The M2 flamethrower utilized by Allied force during WWII shew to be a devastatingly good weapon against bunkers — and Axis head . However , walking around a firefight with a napalm - sate backpack and an in force range of 20 m is a great way to become a crispy critter . So the US military develop the M202 FLASH rocket - propelled flamethrower .
The M202A1 FLame Assault SHoulder weapon system ( ostentation ) is a four - shot rocket launcher armed with incendiary M74 rockets . It is designed to perform the same function as the M2 , only better . The FLASH boasts five metre the range of conventional fire throwers at only half the weight . It ’s also extremely accurate , able of lob a rocket through bunker larboard , machine hired gun nests , foxholes and into other bastioned positions up to 750 meters ( 820 yards ) aside . The system is capable of enkindle rocket severally , at a rate of one per second , or all four simultaneously . The FLASH ’s four M74 66 millimetre rounds are loaded with a M235 Incendiary payload backpack with over a Cypriot pound of TPA each . TPA — thickened pyrophoric agent — is like napalm , only better .
Made from triethylaluminum and polyisobutylene , TPA is some tight shit . When exposed to aura , the triethylaluminum spontaneously combusts and burns at a white hot 1200 degree C ( 2192 degree F ) . That ’s hot enough to burn people , unarmoured vehicle , buildings , bunkers , and anything else unlucky enough to be within the M74 ’s 20 m blast radius . As such , the M202 proves quite effective at suppressing everything from advancing troops to RPG land site to armoured vehicles — without put the manipulator in the job of flaming .
While the M202 significantly outperform its predecessor , the FLASH is not without its own shortcomings . Only one 27 - pound , two foot - long launcher was delegate to each rifle platoon . This meant that one penis had to contain it as well as his rifle . In gain , the ammo itself had a foul habit of setting itself off when being load . Due to these drawback , the M202 has generally neutralise away in armoury since the mid 1980s . Although the FLASH has been carried by soldiery in the latest conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan .
[ Wikipedia – Guns . Ru – Wikia – InetresImage : Commando ( 1985 ) ]
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