on the hull ...
The flame thrower was mounted through the assistant driver's hatch alongside their tank periscope which meant that the bow machine gun could be retained. 176 were produced. [18] Word spread that one of these tanks lost a crew when the flamethrower nozzle took a hit. [8] The Marine Corps did not want this design. [18] H1 periscope [18] H1A ...
M132 armored flamethrower– A full-tracked self-propelled flame thrower carrier, with small turret carrying an M10-8 flamethrower and coaxial M73 machine gun, plus fuel and pressure tanks in rear of hull. M132A1 – modified M113A1s rather than M113s. M163 – the Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS) is an M168 anti-aircraft gun mounted on the ...
Some KV-8S were created by mating the KV-1S hull with a KV-8 turret, while the remainder had a KV-1S turret with ATO-42 flamethrower but lacked the coaxial machine gun. KV-8S: 1942 Soviet Union: A KV-1S fitted with the ATO-42 flame-thrower (improved version of ATO-41) in the turret. In order to accommodate the new weapon, the 76.2mm gun was ...
M132 armored flamethrower. Variant equipped with a turret armed with a flamethrower and a .50 caliber machine gun. These vehicles are no longer used by the U.S. Army. Vehicles upgraded to A1 standard were known as "M132A1s". Israeli M150 with Improved TOW (I-TOW) anti-tank guided missile launcher. M150
TOS-1 Buratino (Russian: тяжёлая огнемётная система [ТОС-1], romanized: Tyazhyelaya ognemyetnaya sistema [TOS-1], Heavy Flamethrower System) is a Soviet 220 mm 30-barrel (original system, Object 634 or TOS-1M) or 24-barrel (Object 634B or TOS-1A Solntsepyok) multiple rocket launcher capable of using thermobaric warheads, mounted on a T-72 / T-90 tank chassis.