"Flamethrowers: Five Facts You Probably Didn’t Know" Topic

"During the ancient wars, the sky was often heavy with thick dark smoke as flaming arrows rained from all sides of the battle.

The Greeks took the use of fire to a new level during the siege at Constantinople by using rudimentary projectors to shoot short bursts of flaming oil at the enemy fleets. The catastrophic physical and psychological effects of this tactic birthed the legacy of Greek fire.

As the years passed, the use of fire in warfare continued to see technological advancements until the emergence of a weapon with a more sophisticated and more controllable stream of fire, which became known as a flamethrower…."
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I think the most interesting infantry flamethrowers were the Soviet ones, made to look like a basic rifle from the front.

I used one at Fort Hood with my infantry squad from the cavalry platoon. A great amount of nervousness was felt. I did the squirt then light tech. Not flame on.